All your eggs in one basket - Strategy?
Recall when I worked at the Halifax the executives like Mark Fisher moved many systems from the more robust Halifax systems like IBM System z onto less capable Lloyds platforms like HP because that was the strategy to unify the platforms and it was cheap. Now all the eggs are in one basket including the separate TSB and that basket is looking increasingly fragile.
Add to this the culture to "outsource everything" including ownership and responsibility (was it really HP's fault?) and you have the perfect storm with no one competent in charge. Even the recently appointed head of IT David Oldfield has no qualifications or experience in IT (reminds you of the credit crunch where none of the Banks executives had any banking qualifications).
Biting the hand that feeds IT
