People don’t leave bad companies, they leave bad bosses. That is for sure. I wouldn't like to discuss our current one, because we all know what the current leadership is like, but I am interested in what you think would would be their first moves if we actually had good leadership here?
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@4hlz+1efE7NwR - good point, although managers including L7 and below need to be vetted, checked and to sharpen them up - reapply for their jobs every 2-4 years with full 360 degree feedback from their sub'ordinates. For the ones that don't hit the mark then make them redundant - get rid of the drossy and pen pushing managers from DXC Technology.
Then the company will have chance to flourish and to succeed, though that Mikey 2 would sort out the inefficiencies with DXC, seem to been too much for the CEO, CFO and the upper management to fix.
There are 11 layers at DXC, mk2 is L11, steak cutter is L10, they can cut L8-11 and it’ll probably be better off, since L1~L5/6 do all the work, DXC wouldn’t be bogged down by useless paper pushing managers and the exec suits from the higher levels.
majority of the residual contracts are indeed legacy work, the sort its not worth the clients taking business risks by moving - so they move the business/apps to newer environments and select newer service providers to manage these environments and DXC keeps the lights on in the old environment until eventually its no longer required - its called "Managed decline" as the business model for DXC ... Its the equivalent of MicroFocus in the software world, where old services go to die ...
I wonder what kind of contracts DXC has left at this point. Is the company primarily supporting legacy work for existing clients? Is that its best case business model?
The legacy companies that made up DXC at its inception, may have been dynamic players capable of creating new business. What DXC has become is probably much different.
Take some training, update your resume, and get some interview practice!
The ONLY way forwards at this point is basically decapitation of the management.
Everyone from CEO down maybe 5 levels needs to go. They need to go immediately. Then, and only then, can a new team hope to move DXC forwards.
But that's not the plan; DXC looks more and more like a pump&dump penny stock, just waiting for the next su---r to come in.