On the other hand, the growth and continued positive actions
by the Sibelius leadership (even after having been purchased
by Avid) may only be showing that the only reason Finale was
the leader was because the only other competition was Score,
which isn't now and never has been the sort of versatile,
anybody-with-a-computer-can-use-it program which Finale and
Sibelius are. Encore gave it a run for its money for a
short while, but once that company went belly-up Encore has
never been anything for Coda/Net-4-Music/MakeMusic to worry
about. But once Sibelius arrived on the scene, Finale's
"we're the best" philosophy which didn't fully take into
account that it left off a phrase and should have been
"we're the best because we're the only one" hasn't worked as
a corporate motto. It should have changed into "We're the
best and we're going to stay the best because we'll define
the market."
Is that the CEO's responsibility? Sure, equally shared with
the president and the chairman of the board and all the
other directors. Of course, MakeMusic is such a relatively
small company, maybe the problem is that there are too many
directors all trying to have a say in what happens.
Chairman of the board and president and ceo? Who's really
in charge? Nobody knows, which makes it harder to pin blame
on anybody and also makes it harder to have any sort of
unified vision of corporate direction or product development.
It would be interesting to know what the ratio of directors
and officers to rank-and-file employees is.
David H. Bailey
Eric Dannewitz wrote:
Fairly complex? Not really. Is the CEO responsible for the focus of a
company? And it's products? And the quality of its products? If the
product isn't living up to expectations, you are not going to give a
free pass to the CEO and blame some employee who is actually coding the
product. You are going to blame the CEO for allowing the product to be
shipped out in the first place.
I for one would welcome change within MakeMusic. They have been behind
the curve (Sibelius) for the last bunch of years, and hopefully new
leadership will help them become the leader they once were.
shirling & neueweise wrote:
is the CEO responsible for these problems you have articulated? has he
contributed to the improvement or decline of the company or to the
product (i assume you are referring to finale) in your view? or is he
honestly dedicated to the product but bailing ship because of an
unresolvable pestilence in the development and marketing department
that will ultimately lead to the downfall of the company?
i don't know, your comments sound a bit simple to me, for a situation
that is surely fairly complex.
Perhaps the myopic vision that has been prevalent in the company will
finally be cured? Maybe they will fix bugs, listen to long time
users, address problems, add features people actually want?
Naw........I didn't think so either.........
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