The guy who wrote this is ex-DXC apparently! I'm not sure I share his optimism about Salvino but he certainly tells it how it is in respect of Lawrie and his time in charge!
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Hope he is a fully qualified t–d polisher .... nothing else will stop the rot !
Does he replace Iron man in the next one?
Accenture Mike
@11044B6p-jlg - oops my mistake read the UK Register article wrong the witch is going now. Good news but follow on bloke likely to be same or even worse than Talky Mike.
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/09/12/dxc_mike_lawrie/
@11044B6p-jlg - he's going but not gone yet and he will be very happy anyway in retirement with his millions netted - unlike a lot of ex DXC staff who had to go through the stress of WFR and exisiting DXC about to go through more and more WFR + reduction in prospects of this tainted company.
The follow up hacket man will be the same as Mikey - cuts and more WFR getting rid of more talent from the company - it's too late to save this company from its final break up and demise
@ Fake Mike - how embarrassing you would continously waste your time on platform like this - dont YOU have a job to do ?
Whatever lies ahead at least he has gone! I can't believe anyone can be as bad for DXC and it's people!
Are we sure the board didn't plan his retirement after his antics last November which dropped the share price and the ongoing decline of revenues faster than he could catch it with layoffs?
So as he leaves behind this scorched shell of DXC and his multi-million golden-handshake, he leaves with a legacy of a 'dogmatic style', 'acrimonouis interactions with key executives', leading rapid declines in revenue', dropping the shareprice by a whopping 70%, presiding over large scale job cuts and again, quoting the press: 'His greatest failing as a leader' was his 'toxic relationship with DXC’s 100k plus workforce.' (Taking DXC into glassdoor's 'Worlds top 12 worst companies to work for' in just 2 years.
- AMEN.
OK so what's next?
Mike's mini-me "Mike 'he's behind you' Salvini" is Mike's handpicked Accenture hatchet-man. A 53 year-old glove-puppet. He thinks of himself as 'team player' (which Mike clearly wasn't) and recognises 'talent' which Mike never did. So will that mean going forward there will be informed layoffs, rather than indiscriminate ones?
HALF-LIFE DECAY
Mike's challenge will be to restore faith in leadership; repair the toxic relationship of DXC with its workforce and to take a long look at DXC to determine what works and what hasn't (apart from leadership). He will then need to decide to cut those bits and invest in technology, process and skills in the growth areas and to try and get some stability to the foundations again and build a new vision around that, rather than the Lawrie approach of carpet bombing everything in the hope green shoots might appear.
Whilst he might do all the touchy-feeling 'welcome...this is who I am and what I am passionate about' stuff before Christmas when the layoffs are allowed to run their natural course (I doubt he will pause them as they will have been justified before his time).
In the new year he will have to make quick and significant changes to show things will be different, he can't do anything with the steak cutter still there passing secrets and she may announce her 'retirement' too before the new year.
He will do a few touchy feely meetings up to Christmas and then announce plans in the new year (once voldemort has left the chair). He will have to make significant and bold changes and outline those in December plans before commencing actions in the new year. His next few months will be meeting regional leads who have not been allowed to open their mouths for years. He wil need to see what is working and what isn't and start some real investment into technology, skills, process and create an environment to encourage creativity and innovation.
I've seen people on TV take old bits of sc-ap from the refuse tip and make them into highly desirable and saleable items, so I know it can be done. But whether mini-Mike can do it, remains to be seen.
Different Mike, same ole sh1te!