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- From: mfriedma@uucp (Michael Friedman)
- Subject: Re: Idiotic Japan Bashing
- Message-ID: <1992Dec28.170740.17094@oracle.us.oracle.com>
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- Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1992 17:07:40 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec28.080944.7939@pegasus.com> tleylan@pegasus.com (Tom Leylan) writes:
- >mfriedma@uucp (Michael Friedman) writes:
- > >jgacker@news.gsfc.nasa.gov (James G. Acker) writes:
- > >>but Japan supposedly has a 100-year enviro-industry plan
-
- >>I keep hearing this kind of bullshit. Does anyone out there really
- >>believe it? After all, can you imagine the hundred year plan that a
- >>business or company would have come up with in 1893?
-
- >Michael, May I suggest that your difficulty in believing any particular
- >thing is due to more to your upbringing and environment than anything
- >else.
-
- You can suggest it, but youy will find it hard to convince me.
-
- >You take a trip to Germany and you sit yourself down in a brewery that
- >has been brewing beer for 600 years and you get yourself a sense of
- >continuity.
-
- So? That does not mean that they can plan 100 years in advance.
-
- >You're trying to wedge your own definition of "100 year plan" into the
- >works and if you mean "show me where they say how many units they will
- >sell in 2092" then by all means there is no plan by your definition.
-
- >In short they plan to exist 100 years from now, and they plan to serve
- >their customers and to have employees and your stock certificates will
- >still be worth something.
-
- Well, if you call that a plan, then most companies and countries have
- thousand year plans, not hundred year plans. Of course, a plan that
- simple and with that little detail is so useless that you might as
- well not have it.
-
- A decent plan would identify key markets and technologies that the
- company should get into. For example, I have a 20 year plan for my
- part of Oracle and another for my career.
-
- The one for my department identifies one key technology and 3 key
- markets that we should become leaders in. I have target dates for
- beginning development of our flagship products for each and target
- dates for beginning sales in the US/Canada, the rest of the First
- World, the NICs, and the Third World. I have also identified the
- market segments which we can expect to sell into most easily and the
- companies which I think are most likely to compete with us. Despite
- its vagueness it is the most confidential document I have produced
- while at Oracle.
-
- The one for my career identifies three strategic products that I can
- position myself to build while at Oracle. Each succeeding one is
- larger than the last. Each will leverage sales of other Oracle
- products. Two of them will allow Oracle to enter new markets that we
- are not currently a player in using our existing products as a base,
- both to build the technology and to provide a receptive audience.
-
- Those are effective long term plans. I think your own description of
- a 100 year plan shows just how ludicrous a 100 year plan would have to
- be.
-
-
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