On 14 Oct 2006 at 13:35, John Howell wrote: > 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.
Software is not at all the same thing as manufacturing musical instruments. > 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. Sometimes companies with bad management are purchased by companies with better management. I don't know Sibelius's past situation or the new management, but it's theoretically possible that the product will be better managed and marketed under new management than under the old. -- David W. Fenton http://dfenton.com David Fenton Associates http://dfenton.com/DFA/ _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
