What would Shakespeare Say ?

[Jaxonalden]

Originally Posted by Ghostrider 310

Jax,

I worked on design teams in the fortune 100. I saw how it worked across business lines and at three powerhouse companies during my career. Profit is always the main objective, profit improvement as well. Many were the times millions was spent correctly in application of a beautiful modification. Just as many times, correct fixes and accurate predictions of imminent failure before launch were ignored in the classic American business paradigm of "damn the glitches, we'll repair them in the field on the fly and bless them as ongoing modifications". It was also frequently true that 100% remedies were avoided in cost containment, with those very decisions being made by the holders of the purse.

So is that the real reason American quality and the state of the economy is the way it is? Not spending the extra money it takes to get it right?

Bad reputations take years to repair, and sometimes thats not long enough.