Seriously, what would make it better? No trolling just ideas and maybe someone who can make it better is reading
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Employees take theor teams and start their own companies then charge back DXC. You would be surprised how well that works out. Middle management has been wiped out. ML needs to go, he is not a leader. He is a operations guys, keep the boat afloat and keep selling even when there is no inventory. The company needs some people willing to step up and charge whatever rate you like because that is how they treat their employees, like a contractor so why not become one.
Seeing it in your rear-view mirror would definitely make it better.
You can’t. Not even 4000 volts up it’s Jacksie will make it better. It is dead! Ceased to be; bereft of life; lost its mortal coil and gone to meet its maker.
What improvements has management ever made in the 1.5 years DXC has been in existence? We are all dreaming if we think things are ever going to change. The definition of insanity is to keep doing the same things and expecting a different result.
Instead of hoping for a savior or miracle to happen, we all should be doing the bare minimum at DXC while doing all we can to find a new employer.
1 day ago by B--chPlease
"Stand up to customers when they’re wrong by telling them what they actually need, even when it costs us a contract. (Bad work isn’t worth doing.)" Your so f---ng right, they come to us for our so called expertise if they want to do incorrectly then don't come to us
Sadly the previous poster is correct. This ship has too many holes to plug and is not worth saving. Time to save yourself and abandon ship before the captain steers it into an iceberg and all perish. Your loved ones will thank you for it!
Serious idea on making Self better... Stop Day Dreaming....Have a Life and look for a real job....
Most important... stay away from psychosomatic d--gs... to prevent such hallucinations !
Stop mistreating your most valuable asset, your people, treat them correctly, reward them correctly and trust them, they will save your arse, if ya don’t, they will (I promise) take you down, as they are now!
What would make DXC better:
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ML allowing his so-called 'senior leaders' to actually lead. At present they are managers implementing his instructions rather than leaders.
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Having an actual strategy, i.e. a medium term plan to achieve a major goal. "Sell more 'Digital' stuff" is NOT a strategy.
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Build trust within the workforce.
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Realise and accept that there is a cost to doing business.
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Cease the relentless cost-cutting and accept that you cannot cut your way to prosperity.
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(Follow on to (5)) Cease the madness that of travel approvals that mean a £5 travel expense has to be approved by an L3 Manager. Of a 130,000 employee company. (True story).
It makes me laugh, you all try to blame this person and that person and the other...
Haven't you figured it out yet? Mikey is in charge. Absolute dictatorship. Nothing happens without his say so. In fact, if its not his idea it doesn't happen.
Whilst Jo is hardly stellar, she's also obeying direct orders. No matter what other services she provides, she's just the same as the others, say yes or be out the door.
When senior people leave its because they refuse to follow Mikey's line. They aren't allowed any discretion to do their own thing.
Its this lack of trust and devolution of power that cripples this place. You cannot micro manage an enterprise of this size.
Most issues are workforce, related (pay, bonuses, job grading, communications, severance, WFR procedure, motivation, staff recognition and reward, career opportunities, retention, recruitment, training etc. There is ONE person in charge of all of these and she is failing because she is unqualified, inexperienced and unsuitable for the HR lead role. The answer get Mike's "special friend" out of the company!!!
Cancel all status meetings (there are tools we all are forced to use to acquire and provide status). This should give 20 more hours of time a week to actually complete our deliverables.
Consult architects and developers regarding expected deliverables before signing contracts with customers.
Hire more architects.
Follow change management guidelines.
Use our global personnel and stop allowing people to work out of their time zone to join unnecessary and fruitless calls.
Stop the corporate speak. It’s b---s---, everyone knows it, and it doesn’t foster confidence in the person using it. Use your own words/ideas, if you have any.
Allow employees to remain in our comfort zones.
Stand up to customers when they’re wrong by telling them what they actually need, even when it costs us a contract. (Bad work isn’t worth doing.)
Give all employees a tangible stake in the success of the company and its products.
If you won’t be providing yearly increases and bonuses, then rehire all U.S. employees as contractors; otherwise, give us our f---ing money!
