Tuesday, February 24, 2009

IBM Korea, India and New York

Being sent to the project everyone in our company thinks impossible and difficult (in terms of communication due to culture differnce), I had amazingly good time there. Part of the reason is that I was only there to design the prototype and IBM consultants will be implementing and delivering it.

But seeing all the incompetent IBM consultants working on the projects (of course, there are a few exceptions), I started to contemplate why banks would like to contract with such a large organization filled with useless people. I guess that has everything to do with project failure risk. Suppose the big name fails to deliver, the bank can sue its ass off, having a 10 year long law suit to get their money back (plus interest not lower than the risk free treasury rate). In that aspect, I guess it is better to have big name associated with my project.

People I have met in Seoul are geniunely nice but being a nice person is not a guarantee to deliver.

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