Strategic cringe?
Mouchel and Serco are two companies we admire. And in a match-up each has strengths to call on. We’d be hard pressed to choose between them. But, curiously, it seems that one company naturally defers to the other. Here’s a quick exerpt from Mouchel’s interim statement:
“The HBS brand has been discontinued and the business already merged with our existing Government Services business stream, all under the leadership of a new managing director, who has been recruited from Serco.”
Why the name check for Serco? Why the implication that a Serco staffer must necessarily move Mouchel on as a business?
Mouchel has a top tier local government BPO and consulting business; Serco’s business, built around its acquisition of ITNet, is nothing to get excited about. Yet Richard Cuthbert appears to be sub-consciously defering to Chris Hyman. Odd.
