- Here are some thoughts as you do your initial evaluation and assessment. ITI outsourcing was a failure, The teams are not skilled enough to provide any value to Intel. InfoSec failed projects, over priced tools (think splunk) and neurotic leadership must go. Client systems are overblown paperweights boot time issues l, lockups (think Intel bloat), poor leadership in this organization as well. You have your work cut out for you in this agile (barely) shop.
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Could be worse you could work in information security where I do and have three direct managers that consist of a PO, SGO, FLM and Director all telling me what to do. The new model is EXCELLENT.
Sounds like these IT groups are terrible w/terrible leadership what is being done? Is it nothing?
I am in ITI also, not HPC. The group I am is has no decision making process and they do not have any trust in the people who are doing the work. All communication has to go through the GM, complete micro managing and lack of trust. Decisions are made and then revisited multiple times after people have already started working solutions to that decision all because someone will disagree. No decision is documented or communicated either, just have to hope you are in the right meeting to hear it. Meetings are the other issue, funny how this group is supposed to be helping collaboration in the company, when all they do is have meetings from 5am to 11pm everyday with no time to get work done. The only way to get anything done is to completely ignore the new IT culture direction of "Be Here Now" and multitask. It has become an environment where it is near impossible to be successful and all customers have no faith in you. K–ls the morale and motivation to even care about work. DO NOT WORK IN ITI!
I am in ITI and mostly agree with this. The worst group is HPC. Antiquated attitudes, management styles, and a general attitude that the company could never do without them (WRONG) so aren’t open to change. work ethic in lower ranks are not great due to management issues. Managers don’t really know how to manage people. You don’t need these managers to be the most technical people in the group you need them to have different skills. Like people skills, for one. That would be a great start. Humiliation does not work as a management style. Also would be great if most every employee except high ups could report to someone in their own country. India managers do not effectively manage US employees and vice versa. No matter how great they are. I’m now out of HPC, still in ITI and it’s a completely different experience. People treat each other with respect and listen to each other mostly. It’s not perfect of course but the difference was actually startling.