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Why do you think this is so difficult?
Because hiring tech talent is hard. Especially when you don’t have much tech expertise yourself.
hy is it so hard to consistently find qualified individuals? Do most other industries experience this same problem at the same scale?
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Billable Hours! This is why contracts should be outcome based and not based on hours. I don't care if the solution takes you ten days, or 10 minutes, it's the outcome that matters.
Careful with that thought. This is a case where this was "gamed" by Accenture and Hertz was just clueless, but it can happen the other way around. (Unreasonable) outcome based, and the contracting firm gets stuck with an impossible, money-losing project. Or some unexpected thing happens and same result. There's a reason why billable hours is a thing.
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ERP implementations likely provided value because of the lack of bespoke systems, instead people standardized and gained efficiencies. That was the value I would guess. Outsourcing? Did it provide value? Maybe immediately on the books, enough to cook to hit the stock options and cash out. Could companies have built internally? In an ideal world that's definitely a yes. Amazon sucks in so many ways, but one thing they…
Thank you for yet another detailed reply. Reading the linked article all I could think was: Hertz doesn’t deserve to exist. It just seems like they’re a Frankenstein of 30 years of mediocre to poor decisions. Ultimately I think a lot of companies that use Accenture don’t deserve to exist, and ultimately will be outcompeted.
In the US, most "markets" are largely dominated by monopoly, duopoly, or cartel conditions, and thus rent extraction. Combined with the efficacy and returns of lobbying congress for market barriers and subsidies, most companies are entrenched.
There are so many reforms needed in the US, but breaking up monopolies, or just stopping mergers, would be task #1. Price, creativity, options, innovation, worker empowerment, amount of employment, wages, all improve with more companies, more options, and more competition.
I worked at a small company who bid on an RFP against Accenture back in 2000ish. We bid way lower than Accenture and we were already established at the state government agency with a great track record. I remember while the proposal evaluation process was happening, Accenture sent their proposed PM to the town where the agency was based and he literally bought a house there to show Accenture's commitment to the agenc…
Early .NET was basically Java, wasn't it? Java devs should have picked it up pretty easily.
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Thank you for yet another detailed reply. Reading the linked article all I could think was: Hertz doesn’t deserve to exist. It just seems like they’re a Frankenstein of 30 years of mediocre to poor decisions. Ultimately I think a lot of companies that use Accenture don’t deserve to exist, and ultimately will be outcompeted.
You assume an approximation of a free market. In the US, most "markets" are largely dominated by monopoly, duopoly, or cartel conditions, and thus rent extraction. Combined with the efficacy and returns of lobbying congress for market barriers and subsidies, most companies are entrenched. There are so many reforms needed in the US, but breaking up monopolies, or just stopping mergers, would be task #1. Price, creativ…
> In its revised suit, Hertz states that Accenture represented that they had “the best talent in the world" > Hertz claims that they were far from experts in these technologies and that Accenture was deceptive in their marketing claims. Colour me surprised. > Accenture also failed to test the software, Hertz claims, and when it did do tests "they were seriously inadequate, to the point of being misleading." It didn't…
> bunch of executives asleep at the wheel who lacked even the most basic technical skills needed to see that it was a fantasy... At some point, someone with technical acumen took stock of the situation and said "this is garbage". Why does this step always come last? WTF. "They said they were the best, but they lied!" I bet you as Hertz had some competent technical folks who could have vetted them. You either have the…
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You assume an approximation of a free market. In the US, most "markets" are largely dominated by monopoly, duopoly, or cartel conditions, and thus rent extraction. Combined with the efficacy and returns of lobbying congress for market barriers and subsidies, most companies are entrenched. There are so many reforms needed in the US, but breaking up monopolies, or just stopping mergers, would be task #1. Price, creativ…
What stops someone specifically from disrupting the Auto Rental industry?
2) airport counter real estate or the real estate at the "car rental satellite facility" is probably hard to get
3) fleet sale discounting with the car companies
But #1 is probably the main one.
Car rentals are actually decent in competition, although there may have been a merger flurry at some point.
Yup, Enterprise, Avis, and Hertz own them all.
It would probably take self-driving so an off-airport lot could dispatch self-driving cars to someone.
Customer service at car rentals is awful, it always seems to take an hour to get a dumb piece of paper and someone that says "go to this spot"
Disclaimer: not an industry expert, but all I see is three companies with the market share and no one new in probably 40 years, awful IT and customer service, and companies mistakenly calling the cops on their own customers for not-stolen cars.