TIS has no staff.
It is literally just reams of managers reporting to managers and directors reporting to directors.
And VPs reporting to VPs
The manager layer is all accountants - or technology experts.
Accountants are good at money, and spreadsheets. Explains why every application and process we have from TIS ends up being run off excel. Yet they criticize business people for using excel and they are the worst offenders.
TIS has always been a semi functional SH*T SHOW. Management throws wood on the fire to smother it and SURPRISE the fire gets bigger.
Just imagine if they installed Corp AI apps they'd developed.
A Layoff HR app should be simple. Anyone who has gone through the scripted layoff ordeal could probably do it in MicroSoft Copiolt.
Morale has never been so low.
"TIS has a few directors whose roles are unclear to the rest of the organization. It is surprising that none of them were on the list. Lesson learned from TIS - having skills, working hard, and being smart is not required. You need to play corporate politics and get on the favorite list."
200% agree with this statement. There were TIS departments that did not loose anyone and somehow were able to also retain vacant positions. Follow the trail. No one is advancing unless they have questionable integrity and play cricket with the big guy.
TIS needs to look into D&A, OCIO and the Lab to sustain. OCIO processes are laborious and time-consuming. The lab has never built a product that was ever useful to business. But the CIO loves them, so he is pumping 10M every year. Data lead does not even exist. How can IT be effective with foundational parts not in place? Why cannot TIS apply its own built-benefits realization to these 3 departments?
TIS has a few directors whose roles are unclear to the rest of the organization. It is surprising that none of them were on the list. Lesson learned from TIS - having skills, working hard, and being smart is not required. You need to play corporate politics and get on the favorite list.
The TIS processes are slow, cumbersome, and outdated. I almost feel like they created those obsolete processes to increase their HCs. A lot of time as a business, you don't feel like they are supporting and working with you. Instead, they are working against you. There are so many political jargon, and they tried to even steal your results sometimes. We tried to avoid interacting with TIS to the extent if we could, but unfortunately, they also cut our permissions, so we have to depend on them in lots of areas.
CIO is ok and agree majority TIS are hardworking good group of people. It’s the Lab that distracts us in Business Units. The BUs are abused by the Lab leaders TL to show a dysfunct org as useful. We hear covert new Lab 2.0 is being stood up as Product teams????? money swindling function.
The most useless and disfuncional group at enb. Management is pathetic, lots of people there because they are friends, in some cases it’s obscene
It seems obvious the CIO does not want to be in his role anymore
TIS - hit or miss. 90% of it is offshore and/or lacking experience
Cybersecurity is probably the only thing they invest in internally - generally because of legal mandates because we are infrastructure (ie. license to operate).
Beyond the critical apps that underpin license to operate, TIS is garbage. I'm sorry, I know it's really negative. Application support is a joke, it's all staffed by offshore people whom don't know the business or the application - and the remaining application experts were all the first on the hit list from business teams (I know departments of close to 100 where application expertise is focused on around 1-2 people ... whom just become knowledge fountains for the SI's that get hired - all of whom are usless junior grade people make senior grade salaries).
The push this 'product owner' garbage on the business - with PO's whom don't know the product are the area. Analysts are shifted around wi--y-nilly every 6-8 months. The tech industry layoffs targetted these glut of Product Owners in all their layoffs cause they now know the model is sh-t.
Sorry TIS - you are a failing grade. If i were to place 'value', it's marginal at best. It's not the people's fault - it's leadership's fault.
When our CIO came from the dumpseter fire of GE, what do you expect. That guy needs ot be canned.
Good group of people, but completely lacks direction and priorities by EMT. Everyone is rowing in their own direction.
Without TIS this company comes to a grinding halt. What major infrastructure in the world does not or will not need Tech to be successful. Cyber attacks are an everyday occurance. I would hate to think what would happen without it . Now is it perfect? No! But does not mean we completely shelf it and ignore it. Without a strong TIS this company will not meet the technology challenges ahead… IPL has evolved and with it a different world with many challenges in which TIS will be needed to meet them head on. Let’s stop trying to throw dirt at each other. Every piece and group in this company is valuable, rather than sling manure at one another, let’s support and uplift one another. If there are areas that need a different approach let’s bring those suggestions forth in the spirit of collaboration and respect.
Terrible India Support ?