If you look at the impact the new logos are supposed to cause (that is
try to look at it from the corner office perspective ;P ), it would be
nothing short of profound. Therefore, many execs with 7+ digit
salaries, not counting the bonus, spent their time commissioning,
considering, discussing, and approving new designs. Since INTC is a
global operation, it would not be a stretch to suggest that some
participants were whisked into the meetings by private/chartered jets.
It is also quite a possibility that some top-notch consultants were
involved. I am not even counting the small fry (graphics designers,
assistants, secretaries, etc.) that spent their time and effort on
meeting preparations, communication facilitation (the higher the execs
climb, the less likely they read their own email themselves), and so
on. Don't forget that such high level meetings are usually served by
very fine catering (I know this because, like other rank and file
employees, I sometimes got to participate in finishing the leftovers
from such events). In other words, the price tag dor these logos
could easily be millions, if we account for all the administrative
expences. $1m pays for roughly 5 very good engineering consultants
for a year at the rate of $100/hr 1099.
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This is like another thread that is being discussed in one of the
Debian user mail lists. On of the posters mentioned that in his
experience that in major big compainies, have no appreciation for the
engineers, or the little folk.
All one has to do is look to HP as an example, they cut and cut, and
now the business is in a really bad situation. After all do you really
think that mangement will cut their jobs? I also read somewhere that if
someone outsources the top 10% of management, they could support like
30% of the lower workers.
All I can say is that management needs more training, if I were an
engineer with a phd, I would demand that every sale's person or
mangement call me Dr. It's kind of funny that a lot of management has
less education then the average dedicated technology worker.
I would also demand tolerance classes, I would put mangement through
all those classes, and maybe even have them see just what all those
engineer's do, I bet it would be an under statement that a lot of time
they use, are for making reports for mangement that have no clue as to
the products they sell. Then I would commission a independant agency,
to do a detailed study of the company structure and see what could be
done to save money. Then do what the agency says, I bet it will be a
good start to a better company.
Of course if any mangement person is going to loose their job, they
will fight the report, and do anything to save their butts. All I can
say is keep up the good work Intel, the more you spend on lavish
meetings, and other mangement needs, a leaner more competive company
will do more with less. I do think that the game is up, I don't see how
marketing regardless of how good they are, will be able to stop all the
glowing reports, and business trends of the consumer. Just look at the
RackSpace reports, and Sun's reports, their seems to be a good report
talking about AMD chips all the time now. Seems that AMD is getting the
word of mouth, and building their market share as well.
Gnu_Raiz