so very sad that the pioneer company of Xerography no longer designs or manufacturers Xerographic equipment. We've become label slappers, resellers of Japanese products.
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Bad mgmt decisions going back to late 90's, some much further. But from the Y2K on, it's taken at least three big steps down: crooks in the SEC debacle, Burns era, then the corporate raider dark ages.
"An over-sea employee gets paid $5/day. If they do the job right 60% of the time, Xerox sees it as a win."
That's a actual quote from Management.
Outsourcing...Inda, Guatemala, Jamaica...this is not the answer. These off shore contingents have no vested interest in Xerox doing well. It is only the cheapest dollar for an employee. These off shore employees learn nothing, they retain nothing, and cannot do the work. It is an absolute dead end for Xerox. Customers are leaving, employee knowledge is leaving and there is no way to sugar coat this...very bad management decisions will be the end of Xerox. Well, that and the inability to change direction as other companies did during and post COVID.
Haloid was a paper company with one customer and Joe Wilson turned it into Xerox. I’m sure that was simple just as I am sure you are simple.
"Please stop the cheerleading for old early Xerox leadership! It was very easy with limited competition, high margin, and profit! It was this same leadership who lost the early technology that is now Microsoft and Apples."
You don't know the story. Read up before commenting again. The point is Joe was a visionary, not just a manager.
David Kearns almost singlehandedly rescued Xerox from the death grip of Japanese competition all the while fighting against the old boy network that existed inside the company. If we had that kind of leadership in the 2000's UB would be the chief engineer at some wastewater treatment plant and ACS would still be a call center in Texas!!!!
Please stop the cheerleading for old early Xerox leadership! It was very easy with limited competition, high margin, and profit! It was this same leadership who lost the early technology that is now Microsoft and Apples.
Yes, our current leaders stink! But stop with the old cheerleading we had tons of resources, they did not have do much!
Joe Wilson was the only visionary CEO XRX ever had. Kearns was a great manager, but not visionary.
Steve Jobs wasn't a visionary. His ideas were stolen. Very surprisingly, unlike Xerox. Xerox originally invented the idea for windows, stolen by bill gates. crazy to think all the things Xerox created, and now just look at this place.
One has to wonder if only Xerox had a visionary like Steve Jobs.
No truer words were ever spoken. Led to the total dismantling of Xerox’s heart and soul ..Xerox the leader and Cadillac of the
printing and digital industry has been reduced to nothingness.