In conjunction with these decisions to drastically cut back the duplication of positions that were seen once the matrix team management structure was done away with, Mark Hurd looked at how disjointed the internal new product development processes and supporting systems were. Ironically for a computer technology company, Mark Hurd found many of the financial management systems had grown balkanized and separate from each other, with many of them not capable of sharing information and being integrated together (Fortt, 2008). He immediately began programs to gain greater control over these systems and the it processes that had allowed this level of disconnected development to happen over the long-term. Mark Hurd and his team analyzed all it projects and decided that the 85 data centers globally could be trimmed to just six state-of-the-art facilities running HP systems and software solutions (Burrows, 2006). He also found that over 1,200 it projects had been approved and competing for the same development resources. Hiring Randy Mott away from Wal-Mart, a CIO who has rockstar status in the it community to help sort out the systems challenges and problems led to rapid gains in information management strategies and system use as well (Veverka, 2007). Randy Mott was able to trim 784 separate databases to a single data warehouse while also assisting HP to attain...
Randy Mott was also able to trim the separate projects, many based on political agendas instead of market needs, down to 500 (Veverka, 2007). Clearly the Mark Hurd way of management was settling in.Iraq War - on Iraq and the U.S. Personal Narrative The drums of war once again echo in my ears. I am disgusted seeing Donald Rumsfeld on television defending the U.S. invasion of Iraq. CNN shows old footage of Rumsfeld shaking Saddam Hussein's hand, made in the late eighties when the U.S. was providing know-how for Saddam to build chemical weapons. I was five years old when we left the country,
Ayers (2000, p. 4) describes a supply chain as "Life cycle processes supporting physical, information, financial, and knowledge flows for moving products and services from suppliers to end-users." A supply chain can be short, as in the case of a cottage industry, or quite long and complex as in the manufacture, distribution, and sales of automobiles. In fact, the automobile supply chain has its origin in the mining of the
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