Thread regarding Ford layoffs

That may have been the reason Alan retired 18 months before he intended too! I have no idea if this will work? But if they want FORD E to work, they have to staff it with outsiders Otherwise we have VISTEON 2.0.
This is a big gamble. A lot is riding on it. Is the market ready? Is the grid system set up for this?
I do know this the morale is in the tank. People will not go the extra mile for this place on the Ford Blue side.

@OP of course Mullaly was not a fan of it. He was never a fan of inefficiency, empires, redundancy, gaslighting, and finger-pointing backstabbers.

Yes and at one time, didn't Ford disperse "core" engineers to Small Car, Trucks etc groups. That didn't work . . .

Complex, inefficient solutions typically are more attractive to Ford management. These solutions demand more time, more money, and more people, which are the best justification for more management responsibilities, i.e., promotion.

Simple and effective tools and methods are always challenged from all levels. Managers don't want to lose budget and HC for improved efficiency. Peers don't want because their lack the ability to transform.

Combine these two, budget and HC issues will come every 3-5 years while the fundamental does not change. The same show must go on.

Ah yes the PomPom shaking cheerleader. Epic failure after epic failure. Each failure getting her a promotion as she “learned so much from her failures”. Never did learn how to spot the snake oil salesmen or how to listen to the capable knowledgeable technicians. Always chose the glittery million dollar solution to a $100 problem. That is the promotional path at Ford.
After watching the Ford SShow, they would be far better off just purchasing Infrastructure as a service and cloud services. And then just shut down most of Ford and Ford Credit IT.
The widely touted Ford Data Center of the Future, was a relic from jump. And there are plans to decommission all but one data haul now. They would of been far better off using IBM Boulder and/or Raleigh data centers and AWS instead.

“Ford’s technology department has officially shifted into second gear under CIO Marcy Klevorn. The automobile maker has restructured its IT processes to incorporate technology experiments that can be hastily abandoned…designed to help Ford winnow out bureaucracy, making IT service delivery more efficient.
…says Klevorn, “We’re going to try some things and learn.””

Clearly, Ford learned nothing from Marcy’s experiment, made nothing more efficient, and should have downshifted faster to hastily abandon Marcy.