Anybody else befuddled by the ELT leadership shake-up today?
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Thank you!
@tz CN, VP under RJ.
So it was BW, RJ and who was the third?
@kj To be honest, the use of H1-B IT contractors was already in place for the past 15 or so years. The use of offshore combined with H1-B was intended to be a cost savings. But anyone in IT can tell you, it only gave away the keys to the shop. IT was downsized, losing critical business knowledge. In the beginning, a steady staff of contractors were utilized. As time went on, those knowledgeable contractors were rolled off and replaced with entry or jr level contractors who took forever to come up to speed. Then, it was time to play, "Let's replace vendor A with vendor B. Cycle repeats at least 3 - 4 times over the years. IMHO, biggest mistake.
As for completely outsourcing IT, I can recall from the early 80's, there has been 3 - 4 serious considerations, all nixed at the very last minute. Who knows what will happen this time.
@jv How about bringing in a CEO that didn't even have a college degree, trying to replace IT with H1-B firms, and trying to carve us up for a buyout by Florida Blue? Should we continue with the real "specific" list?
Over the years, the previous direction appeared to have a level of leadership positions that did not actually equate to success in leadership. While removing those members may help the bottom line after their hefty exiting packages are realized, at some point there are questions that still need to be answered.
I am curious to hear from others, to find what specific major leadership directives over the past 4 years were successfully implemented and brought the intended results. The theoretical narratives for justifying the need for the migration may have sounded like the right thing to do, but the manner and timing of this was a HUGE failure and the residual downstream impact may be worst. If Leadership, was adjudicated by the same standard as the associate base significant change would have occurred earlier .
you are beyond full of it. Beyond BP himself, the top issue ki-ling the company is the failed migration and the close second is the loss of talent. All other areas were put on back burners for years while the cult ran the company into the ground.
@f3 What’s with the third, then?
@a4 majority would have guessed 2 out of 3 imo
Feels like just the start of what’s to come.
About time RJ was cut loose, he and his arrogance thought the rules and procedures didn’t apply to him!
Doubt those EVP slots will be backfilled; looks like Kurt and JaRon are consolidating power and implementing the McK playbook. Watch out below.
BW needed to be let go years ago. How can CareFirst be a managed care company, yet not actually manage any care or costs. He took no accountability for all the issues in Health Services and consistently blamed other departments or people. That shake up was needed.
If we surveyed the audience for the 2 ELT members who needed to be let go, there's no way they'd come up with the two that were let go. So, yeah, befuddled is a word we can use