I'm trying to imagine a situation in which DXC would get a new leadership that finally wants to fix this company. Since DXC has a lot of issues, I'm wondering where to start. What would be the priority changes that are absolutely necessary!? Also, is it too late for something like that?
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Any potential new leader will perform some investigation of DXC before taking on the role.
They'll do one of two things:
- Take it on, knowing that the company is so damaged that the only thing to do is keep running it down, sell of anything of value, and ki-l off what's left
- Run, and not join DXC at all
Mikes 1 & 2 have now done so much damage that the company is beyond saving. I left a while ago. My new employer is a tech consulting firm that has grown 24% in FY21, and is on track for a further 20% growth in FY22. Other firms in the sector are also seeing double-digit growth. The fact that DXC is managing to shrink, whilst most of its competitors are growing tells you everything you need to know.
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+1j8ua1lh - all future lies ahead at DXC is a piece by piece sell off profitable parts before a final Fire sale - doesn't matter one bit to Mcshouty and Steakcutter 2 for the employees still at this cesspool of the company - they are still $$ in - if the company crashes like a stone.
Yes, your fantasy new leadership will come from a PE company. They will be leading the efforts to carve up and sell off the profitable bits and let the others die a natural death when contracts run out etc.
Far too late for a new leadership team - that time was when Mikey2 was appointed and he brought in his new Accenture team. That has patently failed (well not for their salaries but for the company) and so its onto the private equity carve up and sale of assets - Mikey2 and his friends have had their professional reputation trashed by the experience but they are not likely to care given the final payout coming as DXC disappears as a listed company
No, I can’t see anyone willing to take on such complex chaos, it would require too much investment in getting the right skilled leadership people installed in too many areas of the business at scale in an acceptable timeframe.
The buisness needs to be broken up and sold off in pieces at this point. Its gotten to big and there's just too much chaos. Even a qualified managment team would have trouble cutting through all the weeds. The assets are valuable if they get complete focus and attention.