I have never been so relieved in my entire career. Very sad to be brought to this thought.
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Bring back Val Matula as a C- executive. He likely won't leave his current C role, yet that would be wise to try. He could beat help Alan, while accurately and successful developing roadmaps for key R&D Investments
AVAYA never figured out how to align all of it's assets. And then once basic time and attrition did it for them, the market pivoted and they decided to do a quick fix cloud plan ..buy Spoken. They bought Spoken for PCI, HIPAA and Cloud, just to learn they didn't do due diligence and Spoken only had those things in marketing spin, not in reality. That began a series of redirections always repeating the same mistakes. So while they tried 3-4 quick fixes, they could have had developed a gradual strategy and built the road to cloud logically and effectively. Yet they didn't. Now the market doesn't really care about contact center business' at all. The competition has shifted and has many new entrants who threw out the rules of the stuffy old "wizard behind the curtain' contact center world. So how does Avaya fit? Only one way. Right Size existing business. Fix the debt. Sell core assets and business to a big tech company. (And for Pete's sake ..STOP the millennial twist consumer marketing approach....it's just noise and results in no new business. Avayas business is driven by business development go to market, not empty marketing tactics).
I think the saddest part of all of it is all these layoffs and cost savings is that it won't go into product development or investing in the company but rather just going to the bank to payoff the interest that Avaya has continued to pushed back for the last 10-15 years.
What business strategy, apart from trying to keep your head above water to service ludicrous interest/debt mountains... Where's the compelling, meaningful and innovative roadmap? Avaya was doomed as soon as it lost access to Bell Labs R&D. Anything of significance has been achived via acquisition to plug gaps in its own lacking portfolio... Sipera, Ubiquity, Nortel, Aurix, Radvision, Konftel, etc and in-house developed products have been epic fails.
Who cares anymore enjoy last few days before you get the boot it's comming
Because that's what it certainly looks like right now.