Thursday, July 15, 2010

The start of the IBM disaster

Today is a kickoff of sorts. Within a month, we will all be spending 2 hours of our mornings talking to people in India. I hope to learn Hindi in the process.
What seems disastrous to me is this: The current structure has a manager and more than 10 systems analysts. The manager is a business analyst of sorts, but all the systems analysts are also business analysts. The systems analysts are slated to be layed off, but a small number will be retained as business analysts, assuming they are willing and available to do so. There doesn't seem to be any transition plan there. People will leave and take their business knowledge with them. Wouldn't it be more logical to either hire new business analysts and have them train now or to start transitioning people into business analyst roles now to absorb as much info as they can? Just not the way things are done here.

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