Jul 23, 2014
Anonymous employee
Tom Sawyer Software Response
11yThank you for your review and for recognizing Tom Sawyer Software's potential. We highly value initiative, but do expect that ideas go through the proper review and approval channels, and then proper implementation. In this way, we can ensure that new initiatives meet the company's quality standards and are in-sync with the goals of the company.
There really are many good ideas put forth by management and staff. As with many things, perseverance and hard work are needed to really follow through on ideas and see their implementation through. Furthermore, sometimes our staff has been surprised to find that an idea they had gets implemented a few years later.
Strategy and planning have never been the difficulty. As with many organizations, it is execution that proves difficult when you have many moving parts in a very complex technical business. Further, managers and staff really do have different skills, interests, and abilities. Some managers and staff are really very effective in seeing ideas through to implementation, while others really are not able to. When ideas take a long time to implement or are not implemented, there is usually an operational skills issue.