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I remember when my employer (together with a whole bunch of other agencies) got bought by a global consulting company. Towards us employees as well as to the m
by sdoering 5y ago
I remember when my employer (together with a whole bunch of other agencies) got bought by a global consulting company.
Towards us employees as well as to the market the talk was always to generate better opportunities that one agency alone would not be able to target (read win pitches from the big corporations).
Shortly thereafter we were the biggest digital agency in ASGR (Austria, Switzerland, Germany & Russia) and every MD was clapping themselves on the shoulder for achieving this. Nobody seemed to mind that the status came because of a big shopping spree by Accenture and not from natural growth. And what does it actually mean to be the biggest?
But I have yet to see said opportunities being won after nearly 5 years.
Sure there were some big wins. But in the end the existing agency brands won these pitches, not because they were part of Accenture (Interactive) but brought their own DNA and approach to the table. On the contrary - having to price in the Accenture overhead either led to loosing because of being too expensive or the necessity to offshore most work to India (or nearshore towards Eastern Europe).
- pydry 5y agoThe worst run company I ever worked for was an financial services company that had ballooned as a result of multiple mergers. Each time they rolled out the efficiencies, synergies and economies of scale spiel and each time it got worse as they patched a new IT system onto an old one.
- sdoering 5y agoI don't know what you are talking about. There is nothing bloated about multiple systems necessary to track my time or my expenses while project managers also insist that you use jira to track time because they otherwise have no way of reporting time spent on a per project level to the client or deliver any reporting more frequent than every fortnight (capabilities we had before the merger). Or the necessity to forbid ssh connections in the corporate networks as well as ssh ports being open on cloud instances. If you need a shell use the one the cloud provider provides you in the browser. While also installing software on your work machine that MITMles you opening up ssl connections (just for security reasons) at least in countries that don't have strong employer protection institutions in place (like mine). /s Pardon my sarcasm. I hear you.
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