KAT's town hall, still a disaster

Completely staged town hall with zero real content. Why no discussion of the survey results. KAT continues to use terminology she doesn't seem to understand. "Wonder no more what our north star is." Apparently the north star is just a bunch of buzz phrases. Hey, at least the company is on Windows 10, what a win!

 

A simple question would be, why Kat doesn’t just pitch the idea to the CET of selling GSK to Walmart. Maybe then the “transformation” could be more to her liking.

After 3 years, Kat can’t find a story to tell about a GSK experience? Wow! Talk about a slap in the face to the “tenured” GSK folks.

 

Kat’s In her cradle, with a silver spoon

 

That's not fair or true. The part where she said we're all in the birthing canal (did she really say we're all stuck in a vagina?) And the 1% Walmart Christmas miracle rambling was obviously unrehearsed, "inspired" rambling.

 

Sounds like more outsourcing and layoffs in the future.

Anything to look like a 'change agent'.

 

My favorite moment was when Agam called Code Orange his biggest disappointment of 2019 when only moments earlier Kat called it out as a highlight success. Which is it? Get your story straight, Kat. We all know what a flaming turd that project is. Maybe that, too, is stuck in the birth canal and we still need to wait for it.

 

Stuck in the poop canal, in dire need of an enema.

 

Way to go Kat - keep up the amazing leadership and direction. Amazing buzzwork organizational model.

 

I don't think she will be around much longer. I bet the people left that are from Walmart won't be around much longer, either. They literally have done nothing but waste money, and lots of it. How can the CET be that blind? J, Jack are just the tip of the iceberg. You don't need survey results to see how damaging these people have been. The are making the survey completely worthless, too.

 

didn't even bother watching it. Not a surprise to hear it was a waste of time with no clear substance. Let's see the detailed survey results for a good laugh at the state of her leadership.

 

layoffs are looming and KAT is at CES with her cronies and talking about TV's like she is still at Walmart. At some point you need to question the CET that keeps her around

 

Her LT has spent the last few days parsing the survey results. Let's spare her the trouble. It says we have terrible leaders in key positions who don't know anything about DDA and waste a bunch of money while treating people like shit and not managing them well. Their response is to have everyone add development items in workday?

 

Over in the Pharma IT boards:
KT was a bust at Baxter, they kicked her out - she went to Walmart and got fired; she 'consulted on her own' for a few months until she conned GSK into hiring her; no US based CIO roles were available to her, so she crossed the pond, and will soon sink in it

Other such choice words.

 

Karenann threatens the entire Future Ready program at GSK. Does anyone actually think she will be able to successfully lead the technology divestment of the Consumer Health business in 2 years? The same person who thinks Windows 10 rollouts are an achievement worth bragging about repeatedly to an entire company? GSK is really threatening shareholder value of both companies by continuing to let her lead tech. Where is the One Platform that was highly touted when she joined? Nowhere. Where is the data ecosystem named Code Orange that has been worked on for just as long? Nowhere. Somehow based on that, we are to believe Future Ready will be successful?

 

They cancelled the town hall or let's talk scheduled for this week. Maybe the higher ups read these posts?

 

The GSK side is not the problem. It's the spinoff that's really problematic. It needs to be independent, but tech is led by someone (Amy) who is not technical, and has no experience building, maintaining, scaling any actual systems or tech teams. Name one thing she or her team have even architected while at GSK. I bet GSK wishes they had J back.

 

"I'll take 'Things That Have Never Happened' for $1000, Alex"

 

GSK bets on tech to help boost lagging R&D as it looks to start 23andMe trial

Well, this is embarrassing, Emma talking about tech and machine learning and AI, while our CIO is bragging about Windows 10 rollouts internally, and our CTO is saying his biggest disappointment last year was our internal data infrastructure, because we can't even ingest data at scale after working on it for years with a huge ass team of "experts".

 

"I bet GSK wishes they can go back in time and give Kt back to the Walmart"

Fixed that for you.

The 'leaders' from Walmart have been a catastrophe. All the incompetence is hidden from shareholders, otherwise there would be a revolt.

 

Kat and Amy both are done soon enough...