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Mike You hit the nail on the head. iSeries/SAP not withstanding - Corporate wisdom, if used in all areas of the company like it is in IT, would surely be the death knell of business as we know it. I was the IT manager of a fairly large company back in the 70s and found that nothing could be accomplished without months of meetings that generated memos, then memos that generated meetings, nothing productive was actually accomplished. I had systems and programming people with nothing to do. I suggested laying them off but was told that we had good people and would soon have proper direction. We never did. I got disgusted, resigned, and went off on my own as a consultant (have been since 1977). The majority of my accounts are smaller companies where the owner looks at things as though there are spending their own money, mostly a good thought, as they want accomplishment, not BS. I have several clients, owned by larger conglomerates, that are hog-tied by corporate nonsense. We had a situation about a month ago where corporate IT got wind of a change I made (as requested, and a great improvement) that generated a two page memo asking âhow this could happenâ?â to seven people with copies to at least another three on each. Give them something to do! The original company where I resigned is now bankrupt. My only advice is to keep the faith and do the best you can with what you have. Perhaps the board of directors should out-source top management to India instead of IT. Warren
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