Risky changes.... Not sure where this ship is headed - Anonymous employee Nielsen Employee Review

- wind of change not likely blowing in the right direction - seems our management mistakingly thinks we are selling sausages or planes rather than demonstrate understanding that people are our asset. yes we sell data, but without the people to make this complex data correct, and then people to explain this data to our clients, we have nothing. - meritocracy system can be fantastic if you are in the right box in the GE talent matrix. However, the process for being assigned into a box is often based on perceptions rather than results. Over the years, I have seen more of a 'PR' culture emerge, where bullshitters with little results behind them can actually self promote themselves closer to 'god' - we have started outsourcing our hearts and souls. Example: The advanced statistician teams that should be the warrants of the designs and validity of our very complex data projection tools have been outsourced... Would you trust a surgeon who operates from a standard manual? - the company doesn't have sustainability (of the business) at heart. All the risky changes make a lot of us think we are on a perhaps sinking ship. We often are in positions of monopoly but that doesn't grant us the right to sell crap data? Or does it?! -The GE management inspired decisions do not necessarily fit our business. Once again, we are selling people (who are selling data), not planes. The GE management team adheres to systems and beliefs that GE itself has abandoned: for example the fast rotation of top leaders who market themselves very well into varying random positions of increasing incompetence... Rather than the promotion and retention of truly talented individuals with deep expertise in their field. GE is moving away from rotating people from aviation to health to xxxx... Because it takes time to learn each of these businesses. But imagine what a group of plane/sausage makers can do in a market research company! Their very understanding of what a client is and want is not the right one!