Tony,
re: "Intel must have middle - upper management rank people that should be looked at very closely to replace, e.g. Dr. Yu, if he was directly responsible for so many of the foulups. About him, does he go to project reviews, at least monthly or something? Does he ask the tough questions? Or does he sit in his office rich with his Intel stock. I've seen a chairman of the board at another company go to weekly reliability meetings, and ask the best and toughest questions there. Nothing should be beneath the top guys at Intel right now. Get out to the lab and look over a shoulder at a logic analyzer. If they think that would be getting in the way, at least read the log book daily. All these things make the troops more careful and thorough in their engineering development and verification, etc."
I worked for a company that received about 1000 orders per day. They started having backorder problems, and getting customer complaints. The President of the company demanded and got a report each morning listing every single backorder, and spent ALL his time discussing and resolving each and every one, no matter how small. The problems got solved in about 60 days, but more important the entire organization knew, from that point forward, that backorders were not an option.
I don't know if this report is correct. If it is, Barrett had better get down and dirty with the details of the problems. If he doesn't feel comfortable with that, then he ought to be replaced by the board of directors.
John |
