The operations side of IHS is an absolute joke, especially the sales operations organization. This company way underpays its employees for the work they do. Mid-level managers particularly at the Director, Senior Director and VP level only care about gaming the system so that they can get their coveted bonuses. They don't actually "solve" any real issues for the business or bring value. Rather, they make it look like they accomplished something through fancy reports. When they miss their goal or objective, they simply create what they call "phase 2" of a project and then attempt to fix what it was they didn't correctly do the first time around. This process continues for years on end. For a company who should be cutting edge, have a lot of "insight" into strategic planning and process, they simply are a bumbling mess under the hood, very inefficient and over charge for their products and services because they just can't pull their act together.
Finally, those mid level managers will make the analysts and junior managers do all the heavy lifting/actual work on a project and then they take ALL the credit for what was accomplished. These people are scary to work for. Oh, and it's pretty strange that the CEO Scott Key just abruptly left one day with no real explanation. This company constantly has management issues and every other month there is some major senior management shakeup. There is never any stability and the company does 3 major layoff cycles a year. I was with the company 4 years and just decided to get out on my own before being brought down by internal politics.
