At 6:13 AM -0400 10/14/06, dhbailey wrote:
David W. Fenton wrote:
[snip]
Why is it that everyone assumes the purchase of Sibelius by another
company means that Sibelius will be weakened? Isn't there a certain
synergy involved there? Why would a company purchase Sibelius and
then kill it off?
[snip]
I don't think it's so much a matter of the company intentionally
killing Sibelius off, but more a matter of people in charge who
haven't got a clue.
Just a couple of cases in point. The Deagan Percussion Co. was taken
over by some MBAs who were convinced that MBAs can run anything.
They fired the old guys who knew the business because they were being
paid too much, and hired youngsters who had no clue. Bingo: no
Deagan Co.
And when Baldwin moved from Cincinnati to wherever they are now, the
old guys who really knew how to build pianos took retirement rather
than move their families. Same result.
I'm not sure about the band instrument companies like Conn that used
to be in South Bend, but some of them--Conn in particular--took pride
in being so assembly-line oriented that less skilled workers could be
trained to produce the products. But the bottom line is that
companies whose product takes years of apprenticeship and intimate
knowledge to produce can't continue without that expertise. And new
management, as David points out, will never have the same goals or
quality control as old management did.
John
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