I know Jeff was swinging the axe yesterday and some poor 400 souls got hit sadly. The real question on my mind is did he completely obliterate the Data&AI group or are they still around. I know a director was let go in January/February. I'm just curious if he managed to plug the Data&AI money hole for good...
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Jeff Simon is a traitor.
@e3 Yeah but that doesn't change the fact that's it's what everyone remembers about her.
@ax Ronke isn't even there anymore and yet she's living rent free in your brain.
They spun AI off into its own center of excellence and now it's totally separate from data.
Interested to see where it goes.
Highly doubt if they had a big impact. It’s always very densely populated with people trying to create unnecessary work. Especially Sr Managers. Lots of promotions and H1B hires in several teams since 3 months while TFB, retail and care teams are bleeding. We don’t use them at all and have our own shop. One year, they says domain based, next year project based. They only care about money from business to fund Accenture, Infosys, IG. They don’t deliver on time, poor quality, too much bureaucracy. Data VP should ask business teams feedback what every person really do outside of their regular allocated support. We can save money and people on our side without funding Data teams.
Data & AI are separate from last year itself, different VPs , Grant (CAIO) under Mike and it’s mostly driven by expensive Accenture folks.
Data still have duplicate roles and it’s massive , there are people who are working in same team , same role from 10 , 20 years . Even contractors who settled and never get laid off. Needs a full hard refresh to make it clean , teams will not share anything. It’s very hard to get anything from them and that’s why business teams have shadow data teams.
The Ronke money hole 🕳️ must be satisfied by any means necessary
How will we be deeply data informed and ai enabled if we get rid of the Data&AI group?
Who gives a sh-t?