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Salesforce is a full business app development platform with almost unmatched flexibility, fully hosted and programmable. CRM doesn’t really begin to cover it. This reads like I’m a zealot. I’m not. But there is nothing that I’ve seen that can do what it can do and, if you know how it works, you can leverage it for incredible time and efficiency savings for developing and deploying business apps.
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> Everytime I've been hired into an executive role How many times are we talking about here, like 2 or 20? And why did you end up leaving those roles?
2 times. First I left because of a disagreement on strategy after 2 years. The second I left because of mismanagement at the highest levels.
Also, you can see the humor of a company’s executive saying this right?
> The second I left because of mismanagement at the highest levels.
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This is classic new-hire behavior. Come in, shake things up by changing a big system to put their stamp on things, (no telling if productivity would’ve gone up if nothing had happened, e.g. company was already growing), then bounce to the next executive gig before the honeymoon wears off.
Do you you know why we say, that one should never "assume" ?
> [I’ve been an executive] 2 times. First I left because of a disagreement on strategy after 2 years. The second I left because of mismanagement at the highest levels.
I’ve looked like an ass before, but I think I did OK w/ my original comment.
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I heard moving into a new home and then immediately burning it down to camp in the back yard is great for the maximizing your Daily Steps KPI also. This conversation of "what I did":"what the outcome was":"what the goal was":"what the organization needs to win" seems a bit imprecise.
In my case, the upstream ERP was there for historical reasons and literally wasn’t used beyond a few reports. The old system wasn’t modified with the business as it grew. We obviously didn’t stay with excel :)
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I agree, it’s their business priorities which result in engineering that leads to bad software. What I’m saying is you can choose to not buy into one of those uber-programmable enterprise platforms and instead (let someone) build fast and user friendly specific software just for your needs. All of the customization and dynamic crap can go out of the window that way, which will allow engineers to make things fast and…
>What I’m saying is you can choose to not buy into one of those uber-programmable enterprise platforms and instead (let someone) build fast and user friendly specific software just for your needs. the problem is not everyone can afford a IT dept with software programmers that can build out custom software. If IT is not their core most companies seek out software that is already out there with somewhat decent reputati…
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2 times. First I left because of a disagreement on strategy after 2 years. The second I left because of mismanagement at the highest levels.
OK, I think this gives a pretty big grain of salt to your original comment. Also, you can see the humor of a company’s executive saying this right? > The second I left because of mismanagement at the highest levels.
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OK, I think this gives a pretty big grain of salt to your original comment. Also, you can see the humor of a company’s executive saying this right? > The second I left because of mismanagement at the highest levels.
If you dont understand the structure of danish corporations, then sure, I see how it could be seen as funny.
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Honestly most businesses think they need a lot of customization because they think they're oh-so-special, but in fact something like 1) would work great for them. I know, I've worked in consulting and built software for companies who would have been better off with an off-the-shelf solution.
Unless there is a product designed for the specific needs of their industry, then the 80% of their needs covered by a generic system still means 20% of their needs are in fact oh-so-special
This is a good article and history is Salesforce. Another shorter developer focused perspective: Salesforce is a relational database editor. You can create tables, columns, and relationships, app in a nice UI without writing code. You get automatic views and edit forms for records in the tables. And the whole thing is built on a platform where you can write custom sandboxed code to manipulate those records, or expose…
It always puts me in mind of Lotus Notes, another "no-code" system which users locked themselves into.
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It always puts me in mind of Lotus Notes, another "no-code" system which users locked themselves into.
God that was a horrible piece of software, and a terrible email client. http://hallofshame.gp.co.at/lotus.htm
One thing we never used Lotus for though was mail, calendar or contacts.