What do we know about the massive Consulting Reorg coming in Q1?
Hearing lots of managers are bailing rather than be forced to go along with it. Our manager's manager (now our manager as layoffs last year + attrition + hiring freeze on non-Indians made our managers drop below headcount to be managers) announced he's leaving at the end of the week.
@dc IBM executives are taking drastic measures. Get rid of all the dead weights
That would only work if they slit their own throats. They are deadest weight of all. Stop the endless mu---r of our careers.
@gz they are just so bad at some many easy fundamental things. And what is even more fustrating is that there are people who would be great at them! But they get passed over and the current leadership has an iron clad grasp on power with their vulture talons
@dc The deadweight is at the senior levels. But they always take it out on the rank and file delivery people and the GTM people who actually sell. Way too many service line/practice leaders who just fight over how deals are tagged in the system and industry leaders who just manage client rollups in a spreadsheet. The market leaders they report to enable this stupid behavior. It's a consulting organization, everyone should be at a client either selling or delivering or both, not sitting in an IBM office on internal calls playing politics all day. They need to burn the entire org down and rebuild it from scratch, based around clients not around "offerings" and fiefdoms.
@d7 IBM executives are taking drastic measures. Get rid of all the dead weights
It's not a serious reorg if it doesn't involve firing Mohamad Ali and replacing all the Geo and Market leaders. Anything less is just moving deck chairs on the Titanic.
@c9 fiscal q4 started today, that's what ibm uses
youre thinking fed/calendar, that's q1 today
either way, layoffs this month?
anyon heard anything?
@bx Q1 started about 6 hours ago. Basically anytime in the next 3 months.
Why Q1 and not right now?
The best reorg of IBM Consulting would be to sell it.