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What are some typical examples of operational/logistics issues that less than great management might otherwise ignore?

• velcrovan 3y ago
  Developing (and frequently revising) complicated schemes for things like pricing, discounts, and sales commissions (does the accounting system even track the data required to do these calculations? what would it take for it to do so, and how much training and effort to enter and clean the data... you know what who cares!) Not noticing the steady stream of accounting people traipsing to and from your IT manager's office to ask *accounting* questions, rather than ask the controller...and then when the IT manager brings it up, still refusing to notice it... They ask for a web-based configure-to-order tool, so you mock up a quick-and-dirty but very fake interactive demo as a discussion piece to get them to answer questions and make decisions about how the thing should work. When you show it to them and talk about what it will take to develop the real thing, baffled looks followed by “wait, isn't this the real thing? It’s working fine already!” I could go on...all stuff from past lives