June 27, 2007
E-mailing the Senior Vice President of Human Resources
Last week I noticed that the (let’s call it) Foo process at Microsoft was really inefficient and seemingly out of date. That it had dramatic room for improvement.
I sat down, went through the Foo process, documented everything I thought was wrong with it, stuffed it into a PowerPoint deck, and then sent it off to Lisa Brummel, the Senior Vice President of Human Resources.
I got back a well written e-mail a few hours later, clearly written by Lisa herself. It provided some context of how we got into that state, some of the challenges that will occur in changing the Foo process, and a commitment to have the Foo-related team examine the situation to streamline it.
Though Microsoft is a 70,000+ company, it’s good to know that I can still have access to our execs.
On a completely random note, I think the photo from the corporate website (linked above) would’ve been better had it included Lisa’s famous shorts.
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