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DXC Technologies is splitting with exec veep and general manager Mike Nefkens - previously the boss for HPE Enterprise Services before the spin merger with CSC - amid a massive shake-down of the exec line-up. The move was confirmed in a memo to the troops by CEO Mike Lawrie who said the business had been through a “great deal …

  1. Richard Crossley
    Stop

    SABA Cloud Employee Skills Profile

    I guess they didn't comply with the email "Important Reminder: SABA Cloud Employee Skills Profile Update and Resume Upload".

    http://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/01/16/dxc_execs_set_yet_another_deadline_for_skills_profiling/

    1. smudge
      Windows

      Re: SABA Cloud Employee Skills Profile

      ....or maybe they did, and it became clear that they had no skills worth retaining.

  2. Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward

    'Fine Tuning'? I think not..

    Replacing EIGHT L2/L3s is rather more than 'fine tuning'.

    I wonder how many of the 8 are going because they disagreed with Mr Lawrie?

  3. Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward

    Mike Nefkens is gone

    Mike Nefkens is gone and he was the biggest hitter to come from the HP Enterprise side.

    Does looks like CSC managment is taking over the main running of DXC which will probably not be a good thing (from pre HP/HPE staff persepective)

    1. Miss Lincolnshire

      Re: Mike Nefkens is gone

      Did you seriously think he was going to stay beyond the first allocation of executive bonuses and share options? He was Whitman's bagman, the courier designated to hand HPE ES over to the lunatic asylum and then get the hell out.

      Job done as far as Nefken's is concerned.

  4. Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward

    Too little, too late

    Crap company, crap management and a crap service.

    Someone stick a fork into DXC - it’s done.

  5. zamorkhan

    Earning the Christmas Bonus

    Well it had to happen that the big boys get hit this year. Mr "hatchet" Lawrie earned himself 41 million dollars last year for axeing half the staff in the company, there are not enough staff left to earn him a quarter of a million dollars this year so he will need to hit some of the massive earners. How else will he afford a turkey for Thanks Giving !!!!

  6. Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward

    DXC Employees - let’s have a vote?

    Let Mikey know exactly how you feel about these emails detailing his wonderful company and his cronies.

    ⬆️ DXC really are a world-class company and Mikey is a true inspirational leader

    ⬇️ Really couldn’t give a flying f*** what this odious smug little man says

    Cast your votes using the arrows below

    1. Anonymous Coward
      Anonymous Coward

      Re: DXC Employees - let’s have a vote?

      I'm torn... the post itself is really worth an upvote but downvote duly given.

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  8. Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward

    Report direct to Mike...

    How much spare time does this Superman have? He already seems to have his hands full approving any business expense of more than $5

    1. Anonymous Coward
      Anonymous Coward

      Re: Report direct to Mike...

      $5 expenses without pre-approval? No such thing at DXC - every single cent on expenses has to be pre-approved or it get's refused!

  9. Cartimand

    So most of the smaller rodents have long since been kicked off the floundering vessel DXC, with the sensible ones having taken the enhanced VR terms offered last year.

    Now the large capybaras and coypus are starting to make a splash off the side too.

    Must be time for another spin merge. Should call the new company Oozlum as it swirls around in ever decreasing circles.

  10. Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward

    Corporate speak translation...

    > The final part of DXC - Deliver - is also undergoing a make-over with the business split into regional account delivery; offering delivery; core delivery; and delivery enablers.

    Corp speak translation service provided free of charge:

    - account delivery == sales

    - offering delivery == Pagan sacrifice (so not that different to sales)

    - core delivery == An apple a day keeps the doctor away, but not the boss unfortunately

    - delivery enablers == the staff actually doing the work?

    1. Anonymous Coward
      Anonymous Coward

      Re: Corporate speak translation...

      On this level it doesn't differ much from what was there before. Really important changes are on lower level, in new operating model. I don't know CSC side, but for former ES these changes will be revolutionary. And will give lots of possibility for further WFRs of course (it has cost reduction written all over it)

      "offering delivery == Pagan sacrifice (so not that different to sales)"

      Actually it differs a lot. While accounts are really a salesmen like you say, these pagan priests decide (partially) what this company would like to sell and (fully) how to implement and deliver that later when already sold. These are actually the most important roles in whole organization

      core delivery - this is the staff actually doing the work - but they are dying species, it's main target for automation. And they are going to automate big time.

      delivery enablers - stupid name, these are basically different tools support/development teams and other support functions.

  11. Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward

    HTTP error 590

    A few weeks back, I wrote up a little Internet-Draft for local circulation defining a new HTTP error code: 590 Intransigent infrastructure operator.

    Apropos of nothing, 590 in Roman numerals is DXC.

  12. Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward

    Night of the Long Knives

    So all the major execs who would form any opposition to Lawrie have gone.

    This company isn't a Board run company. It is the private plaything of Mike Lawrie. The Nick Wilson resignation is a classic - he went when Lawrie changed the numbers UK&I had to achieve without telling him. Then Lawrie interviewed and appointed an exec without consulting him. So Wilson gave Lawrie the two fingered salute. Like Whitman before him, Lawrie has destroyed the lives of thousands of people around the world. He did it in the CSC world. He is now culling everyone in sight who would remotely disagree with his ego. Nefkens and others will not be missed. The writing was on the wall. These guys already knew this when they started to cash in their share options last year.

    DXC is losing all the big clients that they inherited from HPE, most of these were already inherited from the EDS days when EDS, with IBM were the global leaders in services - a time when CSC was already on the decline. So DXC is going the way of CSC. CSC and HPE merged , but it was in fact a CSC takeover with HPE execs handling the deal taking a payoff.

    1. whileI'mhere

      Re: Night of the Long Knives

      "This company isn't a Board run company. It is the private plaything of PRESIDENT, CHAIRMAN and CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER, Mike Lawrie."

      FTFY

      (Appropriate corporate governance also not a big thing in Lawrie's world.)

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