private dinner at a 5-star restaurant with the CEO
What was the change?hah no. A side project that I began 3 years ago to make my small production teams work easier by digitizing the workload began to attract massive interest, which grew to a huge corporate-level initiative that I led to upgrade all paper work procedures to digital for the entire production team. This gets rid of errors in revisions, need to keep paper copies, reduces cost of paper, etc., and increases efficiency and work tracking.
Did you round the fractions of a penny to the nearest penny etc.? lol
hah no. A side project that I began 3 years ago to make my small production teams work easier by digitizing the workload began to attract massive interest, which grew to a huge corporate-level initiative that I led to upgrade all paper work procedures to digital for the entire production team. This gets rid of errors in revisions, need to keep paper copies, reduces cost of paper, etc., and increases efficiency and work tracking.This made a lot of enemies as well people who were in the document control division freaking hated it, because more than half of them are now out of the job, and people in IT hated it because its more work for them. However, no senior and executive management could say no to this digital transformation, since its just so practical and a needed thing in todays world to be competitive.
This made a lot of enemies as well people who were in the document control division freaking hated it, because more than half of them are now out of the job, and people in IT hated it because its more work for them. However, no senior and executive management could say no to this digital transformation, since its just so practical and a needed thing in todays world to be competitive.Sounds like you made the working mans job harder but made money for the bosses. Great job
Sounds like you made the working mans job harder but made money for the bosses. Great jobNope. The technicians who do the work vastly prefer the digital tablets since it makes their life so much easier. Their supervisors also love it because it makes document revision control not a problem, and makes work tracking and auditing easier.
Whatever helps you sleep at night for putting people out of workMeh. Its a work shift. Were hiring more people now to manage the tablets and the software maintenance. The $2 million savings per year isnt actual $$$ savings, but projected efficiency gains (which we measure by work years, but I converted to $$$ terms for CE).
Whatever helps you sleep at night for putting people out of work
Whatever helps you sleep at night for putting people out of work
this is the best reward of all imo. more than the money itself.
I mean this innovation is a given in other companies.Agreed. This was the right thing to do in the name of progress. Sooner or later, this would have happened with or without me; I just happened to be the one to lead it (right person at the right time). I wasnt actually expecting a bonus at all, so this was a surprise a month or so ago when I learned Ill get the bonus and dinner with the CEO (which hasnt happened yet; its scheduled for 6/17). I was allowed to bring +1, to which I invited my wife, but she says I should invite my executive sponsor for the project (whos on my site), or my #2 (who didnt get any award, despite me trying to get him recognized; regardless, hes not on my site so he would have to travel across the country which isnt going to happen).
Changes happen all the time. I remember when every exec had their own secretary. Now theres maybe 1 shared among many. Ease of sharing electronic calendars, ease of booking travel electronically and the fact that documents can now be signed off electronically got rid of that position.