Perfect IT Strategy 10 years ago....to fail miserably today. - Anonymous employee Grant Thornton Employee Review

2.0
7 Nov 2015
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Pros

12 years best places to work in IT. Good people with long tenures, but it all took a bad turn.

Cons

Global brand is experiencing strong growth and progressive thought leadership, but US is determined to ruin it with new leadership guiding the firm toward eminent disaster. What do you get when most of the new enterprise leadership is from Andersen and most of the IT leadership is from CSC? It seems they picked up directly from the high point of these dinosaur companies (and epically failed) business philosophies. They have decided to outsource all of IT to a provider leveraging off-shore resources to the hilt while the business users are demanding more personal and custom solutions with self service capabilities. The next generation of talented accountants, consultants and auditors that are now maturing into managers will clash with the model and continue to advance shadow IT efforts or leave for more progressive cultures where they can advance their trade with state of the art tools, not a platform built to succeed in the 2000's.

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