So Blaze is gone. Surgical Supplies falls under CB. How long until the GSP team gets let go and their products go to the AST bag? 7 Months or 1 Year and 7 months?
What happened to Steve? Poor performance, not meeting the number or merger preparation to make sure the book is clean?
Put all his eggs in the Trocar basket. He to upgrade the product, lower the price to compete with Applied and show a profit.....didn't work Not sorry to see him go. He talked a big game of being "Mr team player" and concern for the masses but was just a blow hard at the end of the day. JK and the other henchmen in GSP leadership need to go as well.
Blaze was a great guy. He had a tough job to bring the trocars around. The product was way overpriced and they were losing lots of trocar business the Applied. Since he has taken over I don't think covidien have lost another committed account to applied which keeps their bags and clips out of those accounts. Problem is if the account is already using applied it's hard to win back that business because Covidien can't show a savings. So now everyone is going after Ethicons share of business.
I'm surprised you guys are even talking about this subject. Apparently you must not read your email, look at the Pulse, go through the public filings, call into the meetings to discuss this, or attend any of the town halls. I guess your customers are keeping you more busy than mine. 1. The new org structure was announced last week which promoted both Blaze and Chris, basically with these guys splitting Covidien into two parts. 2. While my individual territory may not have performed as well as I'd like, we all see the numbers and the overall GSP business has stabilized. Our core products are being improved, there are several new products launched or in the process of being launched this year. Were you here in 2008? At least now there's a clear direction. 3. I heard Chris make it clear he will preserve the identity formed in GSP while trying to find ways to unlock the larger portfolio with key customers or procedures. I don't know why he wouldn't. Maybe the AST guys might even learn a thing or two about a team culture.
Sounds like a bunch of corporate BS in advance of a merger that will see significant changes (and dismissals) in both leadership and rank & file. Buckle your seat belts folks.
Thank you for clarifying. And you really believe that?? You forgot to mention that if Chris' mouth is moving he's lying. With BH parachuting to safety, CB and SB will be short timers.
It is an acquisition not a merger. So, stop lying to yourself. It is just a matter of time before all COV leaderships will be wiped out. The question is, are you prepared? As for trocar, COV is 3rd in the market now and continue to decline. Not sure to why we are investing in it. We don't know how to manage mature business period. He was advised but didn't want to listen.
Technically, since he will leave our business to run a much larger businesss,he is both "gone" from GSP and also "promoted".
To the best of my knowledge Covidien is #2 in trocar business after winning the largest hospitals in New York.
No need to verify. It's on the internet isn't it It doesn't matter, the current structure of this and other Covidien business units will change significantly in the months following the takeover.
