So, it's official now - Nürnberg

I made my decision.

Applying and looking for a new job with the current situation here at BenQ mobile I had two very promising alternatives in addition to the one staying here and hopeing that the isolvency manager would "rightsize" the remainings of the company and at the same time finds investors who would be willing to take over the buisness.

For me, i's going to be Nürnberg.

There have been nice and shiny other options, some of them including moving pretty far out but I made myself a certain deadline till when I should have made a decision and I like to at least try to stick to it.

I didn't make this decision easy for me, because the people I'm working here with are realy great people on every base, profession and personal. They are all "do-ers", they know what to do, they do it, they got the knowledge and the experience and I have learned a lot of them and it is realy a shame how in the management one mistakes has been followed by another finally leading to the insolvency. And when I'm talking about "the management" it's not totally related to the people in charge but more or less to the whole management structure. BenQ Corp. didn't managed to slim the decision making management to the "right" size speeding up decisions. The way it has been set up the responsibility has been distributed to as many people as possible so nobody was in the end able to make a decision or that group of people who should make the decisions didn't had the knowledge or expertise to take that decision, which resulted in reports from those who did, going forth and back and endless meetings discussing things over and over again.

Examplary of the fall of BenQ mobile is on a poster on a wall here in my office:

"Each company is only as good as it's processes behind it."

I can't even start talking about how wrong this is in o so many ways. Even with my limited experiences of 9 months in the "free industry" rather than at the university even the simplest mind must recognize how wrong this is.

But this blog is about me, so ....

... I'll be moving to Nürnberg to an other company in the same buisness but on a different level. One step closer to the R&D and the baseband and one step away from the making the final phones to the pre development you might say.

The plan is first: the fun stuff, visiting my godchild in Berlin, visiting my brother in Hamburg and later christmas, meanwhile trying to find an appartment somehow from KLF overthere. My contract starts on 1.1.2007 but having talked to them I got the opportunity to start on 8.1.2007 and have the option to get a room over there while I'm searching in January - I still hope they pay for that, but these details have to be clarified in the near future. One step at a time. My appartment here has been cancled, I should start packing my stuff but again one step at a time, now it's time to plan my visit in Berlin and Hamburg.

Anyway, what ever comes, I'll keep blogging from time to time - for sure.

p.s.
I graduated from yellow to orange belt in Hu Chuan Pai Kung Fu - even with a cold, yay !