I understand that it costs a lot, but I am afraid that it will cost this company a lot more if it continues to neglect the necessity of investing in digital transformation. The situation as it is now is awful.
Every investment carries a risk, but this lack of investment is the path to a sure sinking of the company. Once a business reaches a critical point, then it’s even harder to fix things because it can be too late.
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Invest into Cloud business ? Cloud is dead..., at least in some places
in Germany the whole ITO cloud team will be sacked next week, "it is no strategic topic in Western Europe anymore"....Of course, offering cloud tec out of low cost centers and demanding outrageous prices from customers in high cost countries, this is the great plan and surely will save the new DXC..
M2's core strategy seems to be enforced corporate smiling and seizing the market.
It's not exactly a detailed plan some might say.
Some might even go as far as to say maybe he doesn't know what he's doing...
Yeah, bionix was a couple of scripts and a well crafted PPTX that only 10 people in the company could pitch! DXC is now reaping M1 deliberate under investment designed to save cost - he was not a builder, had no foresight and did not understand the business.
M2 is angry, he knows all this as he saw it first hand, his frustration is classic school ground psychology, ignore it, hopefully it will go away! He gets angry as he *also does not understand the business! "you can leave, or stay and continue to serve tea from the chocolate Teapot".
Surrounding yourself with mates that used to make things go away is not the answer... It needs replacement of middle management with people who understand perhaps senior delivery team members - who also know the wheat from the chaff wrt redundancies.
The ship is sinking *all are aware, it cannot be saved without investment - before the capable staff have all left.
A DXC client told me last year that they tendered for cloud migration and narrowed it down to 2 local cloud solution companies, based on client reference from another similar business via some collaborative business forum of best practice attended by companies in the same sector.
The client saw DXC simply as good network and infrastructure vendor but no good at projects or anything more complex as DXC kept complaining that it didn’t have the skills - and this is the client telling me this! It appears DXC had little credibility with this client when it comes to digital transformation. The client told me that DXC have suffered a lot of attrition in the past year (2019. -2020) and dislike the lack of continuity this has caused.
I do know this client didn’t take kindly to a DXC sales guy who visited them, as the sales guy wanted to push his own agenda without actually listening to the client’s needs or making any attempt to understand the client’s business and clearly ~ they said - had no knowledge of their business sector. It was this that led the client to choose a recommended local country digital cloud specialist (rather than the preferred supplier route) to manage their digital migration for them. They are now considering investing in moving their remaining on_premise kit away from DXC and into Azure where they can administer and provision platforms Vlans, SaaS, LaaS whatever at the click of a button.
I didn’t realise how much influence a poor sales guy could have on causing reputation damage to the DXC brand. But Iam sure a new logo will fix that and demonstrate to clients like this that tDXC changed from the evil pumpkin to a broken chain.
Did they invest anything in the first place? Dromoron, the CIO, hasn't done much to improve the situation and we don't think Digital. Under Mike Mk2 we are an old school managed IT service provider living of legacy technology. Look at the cloud sales and remember Mike Mk2 told us all customers don't want cloud....