RE: [Leica] Kodak to cut up to 6,000 jobs

["Don Dory" <dorysrus@mindspring.com>]

But Mehrdad, Kodak has been doing that for decades.  Twenty years ago
they were saying digital was the future.  Check out the annual report,
they have been buying companies for generations.  The problem is that
Kodak as an institution just does not make good decisions.  Film is the
cash cow so let's let all the really good chemists and coating engineers
go. (Read between the lines in the reports of the chemists who created
Xtol who are now RIF. Coating engineers trying to sell their services to
the competitors after being early retired.)  A lot of what Kodak used to
do best was eliminated as they cut the experienced employees with
decades of experience in the arcane of Kodak's bread and butter.

Don
dorysrus@mindspring.com

- -----Original Message-----
From: owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
[mailto:owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us] On Behalf Of
mehrdad-(kiakki.net)
Sent: Wednesday, July 23, 2003 6:55 PM
To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
Subject: RE: [Leica] Kodak to cut up to 6,000 jobs

Vision is seeing/knowing what's next so that you can prepare/plan to be
a
leader, reacting to the digital world is lack of vision.

Assuming in charge of product line....; NO. if anything I would like the
CEO
job. As the first order of business, I would buy  couple of companies to
help me strengthen the digital product line up (this is of course after
the
old ceo was fired for the lack of vision and bad sales, so digital is
going
strong and kodak needs to catch up). Consolidation of the old business
and
putting it in the harvest mode while expanding full speed with the
digital
world

PS

When there is shift in business model, you got to change/train employees
but
unfortunate most of the time you cut the old and hire new ones

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regards, mehrdad





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