Shallow Company and Little IT Management Leadership & Expertise
Pros
Working within the operational business ig=s great as an IT resource, with this said, working from within IS is terrible.
Cons
Just because you surround yourself with familiar faces, you have to be able to ensure that those individuals the individuals in question have the experience and positive history to do the job. At Husky many don't they get promoted through sucking up and brown nosing to management? Senior IT leadership knows what’s going on and embraces it. The IT empire building and silo effect is a deterrent from moving forward in a positive way. The CIO has delegated some of this management to his director staff - again very ineffective staff. There is also an air of superiority between the attitudes of IT employees over their independent and always superior-in-skill contractors. As a long term IT employee, I and a number of my friends have been looked over for promotion only to see an under qualified outsider take the position - not right and brings down morale. If you happen to be an IT resource contracted by the business then Husky is a great place to work. If you have to work through IT then there are many negatives and very few positives. The PMO is another sore spot at Husky – several academics are managing it and although somehow they achieved their PMP cert., they have very little of real world delivery expertise and experience. Husky does not have the business and IT big project maturity when dealing with large implementation vendors and when you have many of Husky management being enticed by the dinners and perks being offered by these vendors, this breeds a culture of greed and impropriety. There needs to be an IT shake up – commencing at the top and a complete re-structure of the IT organization, For husky to regain any credibility.
