We all know DXC is not good, but the rot started with the antecedent companies, HPE and CSC, HP was rubbish for years before the sell off/merger in 2017, clueless managers, teams on the ground doing their best without leadership amidst constant change. It’s a good job HMG is preoccupied with BREXIT otherwise they would be having kittens about what’s going on!
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Th UK Govt has a short memory when it comes to 'cowboy' suppliers. The $11 billion CSC fiasco that was the NHS Programme for IT and the subsequent lorzeno mess that took another $7B to stabilise is stuff that is easily forgotten.
You'd think they Govt would never use CSC again. But hey, what if - when the public and Commons Public Account Committee have had their say - that these dubious suppliers come back with a different name and pedigree, call themselves DXC for example, and pretend to be capable? You guessed it, they get awarded a nice, new contract to assist with the transformation of the NHS’s procurement and logistics arm as part of the Department of Health and Social Care’s (DHSC) Procurement Transformation Programme (PTP).
It's business and the public and the government have short memories.
Is Mickinsey a share holder? The arrogance of the team is astounding. In the UK, India, anz and the us. They are like body guards you don’t see HR lady or Mikiey with out them. They are rude and in over their heads.
I don't think there were many ITO companies that were free of trauma after 2000 when Wall Street decided that now the internet was built, IT companies had no future.
First came the tidal wave of offshoring, then came the 2008 financial crash and finally all of the stupidity around on-premise private cloud when it was quite obvious that Amazon filling buildings with custom hardware would eventually make that pointless because you can't compete with the Bezos Bit Barns.
Then came the varying degrees of psychopathic leaderships that attempted to cut the companies up to make them as lean as Amazon.
In CSC's case there was a further bump in the road when the pre-Mikey CEO decided that attempting a record breaking deal with the UK's National Health Service was a smart move and the subsequent $1.5 billion loss combined with financial irregularities saw him out the door and Mikey in.
If it hadn't been for the stupid NHS project, CSC would never have had Mikey and things would have been different for us all.
Probably not a whole load better (if you consider my earlier points) but definitely not the insanity of DXC.
You are right. Lawrie was busy ruining CSC for 5 years before CSC took over HPE. Constant job cuts, delivery failings, clients leaving, shrinking revenues, revolving door leadership, McKinseys calling the shots at vast expense!
You are spot on.