I left DXC a long time back. I see Drum is at the top of the top table making even more moolah. What did he do? Did he actually consolidate those payroll and HR systems? Did he actually improve the companies processes? Just asking as it looks like the boy done good. And what happened to Mary? If I recall she was revamping HR olat $1m an email.
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Drum has done very well. His on $7 million a year for holidaying around the globe, recent trip to London, nice flight, hotels and food.
His enjoying the employees pay rises, no growth needed his guaranteed the money.
@OP I believe erp consolidation is actually quite tricky and that the internal IT sap guys tried and failed. I think they hired in some external consultancy who also failed.
No idea where the project is now.
Last year's cio didn't even try, he's gone now. Jokes now runs that, whether he can do any better I don't know but he's mister Teflon so I expect when he fails he'll be promoted upwards.
Drum - was good drumming up his salary figures. Did next to nothing in ERP consolidation - miserably failed in the dxc time, which was a disaster SaaS. So we still happily have multiple time systems.
On the way out of the IT department, hired multiple useless cronies - they brought in some useless value streams and it is all a mess.
HR is another waste of time.
Drum did some good things in the CIO role. He fixed the PC crisis where we couldn’t get PCs for new hires until about 6 weeks after they started. He also put some things in place for workers to be able to easily get equipment. He made some good gains quickly and became a bit of a fixer for M2. He started some of the internal systems consolidation but didn’t finish. He moved out of the CIO role into more operations and now cloud services. The people in CIO after him struggled and internal systems are still a mess. Drum does actually have better industry relationships and has been able to leverage those for the benefit of the company. Mary was always in a bubble. She didn’t do anything. She was largely ineffective because she never took the time to actually understand the company situation. She Had one annual salary review that was never repeated. Started new job architecture effort that took like 3+ years and by then the regions had done their own. Just created a bigger mess. She had potential but wasted it IMHO. I couldn’t tell if she was being held back or just didn’t try very hard to improve HR. For a short time she also had marketing and that was a failure. She was very much overpaid or the work.