Vantaggi
Work from home culture was well established before Covid, and continues with exceptionally good support, great benefits, high potential for the applications and technology. New hires are primarily from established, mainstream IT industry players and are helping to drive change. Long term product strategy is strong. Messages and strategy communicated from senior executives reflects the changes needed in the culture. Acquisition by Koch Industries has added very skilled senior leadership, maturing administrative processes, and focus to the long term strategy.
Svantaggi
Despite a clear message from executive level that we are One Infor and encouraging all Infor employees to work together, at the operational level many groups seem to have dug in and become even more territorial and unsupportive of colleagues. I am regularly told "it's not my job" or "can't help". Several large groups of employees from legacy companies are resistant to change and to new employees, including some in management. This slows adoption of changes critical to moving from a Mom and Pop, in-crown culture to mature business culture. Resource management for consultants is very inconsistent and generally lacks strategic thought, either for project success or resource development. There is a new program to train consultants on the products, which is good, but it rolling out very, very slowly. There is still no expectation that consultants become proficient in multiple products, or even multiple modules of a single product, so completing a project requires multiple, different resources for tasks that in another consultancy would be done by one person, further complicating staffing plans and limiting career progression.