To be transparent management, VP and below or not the problems here but the executive board and the previous CEO. People can talk about how nice he was and how personable he was, but the fact is that he had no idea how to run the company that had such a spike in revenue and he did not have the proper person to help him manage that furthermore is confused as ever misguided business propositions misguided directives to other management, and a simple lack of understanding of how to agree. True they may be people of high positions in other companies, but the fact of the matter is they haven’t the fest of ideas of how to run a staffing company that had so much growth in revenue and then have a downturn in the market to deal with that is the problem with what’s wrong with Medical Solutions. Until the board gets things straight with themselves and understands that they or at least some of them are out of their league and new board members are put in place. The fear is that the new CEO and CFO will only be there short time before discovering that the company needs serious help at executive level, that’s not necessarily anything that anyone below the executive board can fix it Hass to be fixed with the executive board until they fix themselves, turmoil will continue.
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Agree completely with the two replies regarding non-technical individuals being in charge of technical departments. The ERP “implementation” was a disaster of epic proportions due to systems being forced into production before they were ready because of an arbitrary deadline set by the now-defunct former CFO and other non-tech individuals. This despite the fact that I, along with a small group of individuals (SMEs), were contacted at 3:00PM on a Friday afternoon and “told” we were expected to test items Saturday and Sunday in order to meet the arbitrary deadline. I
Last reply nailed it. The tech org is and has been run by incompetent management for a very very long time, vps included. Good luck digging out of the hole with the same shovel.
VPs are absolutely part of the problem, too, and some of the more senior managers. There are a lot of non-technical people with oversight of technical programs, and those I worked with took anything short of enthusiastic agreement as negativity. Technical aptitude aside, project management skills were atrocious. Completely unrealistic deadlines, rolling out unfinished, essentially non-functional projects, and then having to re-work and re-work over and over.
The month I didn't have a job su-ked, but being laid off has ended up an tremendous blessing.