Try number 2 since the first was deleted for no reason.
iCARE, iLEAD is all smoke and mirrors. Whatever culture is left in McKesson Technology is going to be gone soon.
McK became the company it did by choosing the long stable route over the past two centuries, investing in their employees, building up culture, and putting money into up and coming technologies to drive innovation. Under BT and his hire NF, they have gutted and destroyed the technology group that made McK the company it is today.
The big news bombshell that was dropped? D-mn near all of MT is being outsourced, save a couple pockets being retained for governance, strategy, and architecture. Those being moved to MSP during the short term transition period are given a exit package that has a retaining bonus and severance tied to the employee making it to Nov 11th cutover date. If they leave or are termed prior they will forfeit the package. iCare for the win!
Companies that transition to MSP's end up bringing it back after a few years. Service suffers and innovation will be all but non-existent. The fact is MSP's don't care and aren't invested in the companies success, they just want to get paid, do the bare minimum per the agreement, and MSP employees care even less since they are disconnected from the company success, they get paid regardless, just meet SLA regardless of service quality.
Contrast that to full time employees who on an individual basis get to take pride and ownership into the success of the company. They are directly rewarded for the success of the company. You lose that when you move to an MSP which is why most companies that go the route of an MSP end up seeing the pain brought on by MSP's and end up bringing it back in house.
What is more confusing is what has triggered this move. Most companies that move to an MSP are teetering on the verge of making profit or need to close a gap to make profit, or forecasts show that moving to an MSP will provide some short term boosts to profit margin. McK just had their best year ever, something that can be attributed in large part to the great job MT has done despite the execs slashing IT budgets as the company continues to make larger and larger profits. The executive leadership rewarded MTs contribution by announcing they are outsourcing the large majority of the group that helped enable the success, a move that is not necessary. It is a move solely grounded in squeezing out every bit of profit possible, again a move that is not necessary.
The promises sold by the MSPs to executives rarely pan out and almost always end up being a disaster. Its unfortunate that McK has started down this path. Time will tell how much of an impact we will see from this but its in line with the same mistakes other large companies have made and come to regret.
Any chance the previous CEO and CIO will come out of retirement? Their successors are taking the company down a path that will have a negative lasting impact for years to come. Having been at McK for nearly a decade, it has been a sad sight seeing the downfall of a company who's IT department was a destination like Google, Amazon. It used to draw the best talent around the world, it was one of those companies where people fought to work at, a company people left other companies to go work for. Now it's a sad remnant, the new leadership having gutted the culture, made it toxic, have officially put the final nail in the coffin on whatever remains.