Just wondering if part of the layoff strategy for the past two years has included disproportionate RIFs against the non-EIS part of the company? This question was inspired by the "Paragon" thread posted earlier today.
From what I've seen over the past two years, ever since Allscripts bought EIS ("former McKesson") at fire-sale prices, is that it appears that whenever there are layoffs they're removing more and more of the "legacy" Allscripts people, and that more and more EIS people are being put into middle and upper management positions. To whittle away at duplicate positions is standard practice during merger/acquisitions, it seems like there's been a disproportionate number of non-EIS people getting let go recently.
I have nothing against anyone from the former EIS groups – mostly great people, and some pretty smart cookies mixed in there – but my experience across several BUs has been that as more and more EIS people get involved in the day to day processes around the company the more it seems like they're trying to emulate or re-invent the way of doing business that they used to do at EIS. There generally seems to be a complete lack of adaptation or compromise, it's always a "this is how we used to do it at McKesson so that's how we're going to do it now" mentality. There is a lack of willingness to try or learn new methods or explore different avenues of thought to get things done or transfer old processes utilizing deprecated methods to fit in with the rest of the company. This becomes glaringly obvious when talking with certain groups, at least to me. It seems to fall outside what statistics say two groups mixing should act like.
Several other people I work with on a regular basis have referred to this as "The McKessoning" of Allscripts. "It's what they're comfortable with, so they're trying to reproduce it here" is what I've been told. Two years in, and some groups still can't come to grips with the fact they are not McKesson anymore it seems. Having been around since the Misys days, I've seen any number of people from other merger/acquisitions go through resistance and then eventualy adapt and become part of the whole - I've never seen a group so stuck in the past during any of those other times.
Has anyone else experienced this?
Does anyone have concerns that despite the various idiosyncrasies or faults that Allscripts has had for years or the current virus/social disruption issues we face that large portions of the company now seem hell-bent on duplicating whatever it was that turned McKesson EIS into a bargain bin purchase? In short, is this trend toward duplicating failed practices from another company going to accelerate the disintegration of Allscripts or keep Allscripts from possibly recovering and becoming a strong company again?