Thread regarding DXC Technology layoffs

How does DXC stack up against the main competition?

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Good points @ZPdButA-2qph

The leadership churn is entirely because of the toxic environment created by Mikey though.

He doesn't allow middle management the time or freedom to achieve results, instead he aggressively shouts them down and bullies them together with rapidly contradicting direction continuously and flipping it every 12 weeks.

Its the combination of obsessive overbearing control and demands to produce miracles inside of a quarter (12 weeks) that is driving this place over the edge.

Not much can change in 12 weeks of any great significance and multi-quarter initiatives aren't acceptable to him.

After a few times getting the c-ap kicked out of you, you either leave or just do what you are told which ultimately is seen as failure and you are replaced. Rinse and repeat.

This is not how you grow a company but I keep saying, DXC was never destined for a functioning IT player.

As someone else said on here, to drive a $25bn company into the ground at this pace is really quite amazing, if you did nothing it would have fared better than the active self destruction that is going on here. A CEO that just played golf every day would have made more money out of this.

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Post ID: @2nln+ZPdButA

Depends how you measure DXC. It's in the top 100 of global IT service providers. Although many of these lists are compiled by media companies sponsored by the companies they are listing and do not publish any criteria by which they are judged. Garner is usually a well respected guage of business effectiveness, efficienty and impact on society, but they dropped DXC out of the qaudrant and into the dog house this year, so little point looking on there any more. Without innovation, DXC is unlikely to go any higher. I mean its not exactly spaceX or alphabet.

I am not sure what the competition is anymore. DXC's skills were inherited from CSC as mainly consulting and then they merged with HPE and their banking skillset, but oddly decided to butcher both in the hope some digital phonix would rise from ashes. Yet, all that rose was smoke and more smoke.

Accenture is double the revenue; Tata is stratospherically higher than DXC (so not even worth considering in the same ball-park). I suppose infosys, cognizant and wipro are close but all seem to be doing much better in terms of growth and offerings despite the economic downturn. Tata morale is only marginally better than DXC's though. So profit isn't everything. Although at DXC, there is no money or morale.

Cognizant is catching up to DXC as is Capgemini and HCL just inching forward. But at least they are moving forward in growth, revenue and (for some) in innovation.

DXC, as we know, continues to slide backwards both in revenue, skills and growth. DXC's lack of direction and clarity as to what their brand represents in the marketplace does not win over new clients and indeed, loses them quite a few more this year. Goodbye legacy customers but hello new clients...there must be some...somewhere? Anyone?

DXC has suffered its fair share of bad operating model implementations - due to poor consultancy advice and unwillingness to listen to its own people. The curn of leadership has strangled any innovation or momentum. The lack of a digital skillset continues and the end-to-end operation continues to operate to the chaos theory methodology. The direction and a cultural understanding of what the brand represents is now buried and the future looks decidedly bleak for DXC. Whilst it can continue to offset the inevitable demise with more acquisitions, its not gaining any ground on its competition or the shrinking market that the others have left it. Indeed, its losing bids proving that size and money mean diddly squat if you can't deliver.

The shambolic, pathetic enterprise will no doubt creak along dredging its way through its own muddy quaqmire for another 18 months, assuming the leader doesn't retire, to continue to execute on its strategy (less anyone knows what that is, other that continued cost cutting) and continue to lose labour, facilities and clients.

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Post ID: @2qph+ZPdButA

If by competition, you mean the worst companies in America. Then we are #12.

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Post ID: @1eju+ZPdButA

Read about Boeing and their Sw outsourcing for a glimpse into the very near future. As said before all the big companies are the same.

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Post ID: @1hdc+ZPdButA

If you want to know who's buying DXC, its the buyer who already has the capability that DXC are removing.....

Just for laughs...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=THNPmhBl-8I

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Post ID: @1vxf+ZPdButA

Any of the other large ITO/MSP companies are shrinking and dying too.

If you search somewhere like The Register you will see stories about job cuts and site closures from them all.

The market is contracting, probably by about 10% a year.

What you don't tend to see with the others though is the random savagery that you get with DXC. The others tend to cut more slowly and with specific ends in mind, but with DXC its just blood and body parts all over the floor.

I mean, 45% of America's security cut for example:

https://forums.theregister.co.uk/forum/all/2019/06/24/dxc_technology_axe_security_division/

How could you possibly need something as old fashioned as security eh?

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Post ID: @1yri+ZPdButA

DXC isn't even in the game anymore and hence has no competition.

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Post ID: @1xmt+ZPdButA

It doesn’t .

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Post ID: @1iqo+ZPdButA

Let's be frank, any old school ITO is part of an armada of sinking ships.

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