""" Everybody is (or should be) mad at Sales and Marketing for not selling more games. Well, Now We Have The Solution. Let's contract everything out. We are a

""" Everybody is (or should be) mad at Sales and Marketing for not selling more games. Well, Now We Have The Solution. Let's contract everything out. We are already contracting out hardware and game development. By contracting out the hardware, Engineering Management finally has the control it wants over costs, technology, and schedule. Of course, the hardware may need a few finishing touches for Testability and Manufacture- ability, but the Engineers will be happy to finish someone else's hardware, put it into production, and thereby contribute to this someone else's royalties. This has the added advantage that licensed product is not eligible for Bonus. By contracting out the game development, and making Marketing the main contact, Marketing can finally enforce their decisions on game play. (Do It My Way If You Want To Get Paid.) Perhaps they can do for game play what they did for Side Panel Graphics. I don't think we should stop there. Let's contract out Sound and Music so that the team (which is now Marketing) will get what it wants. Dittos for I.D., Mechanical, Harness, PCB, Publications, and Animation. Did I leave anyone out? Let's contract out Manufacturing to eliminate overhead (and unused Production Capacity). Or, we could deal with unused Production Capacity by having Manufacturing become a Contract Manufacturer for other companies. (Outside contracts always have priority over internal product, so internal product will have to be contracted out, anyway.) Finally, after having completed the total disintegration of the Company, we can contract out Management. Regards, Jedidiah (The Mad Prophet) """