Thread regarding Cisco Systems Inc. layoffs

Will this problem ever be solved?

How many customer meetings do our AMs/ PSSs have each week? Sedge? BSAs? What about CX roles we have added? What about all the hyperspecialists? (Please tell me why we need that my AppD specialists considering the revenue or the army of Meraki PSS/ TSAs (especially when it's the easy product to sell/ adopt).
Time to clean this sh-t up. Yet, it's almost impossible to have consistent metrics when we don't insist on commons systems and tools. Nearly a decade after acquisition, Meraki still has their own SFDC instance, goaling system (this is why Meraki is not adopting iACV), and separate leadership chains.
This is one of the big problems in Cisco..no real data so we have no real plan. It's all who puts together the best powerpoint and/ or plays the best politics.
And, then, when layoffs come around, people wonder why it's so random as to which teams are impacted or it's just peanut butter spread to everyone with no strategic plan : @1iyl+1eXgEVGR

Absolutely true! It is impossible to have a real plan without the real data.

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@1jix+1eZmQn8v yeah because Meraki is selling soooooo well. What a great revenue source! /s

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Meraki stays separate because they know how to run a business. If Meraki would be integrated into the rest of Cisco, it would be the end of Meraki as we know it. The broader Cisco sales leadership would ruin Meraki sales. The direct core sales leadership would destroy Meraki business with their inept approaches. They have done this with most acquisitions. Meraki fights to stay separate and for good reason.

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Post ID: @1jix+1eZmQn8v

I think the real problem is portfolio (account) people are spread too thin across too many products. In a perfect world one person would be able to cover it all, at least to some depth, but it’s just not realistic. Our competitors are hyper focused on a handful of products. We can’t compete against that.

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Post ID: @hit+1eZmQn8v

The first two letters of BSA is “BS”. Says it all.

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