Can someone please enlighten me regarding automation that our leadership keeps talking about? All I see around me are lesser people but same amount of work and lot of it being manual. So where is this automation unicorn hiding?
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Waiting for Steve Austin to use his bionic skills. Maybe it's better to reflect on "Get Smart" and KAOS?Not hard to see similarities at DXC.
Gotta laugh. We had an email the other week. Cancelling our license for MS Project. So all planning now done in excel.
Mikey is blowing hot air again. Everyone is starting to realise that the little fat man annot grow a business. He's just cut the life out of two major corporations whilst talking about transformation that isn't happening. The DXC investors are getting restless for growth. Mikey cannot grow a business and he's now in the hot seat!
I tried to transplant the DXC server decommissioning process into another client and the 2-4 week process was chopped down by the CIO to be 10 minutes end-to-end, even with change management. Now that's a great example of innovation and automation which not even ML could sell to a DXC client.
More sales droids are needed to pump sh-- like this.
DXC and Mikey only care about stock price and maintaining a perception on Wall Street that IT jobs in the near future will either all be outsourced to third world countries or replaced by a robot or algorithm. The big push for automation plays right into Wall Street’s ultimate desire to not have to pay people decent wages to do work.
Two sorts of things DXC has right now:
1) The Million Dollar Man. Its Mikey. If only it was one million and not 45.
2) "Our Mess for More" - despite having engineered an organisation collapsing in delivery and client base quicker than if you'd got some demolition engineers in to wire the place with explosives, the board are paid more than ever.
I don't know if any of you outside of the UK have heard of the UK's latest megacorp disaster, but go look up Carillion... it has some awfully familiar aspects...
I see 2 types of automation...
Type 1 - For marketing. You are laying off a significant part of the work force, you want the clients to feel okay about it, so you market "automation". "Your still getting great service even though we canned the only people who know how to make it work because of automation!" (actually the folks that are left are just working 80 hours a week and if they did have a clue it wouldn't matter because they are so burned out)
Type 2 - Real automation. You build a tightly controlled product, like a cloud service and to keep costs down and maintain quality while you scale up and add clients, you automate. The key is tightly controlled product. Not a "your mess for less".
Bionics is another one they keep talking about. What's that, our own Million Dollar Man or something? Complete bull.
It's a classic smoke and mirrors ploy to grind a couple more years out of DXC before it completely collapses. Mikey doesn't even believe in it he just pretends he does in an attempt to keep investors interested. There is a huge future in automation and it will slowly materialise over the next couple of decades but, with the lack of any true visionary thinkers and talented leadership, DXC will not be one of the players.
right now its just a sales job, a talking point, a shiny object that Mikey and the minions can point to to show how DXC is on the bleeding edge of digital transformation.... something like that.
Will certain portions of certain jobs be automated, yes, no doubt in my mind. But it will not happen at the pace that Mikey would prefer it to happen.
And I will add that DXC is ill-equip to take on such a task. Considering how project management is still in the dark ages using excel spreadsheets and email for project management. The convoluted process to get a server built and into production. Don't get me started on decommissioning a server.
No offence, I doubt we have the talent (or maybe its the leadership) anywhere to lead such a charge.
If you were seeing automation actually happening you'd be seeing money spent on one or more (expensive) automation toolsets and people hired who were expert in configuring them.
Have you seen this?
No you haven't, because there is no way Mikey is spending cash on anything.
If he's "automated" anything its an excel macro that takes names from WorkDay and choose people to RIF.
It's all Bull crap. Lets see Mikey automates debugging firewall issues.
It is all in Mikey’s Imagination and is all nonsense. People are being released based on this logic, and the company will never ever recover