Return to Article: IBM official says company's experience holds lessons for agencies
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Didn't IBM just announce plans to lay off thousands more workers? Unless IBM is going to advise DHS about layoffs (or RIFs as they are known in federal service), I don't think much of their "advice". The IBM experience bears little resemblence to the forced amalgamation of dozens of agencies with different missions, histories, and cultures into a "feel-good" artificial creation called DHS, which was purely a political knee-jerk reaction to 9/11. This merger created chaos, and did little to make our country safer. What is has done is cost American taxpayers billions of dollars for little measurable progress. IBM, when your own house is in order, then come and tell us what to do!
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As a senior vice president of IBM, she has led the company's elimination of unnecessary business processes and creation of new cultural values
If she is so successful why is IBM stock tanking?
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"A blogging jam could enable employee concerns to reach management's ear."
"For a jam to be successful, Sanford said organization leaders have to express support and follow through on employee suggestions."
Essentially, this would be very similar to the 30-day public comment period that DHS had for its new personnel system. As we saw with that, 99% of the comments made were vehemently negative. As we also saw, DHS forged ahead with the proposal without even entertaining the idea of taking any of the comments, suggestions, or concerns into account. The comments were summarily ignored. Therefore, why should anyone have any reason to believe that a "blogging jam" would enable employee concerns to reach "management's ear", or that organization leaders will "express support" and "follow through" on employee suggestions?
The comment period was proven to be nothing more than a technicality; something that DHS did just to say they had done it. In reality they already had the new personnel system lined up and ready to go, with no consideration of any modifications despite what comments would be received. The decision had been made and set in stone before that comment period. Any "blogging jam" created by DHS or the Defense Department will be no more useful than the 30-day comment period on the new DHS personnel system. It will be just another lie in which department executives will pretend to care about employee concerns and suggestions when in reality they do not.
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Great, watch DHS spend $50 million on World Jam, collect 20,000 comments, read none of them, and then send out a press release trumpeting values like "integrity" and "dedication."
Does this strike anyone as yet more management gobbledygook? Is there anything to being a "high-level official" in government or industry besides the ability to BS all day long? What rubbish!
DHS would be better off spending its money on Strawberry Jam. Or Space Jam. That was a good movie.
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