Anne Sigouin (GM ArjoHuntleigh) willingness to hurt the business

Any news about 2021 sales budget?

 

This was only the beginning, she did most worse.

 

Meaning?

 

Sigouin train of thought is simple, how can I squeeze customer as much as possible.From jacking up prices of parts, labor rate to reducing way too much inventory, you name it, she did it all. Achieving next quarter is her only objective.

 

It is about her own agenda, grow up man.

 

During the Capital Markets Day, Arjo President & CEO, Joacim Lindoff, together with members of the Management Team, presented Arjo’s updated strategy. It boiled down to outcomes and being customer centric. Sigouin fired anyone not focus enough on her, not customers. Come on, how much time is devoted to customers in any of her meetings. Her only interest is when & how much money she can get out of them.

 

I wonder how many customers they reached out to measure market interest in outcome based programs.

 

It is not about customers but stories they can tell themselve. Read the presentation, they are looking for a less competitive environment. Their claim is few to no companies offer outcome based programs. The reality Arjo can't compete with current cost structure/ products offering.

 

With over 100K views, this threads is within top 10 Cafepharma. The nb of employees/ reads ratio is an official number one. Not clear what's going on at Arjo but it has strong traction for sure.

 

I feel so sad for Anne.

 

Don't feel sad, whenever you can't speak your mind at work, you do it in blogs.

 

By the way Anne, if a customer thinks differently than you, it doesn't mean he's stupid. When you think so, you're the one stupid.

 

Sigouin is so cynical, she screws up and fire those affected by it.

 

The story of Sigouin

 

It was Malmo that reduced inventory from 32M USD to 18M USD.

 

Right, still a leader would have reacted differently. Building a solid case and being willing to challenge, this is what leadership is all about.

 

Sigouin compensates her limited skills by doing anything requested by her boss.

 

The fact you can google Sigouin and she pops up on the first page of Google directing you to this site says so much. Everyone on this blog can't be wrong.

 

More so no one write to defend Sigouin. Typically, in these blogs, debates are about strengths and weaknesses of a given manager. Here we can only read a long list of her weakneses.

 

Not good advertising for sure.