Rise and Fall of an Information Technology Outsourcing Program: a qualitative Analysis of a Troubled Corporate Initiative
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Rise and Fall of an Information Technology Outsourcing Program A
A non-champion takes over SSP.
Following William’s resignation, Richard assigned responsibility for SSP to Nancy, who was an experienced director on his team. One employee recalled Nancy’s initial reaction to receiving this assignment: 199 Nancy has said to me a couple of times somewhat joking, somewhat not, “The day that Richard told me I was getting SSP, I felt like I was punished.” Nancy was coming in with this, “I don’t really want to deal with this [SSP]. It’s not fun. It’s not mine. It’s a different model than I’m used to.” ComTech is having to deal directly with that . . . I think you’ve got a director, with all due respect, that has a new space, [and a] new model [i.e. SSP]. We’ve got people flying left and right from the new [layoffs]. [She is] now trying to deal with ComTech that [sic] she doesn’t know, [and] she’s not comfortable with [SSP]. It’s too much change for her. Too much change for a lot of people. It’s not Nancy. I’m actually a fan of Nancy. So far, she’s done a nice job. It’s just like, “I don’t even have my own team dealt with, I don’t want to deal with you [ComTech].” . . . She literally can’t even see straight, and then she’s getting escalations about stupid shit from our [application] testing [team] that ComTech didn’t do a test script right. (Employee, personal communication, February 11, 2014) ComTech’s fate in many respects landed in the hands of an unwilling recipient. Unlike both Donald and William who viewed SSP as a significant stepping stone or probationary crucible in their moral career (Goffman, 1961), Nancy wanted nothing to do with it. This further restricted ComTech’s access to social and cultural capital (Bourdieu, 1983/1986) at Icarus. Richard’s waning support as a champion also worked against ComTech: Richard has given ComTech the message that he’s the only reason why they’re still here so they better get their act together, [because] the rest of the Icarus VP [vice president] leadership doesn’t want them anyway. We’ll just pull it [SSP] back [from ComTech] . . . My perspective is Richard has always felt the pressure from multiple of his peers on this model. It’s radically different than what we do. . . He’s always been able to lean on his 200 team, to be able to go, “Okay. We’re going to go. We’re going to make this happen.” Insert Nancy, “I’m not interested. This is a thorn in my side. Make it go away.” . . . The thing is we’ve done it. Now is not the time. We’ll call it the eleventh-and- a-half hour. Actually, it’s probably the twelfth hour, to be determining whether we’re going to do it. We’ve done it. My perception is he [Richard] is probably absolutely exhausted from several years of resistance, several years of trying to prove things to people. At this point in the game [he] is going, “If ComTech isn’t going to grab this thing and run with it, I’m exhausted of justifying it.” (Employee, personal communication, February 11, 2014) Richard’s motivations, or options, for assigning Nancy to lead SSP were not attainable during this research. It is reasonable to surmise that Nancy was Richard’s only option. More puzzling is Nancy’s outright and open challenge to the SSP strategy itself given Richard’s role as its primary champion. Nancy had not been close to the SSP work, and had little knowledge of the events within the program over the previous three years. Given Richard’s declining support for ComTech, it is possible he looked to Nancy either as SSP’s only chance for turnaround and success, or the best candidate to help unwind and decommission the program if that proved to be opportunistic in the future. By the time Nancy took over SSP, the general sentiment among many executives, including Richard, was that ComTech’s account leadership was failing, and their poor performance had placed SSP at serious risk. At “the eleventh-and-a-half hour,” Nancy looked for a way to undo the Strategic Staffing Program. Download 1.05 Mb. Do'stlaringiz bilan baham: |
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