I’ve heard Polaris is a huge failure. Costs much higher than advertised and schedule totally blown. Combine it with the benefits being oversold and one us to wonder where is the accountability? anyone have examples of the failures?
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Am sure our competent, home team executives will get things back on track. In addition to planning their next important business trip to the location they’re sending your job, padding their bonus and enhancing their children’s trust funds, they’ve been using all this time at the trough to plot what their inaugural attempt at creating actual long term biz value will look like. Stay tuned!
Hey we cannot even get a simple dashboard of who have completed legal compliance training surveys going after 2 months. Mind you this is just who have completed the surveys not the actual trainings. So proud 🥲🥲
It isn’t that there aren’t enough people in the project. There are too many hipos and not enough workers on the project!
The scope of Polaris was always monumental. Too big, the timeline too short, the resources they put into it not enough. And everyone outside Polaris is stuck in what was. So... it's going as can be expected.
We should have just leased the ENRON building in Downtown Houston. It would have been more cost effective to lease with the option to buy.
These days ABSOLUTELY EVERYTHING IS A FU--ING FAILURE AT EXXONMOBIL.
Thank goodness our execs in charge of tech related things and systems and projects are all very tech savvy and where they have gaps, are quick learners and intellectually curious! Enterprise scale application of their expertise through their strong interpersonal skills, impeccable integrity and gifted leadership styles is why we pay them so much more than the rest of us.
Staffing up Polaris right now in a desperate attempt to try save a project that has gone way off the rails and is rapidly headed towards total failure.
Well Polaris is the second coming of FTP (finance transformation project), which failed miserably, because - and no joke this was said out loud - instead of investing hundreds of millions we should have invested billions. So here we are now investing billions at the advice of the same consultants and expecting a different outcome. Kinda feel bad for the F&L senior execs that decided to jump off the cliff first not realizing its a free fall right to the bottom. Keyword being kinda, since this was all rather foreseeable.
I sat in a room earlier this year where the Polaris team told all of the lifer site process leads that they had no options or voice in how this would be rolled out. That the company’s 75% solution overruled their 25% issues. We can’t even get plants in the same fenceline to have similar procedures and these geniuses think we’ll make this work when we’ll work against just out of spite for you not asking.
Total cluster Polaris is.
The campus in Spring … all that money spent only to offshore thousands of jobs. They should have offshored first then consolidate Houston area buildings.
Agree with previous commenter that XOM has lost institutional knowledge and will suffer from failed projects for the rest of its existence. People used to care but now it’s a bloated corpse off which consultants will feed for years.
Whenever you let Deloitte choose what’s best for you and can’t make your own decisions, what do you expect. I have been in meetings to discuss a single report that would take less than a day work to ensure we still have it after Polaris. No lie spent over 4 hours discussing with 8 Deloitte contacts to have them say we aren’t putting it in scope. You will lose items you have today, and you will get nothing new. Hundreds of millions spent(wasted) to let consultants run your company.
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Polaris is either a nuclear intercontinental ballistic missile loaded on US Navy nuclear submarines or an EM brilliantly managed project to replace the old version of SAP (SAP R/3) by the (not so) new one, SAP S/4 aka HANA. Both could have similar effects...
I have first-hand experience of the introduction of SAP R/3 in the early 2000s to replace all the heritage internally developped systems. It was anything but straightforward, but at that time we had solid organisations with knowledgeable and seasoned people who were able to spot and promptly correct most major flaws in the design. Now, these type of employees are gone, except a few and have been replaced by people who don't know contractors who don't know exactly what they're talking about. The outcome is written on the walls for those who can read. I'll be gone when the sh-t hit the fan. Good luck all those who will still be around...
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