There are three main categories for the underperforming group's failure:
1. Structural organization issues: for example, the clients of the underperforming datacenter group play political games that undermine the datacenter group and prevent it from performing well
2. Poor management within the datacenter group itself: for example, employees forced to attend lengthy, unproductive meetings
3. Performance issues with the actual rank-and-file employees
So when you decide to 'axe' the underperforming org, what does that entail?
You could redistribute everyone, but if the error is category #2 or #3, then you saddle the higher performance groups with the causes of the problem. But if you fire everyone and the problem category #1, now you have to hire a bunch of new people and they are still doomed to failure.
How do you solve the problem where the organization needs to be self-aware enough to figure out if it has a category 1, 2 or 3 dysfunction?
So when you decide to 'axe' the underperforming org, what does that entail?
You could redistribute everyone, but if the error is category #2 or #3, then you saddle the higher performance groups with the causes of the problem. But if you fire everyone and the problem category #1, now you have to hire a bunch of new people and they are still doomed to failure.
How do you solve the problem where the organization needs to be self-aware enough to figure out if it has a category 1, 2 or 3 dysfunction?