Agfa Healthcare Reviews

Pros

Great co workers who work very well together and have a great support structure in an environment that generally keeps its departments compartmentalized.

Cons

Upper management really jumps the gun in allowing unfinished products into the market. This creates major issues with customer deployment.

Advice to Senior Management

Make so me changes to the way your managers work with clients and employees. They really need to have a shakeup from the to down.

Pros

Upside in Healthcare is tremendous and their is lots of room for growth in the sector. I like the people as well.

Cons

US operation is very weak. They need to restructure their sales organization to better fit the market and how they want to approach it.

Advice to Senior Management

Get rid of the upper middle layer that produces little and expects much. This is dragging down the company tremendously.

Pros

Agfa HealthCare is a dynamic and challenging environment to work in. There are many committed employees at every level of the organization.

Cons

Remote senior management team based in Europe poses some challenges. Not unlike other organizations in the current economy, constantly have to make do with fewer resources was difficult.

Advice to Senior Management

Place more emphasis on retaining good employees. Find additional ways to be more responsive to both employees and Agfa customers.

Pros

AGFA is a very organized company regarding tracking and managing resources in a top/down fashion. The amount of cutting and re-organizing they finally did post merger was just crazy. So many higher up management personnel were rotated in and out that you had to be sure they could figure out what to do with this business that they had acquired and could grow or get rid of.

Cons

The cutting of pay and benefits was hard. So many people left after the first round of cuts that there was massive talent loss.

Advice to Senior Management

The people at the Westerly location are good people and they know what they are doing. Stop sending managers who don't know what they are doing.

Pros

It's a very good feeling to work for a healthcare company, and feel that you are involve in the health and care of patients.

Cons

The management is a little messy, sometimes they don't really know what they want which can leads to a lot of frustration.

Pros

Good Pay and benefits but poor organization

Cons

No Internal product resources
Only one service person for multiple territories (Cardio)
Lack of roadmap and behind in innovation

Advice to Senior Management

Bring back people & resources

Pros

work environment is really good

Cons

amount of work is too much

Advice to Senior Management

none

Pros

Great products with great pedigree. The products WORK.
There are some very talented people there.
Well respected in the industry.

Cons

Constant reorganizations.
Frequent layoffs.
Difficult to determine a company direction.
A lot of egos and politics.

Advice to Senior Management

Get your act together.
Improve morale.
Listen to the advice and learnings of employees on the front lines.

Pros

The Tech Support Dep't had some very knowledgeable and skilled people who were very helpful and supportive of the customer and the field engineer alike.

Cons

Due to recent personnel cutbacks combined with aggressive installation projects there were simply not enough field support engineers to support the customer base.

Advice to Senior Management

Focus more on quality service and less on "making the numbers"

Pros

providing a valuable service to Health-care

Cons

slower European bureaucracy makes being able to adapt to changing environment more challenging.

Advice to Senior Management

more input from within, rather than top down