It says in the article it takes around two months, which is pretty bad.
There is no doubt a lot of improvement to be made to it, but going full digital and focusing on making it super duper fast is almost guaranteed to bring a whole host of other problems by going to the opposite extreme.
I've worked enough random jobs where we had a shitty, but workable system for some random task, and a new Exec with bright ideas came in and tried to fully automate and digitize it, only for that to be riddled with so many failures and problems we end up taking triple the time, losing mass productivity/profit due to failures, and just going back to the old system anyway. While said Exec cashes out and leaves us all holding the bag of fixing the mess.
Which is what I foresee happening based on what this guy is putting his focus on, not improving the system but making it shiny and futuristic and just like Apple.
I definitely understand where you are coming from, but as another poster summed up the current method just flat out needs to be changed, it just is untenable how ridiculous it is.
And...frankly if there is anyone that actually has a proper proven track record of actually fixing shit software side, I'd say Elon Musk has a decent one. Easy example would be twitter/X which runs remarkably well with less than half the staff it did. Hell, I think its had fewer outages (at least, per year) compared to before Elon acquired it.
That and Elon seems to know how to properly manage data engineers and guide them properly, so frankly if anyone can do it, its probably Elon.
The only way it could possible work out well at least at first is if the organization already had a real plan they wanted to do but just couldn't make the administrators do it.
It sounds like a lot of departments already knew what was wrong and how to fix it, but they'd have to fire thousands and couldn't.
It says in the article it takes around two months, which is pretty bad.
There is no doubt a lot of improvement to be made to it, but going full digital and focusing on making it super duper fast is almost guaranteed to bring a whole host of other problems by going to the opposite extreme.
I've worked enough random jobs where we had a shitty, but workable system for some random task, and a new Exec with bright ideas came in and tried to fully automate and digitize it, only for that to be riddled with so many failures and problems we end up taking triple the time, losing mass productivity/profit due to failures, and just going back to the old system anyway. While said Exec cashes out and leaves us all holding the bag of fixing the mess.
Which is what I foresee happening based on what this guy is putting his focus on, not improving the system but making it shiny and futuristic and just like Apple.
I definitely understand where you are coming from, but as another poster summed up the current method just flat out needs to be changed, it just is untenable how ridiculous it is.
And...frankly if there is anyone that actually has a proper proven track record of actually fixing shit software side, I'd say Elon Musk has a decent one. Easy example would be twitter/X which runs remarkably well with less than half the staff it did. Hell, I think its had fewer outages (at least, per year) compared to before Elon acquired it.
That and Elon seems to know how to properly manage data engineers and guide them properly, so frankly if anyone can do it, its probably Elon.
The only way it could possible work out well at least at first is if the organization already had a real plan they wanted to do but just couldn't make the administrators do it.
It sounds like a lot of departments already knew what was wrong and how to fix it, but they'd have to fire thousands and couldn't.