I have seen reduction targets ranging from 20-30% for each CIO. Given what I know, I would expect reductions in IT in the 25% range overall.
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Anyone know if more reductions will be targeted at a particular innovation center or will it equally distributed?
VDOC is Van Dyke Office Center in Warren. IT only building.
What and where is VDOC?
VDOC conference rooms booked for the entire week on the first floor
yeah, right. best and brightest and so dedicated they don't buy the cars or encourage others to buy the cars and then whine when the company has to downsize because nobody's buying the cars.
60% of project managers, along with most of the ops team, are id--ts. They should go. I was told I was safe, but I don't care, either way .
The IT locations of Austin,Chandler,Detroit,Roswell, and Warren were chosen so that GM could get the best and brightest IT talent in these locations. It would always be required when insourcing IT because there are only so many high level technology professionals willing to tough out Detroit winters.
Outsourcing would be a complete failure as the time difference, and quality difference American born and bred engineers give you makes all the difference. Anybody that has outsourced IT know what problems occur with it. They overpromise and underdeliver. When you need a new feature in a GPS system that has to run perfectly to maintain confidence in the American public you have to employ the best, and GM IT is the best in business.
IT needs to be gutted... outsource it to India... wtf are you waiting for CFO --- Mary B
Ahmed is safe, don't worry
They need to bring IT back closer to the business. Having IT people over 1000 miles away is almost as bad as it was when outsourced to India. You don't know the business, and you don't care. Can't wait til your CIO gets the boot.
Considering how bloated IT is, that wouldn't be enough.