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Comments (21)
Undisclosed Manufacturer #1
"Replace 95 cameras with one Avigilon 29M camera... Yeah, that's the ticket!"
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chuck georgo
I believe it is the wise man or woman that is careful of what bridges they burn, as they may find the need to cross back over them some day - the competition you crush today, maybe the partner you need tomorrow...r/Chuck
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Undisclosed Manufacturer #4
I have two observations. The first is that usually as companies grow, it is normal to transition out of the team that helped you grow into the team that can help you become a large company. But generally when that occurs, it's a 1 out, 1 in slow transition, not consolidation of power. When you consolidate such as Avigilon is doing right now, that's almost certainly a sign that the company is circling the wagons because of massive internal problems. If you look at IQinVision as a comparison, within 12 months they lost their VP of Sales, CMO, CTO and CEO, and then their COO consolidated much of that power. Nowadays, IQinVision is an afterthought whereas once they were the lead horse in the IP Camera game.
My second observation is that Bryan Schmode is the poster boy for the Peter Principle.
Is this a case of the candle burning twice as bright burns half as long? I'm not sure, but if I were an investor in or customer of Avigilon's right now, I'd be very concerned.
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Robert Baxter
John, interesting topic. I liked the O'leary clip.
The original question posted was about the expected outcome of the person responsible for sales now responsible for operations?
Don't know Brian Schmode, but the skills and personality types of these two roles are usually different. They both require driven and dominant individuals. However, a person responsible for operations needs to be able to be detail oriented if need to, they are into process, and can build a cooperative team internally to get the job done. For a person responsible for sales they are managing a group of sales people who are usually loaners, very driven, abhor paperwork, and individuals good at building relationships with customers. They usually don't like getting stuck in the weeds over details.
Growing Sales, keeping customers happy may require challenges to what operations wants - being profitable, holding customers to their agreements. If a person can be successful in both roles - I would look at who is their key person that takes care of what they are not good at or interested in.
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John Martinez
John, If it is only thier sales and channel to sell, they are in big trouble. A Billion dollars by Silicon Valley standards is not impressive. So if they are taking the build and sell path, suitors will slice and dice the numbers and probably do a deal a lot less than that amount.
For some reason, Apple's Jobs keeps running through my mind. Next Larry Ellison pops up.
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