i2 Technologies Reviews

Pros

Smart talented people; unstructured approach that provides freedom for a variety of working styles; good benefits; approachable top management; flexibility to move groups internally

Cons

No clear policy for external education sponsorship; insufficient management attention to skills refresh/augmentation; Few opportunities for vertical career growth; insufficient stress on career development/planning;

Advice to Senior Management

Provide tangible incentives to managers for, and improve accountability for mentorship and employee career development; support annual skills refresh/augmentation; promote 360 reviews for manager benefit

Pros

Very sharp people to work with in Los Colinas office.
Interesting projects and clients.
Solid products with definable business benefits.

Cons

Training was superficial.
Supervisor was inaccessible. Did not even say "Hi" during training. Attended first project kick off meeting, then disappeared for months. Never called.
Project was total chaos and professionally embarrassing.
Knowledge sharing was minimal.

Advice to Senior Management

You should have stayed focused on the core competencies. The diversion into the Trade Matrix / exchange in about 2000 was clearly a huge mistake. There was also a huge lack of customer focus during my time.

Pros

great people, technically competent, had vision.

Cons

the market and business did not do justice to the firms intentions.

Pros

Some of the best minds worked creating solutions to complex SCM & SRM problems. It was best company with great culture and environment.

Cons

The top management should have developed the business rather just focus on selling the company. The board just made money by selling the company cheap.

Advice to Senior Management

Please do the honest thing when you have great people working under you and delivering products that make impact and benefit the business saving millions of dollars.

Pros

Get to keep airline and hotel points for travelling

Cons

lask of leadership, unstable product

Advice to Senior Management

treat employees better to improve morale

Pros

it is all about people and talent.
very good and friendly people which really helps in growing not jst as an employee but as a person too.
the Process are very simple and transparent.

Cons

Interpersonal relations among employees overshadows the professionalism.

Advice to Senior Management

Everything can't be measured in figures.

Pros

works always fun and a lot to learn

Cons

Management does not care about employee growth

Advice to Senior Management

None

Pros

you get to work with some of the best minds in the industry. there are some really hardworking and motivated people in ti2

Cons

well its been bought by jda, so hopefully jda can fix what used to be flaws with i2 technologies in the past

Advice to Senior Management

nothing really, am sure jda did a study before buying i2 tech. so hopefully they bring good change and march forward

Pros

i2 used to be the dream company of many people about a decade ago...some of those traits still exist. For eg: a small company feel, open work culture and a great product range

Cons

First of all, i2 is no longer an independant entity...has been taken over by JDA,so can't expect JDA to fulfill the career aspirations of the erstwhile i2-ers. Secondly, i2 has consistently been amongst the poorest paymasters. Third, the quality of people has been degrading continuously.

Advice to Senior Management

Please rationalize the pay structures as per the industry norms

Pros

The salary and bonus was competitive and the job came with some perks - free snacks, drinks and Friday lunches.
You had the opportunity to work with smart peers and project team members and with challenging customer-facing projects. Being a technical person, it was thrilling to understand the company's products and their benefits from the inside and to try to capitalize on such understanding when trying to sell and/or get them to work and benefit the paying customers.
I had the opportunity to work on several projects in various industries and with different supply chain related products from detailed scheduling to B2B.

Cons

Management strategies seemed too driven by short term goals to meet Wall street expectation. Company expanded too fast with many acquisitions in its early years. Working environment could get pretty unstructured and chaotic with team and/or product not being fully integrated and newly acquired products/personnels were involved.
Perhaps some good did come out of those experience - I got more taste of "start-up" working experience.

Advice to Senior Management

i2 do have great techinical workers and products. Now that i2 is part of JDA, hopefully JDA can better manage those resources and assets with a clearer strategic vision.