Consider what outsourcing IT/IRM says about the downward spiraling division.
The action presents yet another way to induce financial and career pain and suffering for the IT/IRM employees of L-3 CSW. Val can prove how he could care less about people, by choosing to layoff a hundred employees (maybe two hundred?). And he’s betting he’ll get rewarded for it. Doing so will prove to corporate management how cold and ruthless he is. After all bonus time is coming up! (Ebenezer Scrooge would be so proud) IT responsiveness will worsen. We all know too well the SAP disaster and it’s extraordinary impact on performance. The CSW “leadership” announced when they made the horrific mistake, with their gleeful arrogant incompetence that they would “burn the boats” with regard to the legacy system. “No going back” they boasted. Furthermore they spent $140,000,000 to $200,000,000 million (maybe more) and causing tremendous additional cost to producing their ”cost plus” products. It’s so convenient how the American taxpayer picks up the bill for their catastrophe. No one better say anything either; remember who can lay you off!
Just think of what could have been invented, developed or improved if the funds were spent in a smart, strategic way to benefit all departments. CSW once had a unique reputation for being flexible and responsive to meet urgent customer needs. No more. The new company focus has turned to eating the seed corn, (goodbye IT!) protect the senior elite for as long as they can by making it appear like they’re controlling costs, when by the divesting of capability only accelerates the threat from emerging competitors. Although it would be interesting if employees could rate CSW upper management and the executive staff, this is not a democracy. This culture is now a dictatorial, paranoid mess. Regretfully, it’s going to get worse before it gets better, provided there is enough left once being fully gutted to resuscitate.