Is this how most VCs think?
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Nice write-up. But i'm more interested in what happens next?
1. In return for your 3x fare, can he deliver consistent savings everytime?
2. How would you react when one day, despite your 3x offer, the optimised-for-time routing takes longer than the shortest-path that you would follow in your car?
3. Will the 3x fare continue to have the same motivational effect after 6months of this arrangement?
4. Did throwing money at a problem actually solve it? Or did it promote an inefficient solution (3x fare) and stifle actual innovation(remote-work facility)?
So effectively an "expert consultant" was brought in to "streamline" the workflow. And the one-time investment paid rich dividends. Interesting... :-)
Q5. So in your experience, how true is the analogy in IT companies?
Does hiring an external consultant to improve the workflow often result in actual "process improvements" for the better?...
It's why I left my current job. Hired me as IT Director. I fixed all the nonsense development (cowboy) and got everything going the right direction. The owner doesn't give a shit, he just overloaded all the IT processes I setup and we're back to where we were almost. Since I put in my notice, the developers have gone back to the old hacking shit together way.
So yes, a consultant (or anyone) given the ability to streamline workflow can fix something. Now will that work going forward, only time will tell due to all the external pressures/factors that go into both the scenario in the post and in any IT dept I've ever worked in.