Thread regarding BD (Becton Dickinson & Co.) layoffs

What shouldn't have been done

Service and support departments use to be ran by people who promoted up in the ranks and learned from their predecessors. Service and support departments were not treated as profit centers, and there is a good reason for that. (will skip those details)

What they decided to do was hire MBAs with Six Sigma certifications to run these service and support divisions, and these people thought they could take some cookie-cutter approach to generating revenue like some corporate office environment like they are at a place like Dunder Mifflen. What happen is that customers with 20 year relationships with BD were caught off guard and when nickeled and dimed over an endless stream of profit-pettiness, they took their business elsewhere.

That was my observation during my 10 years there.

I think @2m6+1jv40nwrb got it right. This cost us many customers for no good reason.

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when an organization values methodology over knowledge, buzz words over understanding, cost savings over service excellence, staff reduction and outsourcing over in house expertise - you get BD. Didn't use to be this way. Too many acquisitions, too many useless PWC consultants who do nothing but power points, bullies in positions of authority belittling those trying to get the job done because they don't want change - well its all a little much. bring on the layoffs. hand raised. I'm ready.

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@br
I know a couple of VPs who got hella rich off those kickbacks. They even get some "extras" on the side besides the cash. IYKYK.

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Post ID: @934+1jwxmtd82

We shouldn't have purchased a failed company like Carefussion and bend over to their whines. We shouldn't have purchased and overpayed for BARD. Our incompetent leaders shouldn't have been allowed to execute unchecked lay offs where we lost the few smart hard working people that care for this place and actually worked hard for it. Yeah, looking directly at you Operations, Supply Chain, and Finance and all your failed egocentric leaders and obsolete processes. We shouldn't have done a lot of things... but here we are. Sinking while our leaders hand lifesavers filled with lead.

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Post ID: @5z0+1jwxmtd82

Consultancies are minting money by providing worst of their resources. And let me tell you, offshoring is not cheap because many consulting companies have to provide monthly kickback to so called leadership.

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Post ID: @br+1jwxmtd82

Another problem was the outsourcing/offshoring of customer (and some tech) support over the last two years. Customers have complained profusely, yet the continued management responses of “don’t worry, it’ll get better” have rung hollow ever since. Add to that the absolute blood culture media disaster of last year being the final nail in the coffin of that business (which BD dominated mere years before), and the lack of any timely product development…the writing was on the wall a long time ago.

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Post ID: @b9+1jwxmtd82

So obsessed with lean and driving costs down in an enabling culture it is like attempting to lose weight by decapitation.

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Post ID: @a7+1jwxmtd82

In BD, politics wins, so the organisation fails every damn time.

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