Sunday, January 15, 2006
Invensys Building Systems to go franchise
The title of this news is about expanding, but the story is telling the shrinking.
With a network of Independent Field Offices, IBS is cutting its project delivery force and put the limited resource on R&D(?) and manufacturing. But I am still questioning about the loyralty of the "Independent Field Offices", which are actually dealers. I see more and more dealers adopt "best of breed"method, i.e., to give up the exclusive dealership and mix controllers from different manufacturers, based on the controller prices and engineering costs, in projects.
With a network of Independent Field Offices, IBS is cutting its project delivery force and put the limited resource on R&D(?) and manufacturing. But I am still questioning about the loyralty of the "Independent Field Offices", which are actually dealers. I see more and more dealers adopt "best of breed"method, i.e., to give up the exclusive dealership and mix controllers from different manufacturers, based on the controller prices and engineering costs, in projects.
# posted by comfortpoint @ 9:29 PM 
