Last CIO completely disbanded the IT department - Outsourced hundreds, restructured org, and eliminated entire teams leaving behind enormous amounts of work not getting done. New CIO hired and now we are facing another org restructuring but haven’t even recovered from last one. How can IT effectively support the needs of this company with this chaos? Quite the mess. Word is that next set of layoffs are happening before fiscal year end.
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I feel bad for anybody in IT that survives next week. Q1 will certainly be a stressful quarter and there will be workers or budget to help!
This is what you get when you put IT under Finance... (or Operations tbh).
I believe both previous and new CIO have been hired with an assignment to cut cost at all costs and to turn IT into a commodity shop to keep the lights on only. They don't understand that without IT and technologies there is no future for the company.
It's just a matter of time MDT becomes a similar story as Blockbuster...
IT has been impacted for years now. Lots of cuts and funding declining. The number of incidents are almost on a daily basis. The systems are running in old infrastructure which increases the security risks and issues. The new CIO wants to move data analytics and support to India, because it's cheaper (she forgets lower quality and high attrition numbers). Any idea how many countries in Asia would love to get hold on our data? And what they might do with that while working together with China and ... R.?
The other funny part, they cut the funding in IT, but the OUs have their own IT department, like Diabetes and they are making it even worse.
It’s a mess. I feel for those employees. No one is happy.
Global IT is a complete cluster. Lennon dropped a nuke on the whole thing and then got canned. I work in GIT and morale is absolutely brutal. No motivation whatsoever.
Don't talk about Global IT. They removed hundreds of people without knowing what they were doing. Now to move something to production, I almost need a DNA test and the approval of the President! No accountability of those who approve either. The outsourced team who is supporting us has no clue. I had to tell one guy how to do his job! This is one reason why Im leaving. We have to go through hoops and loops to follow the new chaotic and inefficient processes. You get no special reward for doing so but get scolded if your performance decreases. SMH.
The band of brothers and sisters in Global IT left are busting their butts off to work around the Service providers roadblocks, but at times I feel like we trying to swim up a waterfall that will not stop pouring water on our efforts to get to a dry footing again. Anyone else feel the same way?
The committee that hired that buffoon should be fired. Anyone not blind could see from his first town hall we were heading towards a disaster.
It can’t. Global IT is broken. Outsourcing networking and routing to managed service providers was a mistake. Saved money on OPEX to cut off your nose on contractor/consulting spend.
Everyone outside of Global IT hates working with the group because it could take a week or more to get a response or your ticket could just get lost and no one ever gets back to you.
The best thing they could do is rehire the people they let go, but that’s not going to happen and there would be few takers to come back to a place they probably hate now.