After the failure of his Gigital Transformation Group initiative, and messing up some great resources he just passed the failing team to others to clean the mess.
In EMEAR they passed the resources under another failing useless group (digital acceleration) so an even bigger failure is expected now under Mars, what a great series of leadership failures.
It is the fault of the CEO at this point. He's not responsible for the problems that are there, but he is responsible for the complete failure to address them. He knows how to be a caretaker of a sales organization. Has no idea how to run a company to support product development that feeds that sales organization. That CEO hire was a mistake, go outside for a new one51 before it's too late
It is a uniquely Cisco thing to create a role and layer that no one ever truly understood the value of, then spend the next nine months watching those businesses slow down due purely to internal politics as everyone scrambled in the aftermath, just to pull the rip cord. Literally tens of thousands of management hours spent attempting to justify jobs and enable something that never should have happened.
I feel sorry for everyone under that layer and externally supporting that team that is going to have their careers negatively impacted because their careers were caught up in this.
The VPs will have a lovely "retirement" for the next year or two until they find a new home... it's the G8-12 folks who will feel the pain for a decision they had no part in.
What are GAET, MARS and MA?
OP u have it all wrong. The whole point is the word digital. These jobs in dtg and dat are being digitised!!!!!!!!! Or should that be LR 'd!!!!! Will happen even faster under digital acceleration team!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The ownership of these failures has to be accounted for at the very top, the CEO. The board and Chambers need to realise we need a seasoned CEO to come in and address the catalogue of failures and awful management making these decisions. Immediately every VP and SVP needs to be looked at to establish if they are value and credible or a hanger on, once they fix this issue go down to directors and then build out the org with the right structure in place. If we continue chopping the folk that gets things done (the front line) then (Without waking the PC brigade) to quote a Native American Indian phrase, we will end up all chiefs and no Indian's.
Cisco management do you realise you a harming an amazing company and seriously hurting the people that love it the most. Chambers - remember when you used to talk about the family and really mean it!! Tough love is fine but don't reward consistent failure.
Here I quote @MAborUu-9vaa when he mentioned :
"Life on Mars. The planet Mars does not support sustained lifeform, nothing grows, nothing has ever originated from it and life expectancy is short. When will Cisco wake up and realise that it is rot like this that is crippling it."
So definitely another disaster to happen soon, after adding DTG to Digital Acceleration team in Europe under an even more brilliant leader :)
Yes, what a disaster and waste of Company money. He gets his over $1m usd in comp and contract obligations and we get rubish in return. GAET and GSP under MA to get big haircut in August for sure.