Thread regarding McKesson Corp. layoffs

The epic failure started when Pesce brought Bill Christopher in because he couldn't stand Steve Grochmal. The people Grochmal brought in, promoted and trusted STABBED him in the back and jumped on Christopher's bus. (Those scoundrels included DEV and QA)

"It was never like this when Paragon led in Klas ratings. What changed? Horizon Management took over, agile and offshore.... hmmmm"

Not exactly. This was about the failure of integrating financials with Horizon by HzERM as it was known, due to lies and misrepresentations by HzERM executives. This led to changing a very viable market strategy of one solution for large hospitals and one for small hospitals being shoehorned into a Paragon product that a) misrepresented its own level of integration and scalability (esp. vis-a-vis multi-facility) via Bill Christopher, and b) had managerial concepts from 1957 ("If you don't like it, there's the door"--Jim Pesce). These managerial failures led to turning two products that either had or could be turned around both declining radically. The irony is that what sank Paragon was the growth issues Horizon had successfully solved. If Horizon management had been trusted, if the Paragon culture had been addressed (insular, protective, due to top-down threatening management), even Paragon alone might have had a chance.

Get out. Be proactive before you get laid off. They aren't replacing vacated positions so that tells me the next cut will be RIF. It's hard because you love the business, your customers, or your colleagues but it's worth it to feel motivated and not as worried. Every job has RIF worry but McK seems to be imminent.

Sinking ship

So what does everyone really think about the future of McKesson? How long can a company survive like this?

This ship started sinking a decade ago - they have managed to keep it to a slow leak until the last 4 or 5 years.

'The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results.'

EIS executives had a good thing going when Paragon was built for smaller hospitals. The Horizon ERM failed due to too many management layers and a lot of off-shoring. The product was eventually shuttered due to missing deadlines and poor quality control.

After laying them off, they get hired again to 'help' with Paragon. It's been insanity ever since. These people were let go for a reason. They should have stayed gone instead of destroying another flagship product.

Thank God I don't have to deal with them anymore.

Paragon started it's downhill when Pesce brought Christopher in from Horizon and it has been a downward spiral ever since. All of QA management wiped out and no process. Just get something out the door to whoever was calling them complaining. Now Paragon is cherry pick city..............

It was never like this when Paragon led in Klas ratings. What changed? Horizon Management took over, agile and offshore.... hmmmm

Very true account. And clinicians that have never been listened to or respected when it comes to quality assurance and safety issues are leaving and being replaced by off-shore. It's all about the stock and pensions for senior management...............and it is going to KILL somebody sooner rather than later.

That is so true and most of them are terrible.

Who said we do not have enough Indians to get work done? EIS just added several hundreds offshore Indians :)