http://www.myglobalcareer.com/archives/2007/09/14/eds-unready-for-a-global-stage/ My Global Career: Where you belong in the flat world. Thu, 28 Aug 2008 09:51:13 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.7 http://www.myglobalcareer.com/wp-content/themes/myglobalcareer/_media/_global/logo.gif http://www.myglobalcareer.com http://www.myglobalcareer.com/archives/2007/09/14/eds-unready-for-a-global-stage/#comment-1251 Mon, 17 Sep 2007 06:58:03 +0000 http://www.myglobalcareer.com/archives/2007/09/14/eds-unready-for-a-global-stage/#comment-1251 Focusing on the bottom line is fine but it's not the answer to what's troubling EDS. You can't become a global power in services without having a more global DNA. We can spare everyone a debate about whether Plano is on the plains literally or figuratively ... Focusing on the bottom line is fine but it’s not the answer to what’s troubling EDS. You can’t become a global power in services without having a more global DNA. We can spare everyone a debate about whether Plano is on the plains literally or figuratively …

]]> http://www.myglobalcareer.com/archives/2007/09/14/eds-unready-for-a-global-stage/#comment-1232 Sun, 16 Sep 2007 01:42:21 +0000 http://www.myglobalcareer.com/archives/2007/09/14/eds-unready-for-a-global-stage/#comment-1232 Your comments are dated, and more appropriate to the EDS of ten, perhaps fifteen years ago. While NO major IT organization is as completely healthy and nimble as would be best, EDS has made enormous progress in focusing its attention and its energies on the bottom line. That focus wavers but is never absent. As for the 'monolith on the plains', there's no such thing -- though you could be forgiven for thinking that of the Headquarters building, aka The Godpod, which does resemble a dirigible docking station or a Starfleet installation -- but thats just one of several sprawling buildings on the EDS campus that would do credit to Microsoft or Google. And, by the way, they're in Plano, Texas, just north of Dallas. Not 'the plains' by a long shot. Your comments are dated, and more appropriate to the EDS of ten, perhaps fifteen years ago. While NO major IT organization is as completely healthy and nimble as would be best, EDS has made enormous progress in focusing its attention and its energies on the bottom line. That focus wavers but is never absent. As for the ‘monolith on the plains’, there’s no such thing — though you could be forgiven for thinking that of the Headquarters building, aka The Godpod, which does resemble a dirigible docking station or a Starfleet installation — but thats just one of several sprawling buildings on the EDS campus that would do credit to Microsoft or Google. And, by the way, they’re in Plano, Texas, just north of Dallas. Not ‘the plains’ by a long shot.

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