HPE gives execs a jiggle and merges subsidiaries in shrivelling Pointnext Hewlett Packard Enterprise is rejigging execs and consolidating subsidiaries in its last remaining tech services division Pointnext – a business that has shrunk year-on-year for almost half a decade. In a memo to staff – seen by us – HPE confirmed Herbert Rastbichler as the shiny new Pointnext leader for EMEA from August 1, …
"The plan is to concentrate on providing more advisory, professional and operational services to customers fumbling in the digital darkness, looking to send more workloads to the cloud. The unit will also heavily push managed services on Flex Capacity – converged-infrastructure-as-a-service."
Oh dear, sounds very much like Amazon ate their lunch, their breakfast and probably most of their dinner.
"Services have never been more critical to the HPE business and roadmap,"
So why did you spin off Enterprise Services then?
"Now more than ever, customers are looking for a trusted partner to help them on their transformation journeys."
Almost word-for-word what DXC Technology (partly ex-Enterprise Services) are saying they are trying to do...
No, you cannot. You have not been able to do that thus far, and you keep shuffling people around (or allowing them to shuffle themselves) in order to provide excuses for why your business continues to shrink, year after year. None of these realignments have anything to do with providing a streamlined or otherwise more efficient customer experience. They are all about obfuscating the fact that this dinosaur of the company is rapidly falling.
Far, far too many layers of management of people who have been there for decades and feel that "This is the way we have always done it" is a defensible motivation for an action (or more usually inaction).
The Register 
Biting the hand that feeds IT
Copyright. All rights reserved © 1998–2024
