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Originally Posted by Traum
I know the corporate bean counters have a lot of pull. But come on, they don't know shxt about engineering. If an engineerer is recommending a superior engineering solution for good reason (improving reliability seems like a darn good reason to me, esp when the Nissan numbers were low at the time), you'd think the bean counters would look at some longer term gains over the immediate cost savings...  |
I do agree with your assessment from a car enthusiast standpoint, but Tofu is right. Every public company in any field is primarily driven to increase stock holder value more than actually making a great product. I work in the consumer packaged good industry in which most CEOs before came from the marketing departments. Nowadays, almost all CEOs are from the finance departments. That is very telling what most company priorities are......