Re: my take on Kodak downfall

From	Dale <dale20111942yllek@hushmail.com>
Newsgroups	sci.engr.color, sci.image.processing, rec.photo.darkroom, rec.photo.digital, comp.soft-sys.matlab
Subject	Re: my take on Kodak downfall
Date	2014-02-10 17:52 -0500
Organization	Dale
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On 02/10/2014 01:36 PM, nospam wrote:
> yep. kodak pioneered digital photography and knew it one day would
> replace film, but management didn't want to do anything to impact the
> revenue from film. very stupid.

for the record I worked in R&D as a systems engineer

it really wasn't the money, it was the people

Rochester's nickname is "smug-town"

existing connection circles prevailed over performance and even 
organizational responsibility

there were all kinds of groups vying too do the new stuff

film had the money, film people got the careers

remember this is entertainment technology careers for the most part and 
entertaining work as opposed to necessity work, fun prevailed too

the last job I had was hybrid systems integration on the film side

we couldn't have the word integration in the name of our group, since 
there was an equipment group was responsible for integration,, but we 
got the budgets and careers, while the equipment people had "jobs" doing 
not much

if it weren't an entertainment business that didn't really matter too 
much, in much cases, the money and performance would have prevailed

there is your business case study

this was a publicly held company, public means socialism whether you 
think so or not, and the public suffered, there needs to be better law 
for socialized business

private companies can set pecking orders however you want

socialized companies have a trust, and pecking orders other than by 
performance should be called anti-trust, in fact I can't think of any 
other anti-trust that is worse

-- 
Dale

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my take on Kodak downfall Dale <dale20111942yllek@hushmail.com> - 2014-02-10 00:28 -0500
  Re: my take on Kodak downfall "Barry Williams" <barry.r.williamsnospam@saic.com> - 2014-02-10 11:17 +0000
  Re: my take on Kodak downfall nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2014-02-10 07:42 -0500
    Re: my take on Kodak downfall Dale <dale20111942yllek@hushmail.com> - 2014-02-10 07:55 -0500
      Re: my take on Kodak downfall nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2014-02-10 13:36 -0500
    Re: my take on Kodak downfall nospam@nospam.com (Paul Ciszek) - 2014-02-10 15:55 +0000
      Re: my take on Kodak downfall Michael Black <et472@ncf.ca> - 2014-02-10 13:53 -0500
  Re: my take on Kodak downfall Bowser <idont@think.so> - 2014-02-10 09:04 -0500
    Re: my take on Kodak downfall Martin Brown <|||newspam|||@nezumi.demon.co.uk> - 2014-02-10 18:13 +0000
      Re: my take on Kodak downfall nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2014-02-10 13:36 -0500
        Re: my take on Kodak downfall Martin Brown <|||newspam|||@nezumi.demon.co.uk> - 2014-02-10 20:59 +0000
          Re: my take on Kodak downfall nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2014-02-10 16:31 -0500
      Re: my take on Kodak downfall Dale <dale20111942yllek@hushmail.com> - 2014-02-10 14:13 -0500
        Re: my take on Kodak downfall nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2014-02-10 14:52 -0500
          Re: my take on Kodak downfall Dale <dale20111942yllek@hushmail.com> - 2014-02-11 08:53 -0500
          Re: my take on Kodak downfall PeterN <peter.newnospam@verizon.net> - 2014-02-13 07:21 -0500
            Re: my take on Kodak downfall nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2014-02-13 17:38 -0500
              Re: my take on Kodak downfall PeterN <peter.newnospam@verizon.net> - 2014-02-13 19:44 -0500
                Re: my take on Kodak downfall nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2014-02-13 20:31 -0500
        Re: my take on Kodak downfall Martin Brown <|||newspam|||@nezumi.demon.co.uk> - 2014-02-10 20:44 +0000
          Re: my take on Kodak downfall "J. Clarke" <jclarkeusenet@cox.net> - 2014-02-10 22:01 -0500
            Re: my take on Kodak downfall Dale <dale20111942yllek@hushmail.com> - 2014-02-11 08:54 -0500
    Re: my take on Kodak downfall nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2014-02-10 13:36 -0500
      Re: my take on Kodak downfall Dale <dale20111942yllek@hushmail.com> - 2014-02-10 17:52 -0500
        Re: my take on Kodak downfall nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2014-02-10 18:20 -0500
          Re: my take on Kodak downfall Dale <dale20111942yllek@hushmail.com> - 2014-02-10 18:56 -0500
            Re: my take on Kodak downfall nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2014-02-10 20:01 -0500
              Re: my take on Kodak downfall Dale <dale20111942yllek@hushmail.com> - 2014-02-11 08:55 -0500
        Re: my take on Kodak downfall Dale <dale20111942yllek@hushmail.com> - 2014-02-10 18:20 -0500
        Re: my take on Kodak downfall Dale <dale20111942yllek@hushmail.com> - 2014-02-10 18:29 -0500
          Re: my take on Kodak downfall nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2014-02-10 20:01 -0500
            Re: my take on Kodak downfall Martin Brown <|||newspam|||@nezumi.demon.co.uk> - 2014-02-11 08:36 +0000
              Re: my take on Kodak downfall nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2014-02-11 11:56 -0500
  Re: my take on Kodak downfall Alan Browne <alan.browne@FreelunchVideotron.ca> - 2014-02-10 17:00 -0500

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