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Why Can't Non-Tech Companies Do Tech Well?

posted by LaminatorX on Wednesday February 19 2014, @10:30PM   Printer-friendly
from the you-must-be-new-here dept.

Walzmyn writes:

"The company I work for is not a tech company. We are, however, a multi-national, multi-billion dollar company that claims to be the largest of our kind in three industries (and second largest in a 4th). And yet, our company network sucks. There is a mishmash of Citrix and SAP, multiple web-portals, and none of them work with each other. The several thousand non-technical people that work for this company are routinely asked to interface with this system and end up spending time with the helpdesk or with a supervisor looking over the shoulder for something that was supposed to be private.

I've heard of similar situations with other companies, so I wanted to ask the folks that live and breathe the tech sector this: Why can't a company this size get something so fundamental done right? Why can't they at least hire a third party to do it right for them?"

 
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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday February 20 2014, @05:26AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday February 20 2014, @05:26AM (#3286)

    Almost anything managed by a bureaucracy and not directly linked to success or failure of the company sooner or later gets a mess, and face it, your IT department is to a large extent a bureaucracy as well.