Feelin Groovy

Hurd Plans to Herd EDS into HP

With the right leadership in place, there is tremendous potential to lean down EDS and make it more profitable through speed to market and increased innovation.

Michael Jordan performed financial miracles cleaning up the Dick Brown era mess. Unfortunately he didn't bring in solid IT operational experience and the result is that EDS is still stuck in the old GM-EDS go slow mode with tremendous no value add overhead.

Several of us that haven't been at EDS long enough to have Blue Blood running through our veins have fantasized about being made CEO: we would come in and whack 20% headcount overnight. This headcount reduction would come straight out of the non-technical expert groups. Many of us who came to EDS from other IT organizations find it to be a slowly plodding dinosaur with an overabundance of people that seem to have made up their job and who are looking to latch onto projects/programs that have a lot of potential and suck the life giving blood out of them.

Program mgrs, project mgrs, anything with coordinator in the title, and in fact anyone with a strange title that doesn't have technical expertise should be shown the door.

My current role has between 6-10 people all supposedly performing functions that I have done in the past on top of my technical role. Confusion about who does what reigns at present day EDS.

Mark Hurd, forget talking to anyone with VP, Director or even Manager in their title. Come in and talk directly to the technical experts, especially those that haven't spent 10 years or more at this dinosaur.

Change the EDS theme song from "Feelin Groovy":
Slow down, you move too fast.
You got to make the morning last.
Just kicking down the cobble stones.
Looking for fun and feelin' groovy.
Hello lamppost,
What cha knowing?
I've come to watch your flowers growing.
Ain't cha got no rhymes for me?
Doot-in' doo-doo,
Feelin' groovy.

Got no deeds to do,
No promises to keep.
I'm dappled and drowsy and ready to sleep.
Let the morning time drop all its petals on me.
Life, I love you,
All is groovy.

to "Born to be Wild"
Get your motor runnin'
Head out on the highway
Lookin' for adventure
And whatever comes our way
Yeah Darlin' go make it happen
Take the world in a love embrace
Fire all of your guns at once
And explode into space

I like smoke and lightning
Heavy metal thunder
Racin' with the wind
And the feelin' that I'm under
Yeah Darlin' go make it happen
Take the world in a love embrace
Fire all of your guns at once
And explode into space

Like a true nature's child
We were born, born to be wild
We can climb so high
I never wanna die

Born to be wild
Born to be wild