The decision to heavily rely on outsourced talent involved thousands of individuals. However, this strategy did not produce the anticipated outcomes. Despite the large scale of outsourcing, the expected benefits in terms of performance improvement, cost savings, or productivity gains were not realized. This situation raises questions about the effectiveness of outsourcing such significant numbers and the challenges it may pose to achieving organizational goals.
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The Ascension Technology IT department is the worst I have worked for, and any healthcare outsourcing to India will run that product/hospital into the ground. But HCL, should be illegal in the USA. Good thing Ascension in Michigan was bought out by MyMichigan, will be their saving grace.
I know a former coworker that went back. I asked him if they doubled his pay. Of course they did, otherwise he's a fool. Even still, I'm not sure how smart that move was. They could double what I make now (and I doubled what I made when I left Ascension) and I wouldn't go back.
After this outage, i think ascension should be forced to break up like the phone system did in the 80s. Its gotten to big and the risk to providing healthcare in major metropolitan areas in the event of a planned IT attack shows how vulnerable we are. Can you imagine if hackers hit 2 or more large healtcare providers at the same time. You could take out all the hospitals in an entire region.
Unfortunately, Ascension got rid of Amita health and they also did away with Presence health and they spun off advent health (Adventist). Basically, they have a knack for sc--wing themselves. And this time they sc--wed themselves, big time. They pay for it in the long run. They have to get rid of the indian companies like HCL. HCL is full of big time Losers. They were so convinced HCL could save them money. When in reality it ended up costing them millions and millions of dollars, and it hasn't ended yet. Ha Ha
This is true. They had an open house or something in Milwaukee and no one wants to work for them. Fool us once, but not twice.
Maybe the board will see the light and fire the Eddie CONman, since this was all his idea and doing.
Their arrogant attitude toward IT and belief that anyone including underpaid undertrained overseas programmers could do the job will cost them millions.
Saw good friends insulted and riffed with no warning. Or transfered to an overseas team until they trained a replacement then fired.
That karma thing is real. But the staff will suffer with no raises/cuts and the VP's will still get there bonus. Sad.
It's a "Christian organization" that did this to their employees in the middle of a pandemic. It took me over a year to find a new gig after that. The sad thing for Ascension is this is their lot in life now, even if they wanted to bring it back inhouse, who would they find that would want to work for them?