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        <title><![CDATA[RE: A 50K solution to a $500 problem]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Not allowed to speak up and criticize any existing process, person or the way things are being done or will be labeled as not a team player and have to take sensitivity classes ]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Thu, 28 Oct 2010 06:20:41 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[SAP]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Doesn't every SAP implementation end up like this?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Fri, 22 Oct 2010 09:35:04 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[I see this all the time]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[There are many companies, in the name of controlling costs, that have a cumbersome and bureaucratic process for tracking business expenditures. It must cost about $75 in employee effort to process a $25 expense reimbursement request at some places I've seen. I think management is more concerned about feeling like they're in control than actually saving money.]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Fri, 22 Oct 2010 09:31:10 -0700</pubDate>
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        <pubDate>Thu, 21 Oct 2010 20:11:02 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[I saw this recently.]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Several meetings spread over several months to discuss how to deploy an application without giving the users Local Admin privileges.  The money wasted in the meetings could have been used to hire a temp dedicated to this function, and he or she would have completed the installs in less time.  (The app still isn't deployed.)]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Thu, 21 Oct 2010 10:54:10 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[RE: A 50K solution to a $500 problem]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[The saddest thing is that this even needs to be publicized for those in managerial positions. ]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Jellimonsta]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Thu, 21 Oct 2010 10:29:10 -0700</pubDate>
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        <description><![CDATA[If this were only an isolated case...I used to work for a large MFG'er that had no inventory/tracking of a particular class of production line support tools.These tools cost up to several million dollars each.When a replacement tool was needed, if they couldn't locate one easily, they just bought a new one.Geesh.Guess what happened when they finally had to cut costs to survive? Instead analyzing problems like th is, and addressing them, they just moved all their production to China.This is a prime example of US business leadership. They will take the easy way out instead of taking the intelligent way out. Too bad if it costs a lot of people jobs.]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Thu, 21 Oct 2010 10:26:02 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Thanks Toni]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Thank you for the reminder that we may get so focused on an issue, we don't see the bigger picture.  Moving forward on a project or not, should be closely looked at with a cost/benefit view.]]></description>
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