We said, “we can’t wait casually by while Order Entry, Finance, and Manufacturing go out
and make three separate decisions.” It would take too long to get those applications in place.
We needed to take faster action. At that point we got sponsorship from the SVP of
Manufacturing, Carl Redfield. He was with Digital before Cisco, in PC manufacturing. He
took the lead and said, “O.K., let’s get on with this.… let’s start from the manufacturing
perspective, and see if we can get the Order Entry and Financial groups in the company
interested in doing a single integrated replacement of all the applications, instead of taking a
longer time doing separate projects.” And so in February, about a month after the [company
shutdown], we went about putting together a team to do an investigation to replace the
application.