Sell only what they can deliver (sadly very little these days) and deliver what they have sold.
That would be a very good start.
Stop allowing ML to purchase all of these companies. Every few months there is yet a another announcement about "DXC's latest acquisition". There is no silver bullet out there that will fix the issues.
1) There needs to be some common sense - Treat your employees well and they will take care of the company
2) There needs to be leadership that actually have morals - Be honest with employees and clients
3) Take ownership of mistakes - Be transparent to both employees and clients
4) Ditch the shareholder business framework for an employee ownership framework - The CEO needs to be accountable to the employees. The bottom line should never be the driving force of the decision making process, it should be the customers who sign the contracts with DXC.
5) Don't just plug all the "trendy" terms into the company tagline...."Customer focused" ....actually BE customer focused. Heck, look how well it has worked for Amazon! But of course, where would they ever be able to find leadership with those qualities? Most of the places that do have people like that pay them far better than DXC would ever consider paying.
Who am I kidding...I could go on for eternity yet would still be preaching to the choir.
It would be funny as heck to see the "Say Pay" get invoked and MLs salary get depleted to below the poverty limit. But that would take the shareholders actually realizing how they have been played for s---ers. i'm sure those numbers can be interpreted numerous ways and they were not told the most truthful of all the options.
Close down the company, and give the money back to the shareholders
Focusing on custmers.
not sure if I want to answer this question.
How DXC has treathen me, I do not really want to help them anymore.
I am so glad I am out, as I often taught, "if this was my company, I would do it totally different".
And now I have my own company, and can put the things in practise.
New style is based on trust and on etics, and this not only for the employees, but especially for management. DXC was a bunch of mafia managers, that did not care about their staff, and did not hesitate to go for illegal ways to fire people.
but they forgot that all the people they fired, will still be working in IT, and will cross their road again eventually. Call it Karma :-)
Get rid of the middle management left over from the HPE, CSC, HP, EDS, GM years. They are all corrupt and hold grudges, opinions and arrogant personalities. They continue to tear down the employee with there brown nose arse kissing decisions. Put them on the street and let them see how it feels to be out of a job for juse ONCE. They whole leadership team is corrupted.
Mikey's plan for CSC was declining revenues which could be masked by various bits of turmoil caused by acquisitions and divisional selloffs.
It was largely distraction, "the current situation" means that growth isn't now, its "later".
The DXC merger was the biggest distraction of them all and I suspect that if it hadn't been for the hiccup around the AMER leader getting publicly seen as been booted, it would have gone on unquestioned. In fact, my theory was that just as it looked like DXC was approaching stable and integrated (well, what was publicly stated as that), another round of heavy merger/demerger would start that meant that growth was still "soon".
Its a good game, keeping stringing them along. Its Mikey's best party trick.
The previous response is correct, but it will create torment amongst the board. My best estimates have significant digital revenue showing long after traditional ITO business has shriveled away, but how do you fire a CEO that investors seem to love without totally imploding?
With the stock seemingly in the doldrums - despite buy back – firing the man now will cause the market to ask more serious questions and risk breaking below $50. If a growth story is not evident at Q3 when 3/4 FY19 revenues are evident, then it will crunch time! Taking his previous CSC record, how many years of declining revenue?
It is not beyond the ability of a junior or ‘mediocre’ CEO to reduce cost whilst promising ‘Jam tomorrow’ what is needed is a visionary, somebody who succeeded at growing a company! Perhaps, the board would be well advised to bring in a ‘name’ to work alongside ML now as mitigation?
I keep saying it, don't imagine Mikey is making this stuff up for himself. He's not capable of having his own ideas.
What you are seeing at DXC is post-economic growth capitalism. Grinding down the workers to line the pockets of the board and the shareholders.
Your employment becomes precarious, your benefits eliminated, your pay raises not forthcoming.
This is where its at and if there are employers out there not yet pursuing this line, its only because they are behind the curve with "business thinking".
Start treating employees with some respect and empower them rather than treating them like expensive disposable carbon units to be got rid of.
It's too late - Mikey has done his job and it's only a matter of time before he jumps ship and it sinks.
Let ML go.