despite cutting more than 30% of the workforce in IT, they are still running at the same cost as 2020. not sure how they have so much fat.
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the best agile chapter employees are the low psg ones. the worst ones are the high psg ones.
can you figure out who to cut next, after they've saved the ones they wanted to save with this "leadership chapter" nonsense.
I believe that no just Blacks , here in Pasadena TX. I lost few of my Hispanic friends , new management came from Mississippi and Louisiana and cut most of the minorities , They do not believe on diversity or equal opportunity.
all I see from IT today is a bunch of IT project managers and business analysts who were not very good at their jobs, and rebranded themselves with some new "agile" role. but instead of agile, they might as well have been just normal IT project managers and note-taking business analysts.
they also want to "coach" us up in the "new way of working". but in reality, our engineers and scientists are much more agile and much better at being project managers than they are. they just like to intimidate everyone with new terminology that means the same things as what we have always done for decades.
Microsoft Viva will fix everything
If IT can’t hit our cost reduction / efficiency targets for this year, maybe there would be some layoffs. I’m sure IT is hard at work building a case for why it’s not their fault and saying things are just more expensive.
All I see as an end user is more and more Microsoft c-ap that does not work and makes it ever harder for me to get my job done. Some folks in the oil industry (most folks) work with large data files. No I don’t want to assign meta data to 10,000 old project files you just made me transfer to sharepoint, no I don’t want the 100 gb project I just copied to the desk top of my blade in the hope I could avoid network delays to be locked while it syncs with my home lap top computer desktop over my c-appy Comcast connection, and no I don’t want to take another f$$$ing workpace break after I have been sitting staring blankly at my screen waiting a half hour for the results of a file search! Maybe it is time we as a company moved off windows and disconnected from Microsoft so we can get some work done!
the lack of technical leadership in the IT function and the BCG power point presentations is what got us into this situation. we are spending a billion dollars building "IT foundation" while the digital platforms supporting the other functions centralized everything in the BUs while trying very hard to push perfectly good, working BU tools to third party. If third party vendors can provide us with all the technology, then what's the point of spending a billion bucks building the IT foundational platform? cut it all.
All of these share point moves, social media clamoring, hundreds of AI engines, cloud services and thousands of analytics have cost the Corporation huge during past 5 years. But, I haven't seen a solution that rewards the corporation with a multiple of the value invested. Everyone in IT seems to be out to get the next best thing without thinking how that helps the bottom line. Why?
It will be another 25% or so reduction in the US with the hope that all of those reductions will come from retirements and contractor positions.
It’s because no one in IT has any idea what the h3ll they are spending money on. It’s a giant shell game. IT just moves money around and hides cost in buckets that management can’t understand. When the numbers look bad, they just refactor all the costs and massage the numbers until they fit the narrative in the power points that get sent up to the Execs. All the savings projections are based on bad data so they never pan out. No one really knows what we’re saving on cloud or anything else. It’s all just made up guesses in PowerPoints and excel.
If IT is running at the same rate, it’s because Accenture is fleecing us. I would expect another, much smaller adjustment later his year.
don't tell me, you're probably 'that guy' calling help desk with sharepoint issues.
here's the 'fat' - every SINGLE time mw shows his mug on cramer, cvx craters.
don't think he's had a significant quarterly beat that increased sentiment ... ever.
looking more and more like he's not up to the task.
wonder if the bod is looking up watson's number, hell they'd probably do better with o'reilly's number.
Yes and yes. All the bulk will eventually be too much to translate into any operating profit.