Sanity Rules
Two things happened today. Gary quit. I was wondering when he'd get around to it. I'll miss him, but I'm really happy for him.
I'd been hoping for the other thing to happen since before Thanksgiving. My Advanced Analytics department is being folded back into R&D, effective today, and is no longer a separate profit center. WHEE! Even if Gary hadn't quit, we were down to two people after a couple of retirements and Meilin left after only 7 months.
I was hired to be the media research director in R&D almost six years ago. We were ripped out of R&D three years ago and made a profit center. Back then, Analytics was a buzzword that made our CEO have grand visions of getting a piece of the consulting & analysis pie. It worked for a little while, but client funds for such things have vanished, and we morphed into programming, statistical modeling, and to some extent, quality assurance.
On a day to day basis, we interact with QA and the programmers. It made no sense to have us report to sales after my previous boss retired last summer. Sales doesn't understand what we do, let alone how to do it, so they can write up a sales proposal and figure out what to charge, but are useless at figuring out implementation.
Effective today, I went back to reporting to the guy who originally hired me. This is as it should be. I'm thrilled. It's mere coincidence that this happened the day Gary resigned. Our new CEO is the type to see right through the bull; nobody's going to be able to snow this guy. Apparently, this guy's got a really good reputation, and from what I can tell with my limited dealings with him, it's well deserved.
I'd been hoping for the other thing to happen since before Thanksgiving. My Advanced Analytics department is being folded back into R&D, effective today, and is no longer a separate profit center. WHEE! Even if Gary hadn't quit, we were down to two people after a couple of retirements and Meilin left after only 7 months.
I was hired to be the media research director in R&D almost six years ago. We were ripped out of R&D three years ago and made a profit center. Back then, Analytics was a buzzword that made our CEO have grand visions of getting a piece of the consulting & analysis pie. It worked for a little while, but client funds for such things have vanished, and we morphed into programming, statistical modeling, and to some extent, quality assurance.
On a day to day basis, we interact with QA and the programmers. It made no sense to have us report to sales after my previous boss retired last summer. Sales doesn't understand what we do, let alone how to do it, so they can write up a sales proposal and figure out what to charge, but are useless at figuring out implementation.
Effective today, I went back to reporting to the guy who originally hired me. This is as it should be. I'm thrilled. It's mere coincidence that this happened the day Gary resigned. Our new CEO is the type to see right through the bull; nobody's going to be able to snow this guy. Apparently, this guy's got a really good reputation, and from what I can tell with my limited dealings with him, it's well deserved.
posted by Admin at 7:50 PM
1 Comments:
What a reliehf, no? Having research or marketing report to sales NEVER works. I've always thought having a V.P., Sales and Marketing was stupid because they always hire a sales guy for that and they could care less how marketing operates as long as their bottom lines look good. But yeah for you! Sounds like work will be MUCH more pleasant now!
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