In the history of Global there have been five Presidents
Since Mike became the Xerox leader Global reported into three have left under his leadership
The back office was outsourced and many depts/companies combined
Johnny V and Stevie B provided the greenlight but remember who is on top of XBS
XBS will die with this transition, in my small core alone, the 8 key jobs badged over have a combined 60 years of experience in all the ins and outs and quirks and issues, Guatemala has NO personal interest in this core or making it a success, it's just a $5 per hour job, they have no common sense, no analytical abilities, the issues we caught will NOT be caught, as soon as our customers recognize (they don't now because us core people are still involved) they will have a ripshit and rightly so, and leave, our competition is eating this up, Xerox Direct billing was so F'd for years and it was because it was run by the unqualified team in Guatemala, the same people who are taking over the XBS jobs, good move Xerox, you sure know how to pick your leaders!!!
You still have to ponder why XBS bought GISX in the first place. GiSX worked. XBX didn't. XBX will now majicaly succeed? My kindergarten math didn't, and doesn't, work that way. I've been in this copier business for 40+ years. XBS will not survive this transition.
Unfortunately @11HIdZ69-1flg is failing to remember that being owned by Xerox makes what we do more visible due to it being a publicly traded company. Some of the bigger cores had to much market share to expect sales growth and the smaller cores had process challenges due to not enough knowledge sharing/to many big egos from SME (GIS FMA SMEs for example)
Mother X will never understand the GIS business model.
I’m not saying it’s was perfect and I can see why the Brass thinks it’s a waste of money to have each core doing their own thing but you can’t tell me Mother X is any better - nobody knows what the heck is going on or who Is responsible for what ..... not to mention how long it take for someone to get simple answers....it’s actually f—ng ridiculous.
I just laugh at their leadership style - let’s manage our employees by email.....what a joke
GIS was a $1.2 Billion company - So who cares if every core was doing something different??? Apparently that not good enough so the greedy F**ks figured out a way to put more money in their pockets - not the employees ..... and thats the only reason why the Brass cares what GIS was doing
20% of the companies were growing and innovating themselves for the future, 20% of the companies were just run efficiently, 60% were run by id–ts. XBS could survive in this market if they were by themselves but there is no way we could have been the savior for Xerox the way we were run today. You can't even compare the 2 organizations on equal footing. They weren't even in the same business. The only common denominator was we both sold copiers. XBS was ebit and margin driven with a sales force while Xerox had engineers, technology, R&D, inventors, and sales force.
We needed a change folks.. Xerox and XBS both needed a change. (I don't agree with the entire strategy to date) but the comments that we were invisible and would have survived long term is just wreckless.
Revenue decline doesn't follow short term business decisions that quickly. It takes years. Google companies like Amazon, Walmart, AOL, Yahoo.. this ship sailed 10 years ago.
GIS didn't do anything to make the cores better either...how can 40 companies do the same thing 40 different ways. There needed to be consolidation since GIS wanted to continue letting presidents run their company after the purchases. No one thought that the OOG processes, how we billed each for parts/toner or how our FMAudit arrangements were broken? Fights over bill dates and who collected meters.
The way Xerox is doing this is wrong but someone had to make drastic changes after GIS wasn't making any.
He's going on a tour to view the casualties of global imaging after Xerox put their hooks in us. Xerox single handedly destroyed global and the cores. We are paying for all of their poor business decisions throughout the years!
You mean more like 'behind' XBS.