Re: Virtual LUG Speakers was->RE: Another AS/400/iSeries/i5 UserGroup bits the dust

"I wonder how a presentation on a good workflow system we use in Domino 
would go over?  Bring in your non developer people like your quality 
managers, engineering managers, etc.  What do you think?"

Bingo Rob - the keyword is MANAGERS. Until the upper level managers of the 
companies within the midrange world see the many values of what the i5 
platform has to offer to the future of their business, we in the trenches 
can only keep up with what their manager's ongoing concern is. 

The board of our LUG (NWOMUG) which went belly up at the beginning of this 
year, always discussed ways to try to attract managers since they make the 
decisions. But as always, they are too busy, overworked,  or in cost 
cutting mode to keep up with technology - and that is sad since we know 
there are many ways the technology can help the managers do a better job. 
True catch-22 and unfortunately, when we had top notch speakers from 
Common, or web conferences live from Rochester/Toronto, we still could 
only attract techies who loved the content but couldn't get the message 
through to management. (Just like Common can't get the marketing message 
through to IBM management.)

 

Regards, Jerry

Gerald Kern - MIS Project Leader
Lotus Notes/Domino Administrator
IBM Certified RPG IV Developer
The Toledo Clinic, Inc.
4235 Secor Road
Toledo, OH 43623-4299
Phone 419-479-5535
gkern@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx


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