Comments on recent IT leadership announcement? How was the newly promoted GM?
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@1p2 SH takes all O2 in the room when SH talks. Brevity is not SH's strengths. Mansplaining is.
@1p2 The BUDMs are PMs that remain are but a symptom of the cancer that lies beneath.
The organism would be healthier if all were purged.
things wont improve unless there is a major shakeup.
@1p2 nailed it. The high PSG BUDMs or whatever they’re called now can’t hack it anywhere else and know they can only survive at Chevron which is why they’re so cutthroat about keeping their power.
@1km if I had to guess every San Ramon XLT member will be gone before end of year.
I don’t see half of the DNI LT staying beyond another 12 months if things don’t drastically improve. And even though they’re not in IT right now, I would be shocked if JL was still at this place by year end.
In cyber, SH and TM. In the business engagement org with all the BUDMs and program managers, these people are probably not going anywhere because no one in the world would pay them what Chevron pays.
One of AK’s LT members?
I’m hearing one more high profile leader leaving soon
@zf
New OE moment being pushed around says we cannot take the cyber phishing button for its word when you send an email to be scanned by the cyber team. You have to continue the contact them another 2 times before they figure it out. We he would anyone tdd as ke that much time if that is their job?
@vg - the new CISO is just half the problem. The entire Cybersecurity LT has their head up their as% thinking they are hot sh!t when they are nothing but cronies to JR and LC.
It should disgust everyone that we let the old CISO walk and then are paying the current CISO with half the experience at double the price
How about the CISO is he still here?
Hate to be the breaker of bad news, but I’ve had the unfortunate luxury of interacting with ELT members, and their brains are much more similar to LC’s than they are to whatever imaginary IT leader savior you got in your minds.
There’s a very good reason that the incompetent LC hasn’t been let go yet. It’s because he is in complete alignment in objectives and IQ as the ELT.
https://www.chiefsecond.com/blog/the-death-of-the-cio
This is not a new trend. It’s been happening and @p2 got his head in the sand.
@p2 you do know that 50% of the fortune 100 do not have a CIO role, right? They are now CTO, CDO. The market is already moving away from that title - rebranded, fragmented, or elevated into business roles (CDO).
Laughable? Or maybe Chevron is trying to be a slow follower since it has already started to shift
Saying “oh this Fortune 50 company is just going to not have a CIO role” is laughable. Sure you can talk about the role being neutered and beholden to a new leader but lol at acting like you’re reading the tea leaves and you think it just fades from the org chart altogether
Snoreeeee
@m8 she saves money by firing people or being so mean they quit.
@m7 I guess that does make sense why they pulled the heir apparent MA out of IT.. well, F@&K. The market is not doing great for us IT peons, otherwise I’d be out of here already. All these years in ETC and subsurface platform, I also got this incredible coming full circle with my new GM. How she went from that TTL from not long ago to where she is now truly astounds me.
If we are all going to be cut, I suppose she played the game right and maximized her (lack of) talent and knowledge
My crystal ball (with a few decent senior sources) tells me that there won’t be a CIO role after LC is canned with his GM cronies. Everything traditional IT is effectively MSP, not necessarily ENGINE or Manila and Buenos Aires.
That CIO role becomes IT Operations at a level equivalent to a GM reporting to a business services director.
Anything that’s seen as “digital” will flow up under the CTO / CDO, and be under non-IT leaders.
If you’re in IT, get out ASAP. If you know the business pretty well, you have a better shot at those who just follow LC orders and hang out in ADO all do for meaningless dashboards. Another ROM is coming for IT…
The ELT is forcing out all the upper management in IT because by 2030 the IT management will be primarily Indian men grinding out repetitive processes without any ingenuity. They will be managing Indian drone engineers that can only follow instructions with no thoughts for themselves. The new staff in the Enhine are mid career people with little work experience. I am surprised with the majority of new staff from the engine with their lack of work experience.
The ELT want lower costs and they can measure savings in lower wages. The quality of the staff is being lost but maybe the ELT does not care about customer service.
@dn I disagree. JM was the true company man. He is cut from the same cloth as AG… all about feelings and no delivery. Nice guy, though. But company man for sure.
JM was a huge loss as well. A leader. Just met AC, looks like a manager
DC was a huge loss.
@ct uhhhh no, DC is not qualified for that job, although we would all be better off with her than with AK. Same with pretty much everything under IT. Real talk
@bc: there was no replacement. AK took the role; DC should have had all DNI.
Who replaced DC in Data and Insights, who left December last year ?
Who cares? The bench is so thin that they promoted people who have no business being in those roles. It’s not just the GMs. It’s all the people under them too. For example, no other company managing subsurface apps is going to hire a guy who was a law IT manager with zero subsurface experience and pay him half a million. But this is the situation we are in.