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Shipping is a conservative industry that's barely had to change to meet the digital revolution. It's not surprising it doesn't understand digital risk. Also, a
by renjimen 7y ago
Shipping is a conservative industry that's barely had to change to meet the digital revolution. It's not surprising it doesn't understand digital risk.
Also, as someone who used to work at Maersk, I can attest to the fact that for a Danish company it is extremely hierarchical. Decisions are not made by anyone with any technical competency.
- toomuchtodo 7y agoWhile unsurprising, this is deeply depressing.
- bjelkeman-again 7y agoI don’t think any sizeable company without a competent CTO and/or CIO will actually survive in the future.
- toomuchtodo 7y agoHopefully.
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- dredmorbius 7y agoSince shipping is quite literally where the risk management industry originated, this is ... a sad commentary on the state of said industry.
- boublepop 7y agoWhen the company decided to try out an agile software development approach, they redesigned some office landscapes to open plane type things with writable walls (and floors for some reason). Anyways, the designers wanted to use colors that weren’t the official company colors, in order to get approval for this the decision had to go all the way up through the hierarchy to senior executive management... for the color of the walls in an office... intended to foster agility.