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There’s different types of companies that benefit from different approaches. Engineer leaders tend to have more focus on long term and incremental building. Th
by xondono 5y ago
There’s different types of companies that benefit from different approaches.
Engineer leaders tend to have more focus on long term and incremental building. They consider the engineering departments to be the heart of the company.
MBAs tend to focus more energy on sales and marketing, and they generally follow the “internalize profit centers, externalize cost centers” mantra. It’s not uncommon for engineering departments to get axed and externalized.
Semiconductor engineering, and specially computing products flourish i. The first scenario and suffer in the second.
- OrvalWintermute 5y agoI think what you wrote I found to relate to something I think about often - what is success? To an MBA, selling off all the IP, selling it off, divesting of key assets and leasing them back, while owning a portion of the relationship at the end is success, treating sales as the most key part of the business process. To an engineer, in-sourcing, building up strong engineering, R&D, recruiting strong engineering talent, and optimizing product for tradeoffs, treating the output of products itself as the most key part of the business process. Lisa Su has done just that - if you create the best product based on the best engineering, the buyers will come.
- xondono 5y ago> if you create the best product based on the best engineering, the buyers will come. In some markets, absolutely. In others not so much.