Unisys Corp, Blue Bell, Pennsylvania yesterday announced a restructuring that creates three business groups and eliminates the post of president and chief operating officer. The company says the reorganisation will not entail any charge to earnings This is not a downsizing, this is a purely philosophical decision on how do you want to run the business, it said. The three business groups are Information Services and Systems, Computer Systems, and Government Systems. Reto Braun, who was a Unisys director, president and chief operating officer, will leave the company to pursue other interests, and all three business groups will report directly to chief executive James Unruh. The company says it is making the change to become more client-driven. Unruh himself will head the Information Services and Systems business, which takes in all Unisys systems integration activities and will have three geographic sales divisions, while Albert Zettlemoyer will head the Government Systems group, which includes all the former Paramax Systems divisions, and Unisys Government Systems Inc. Computer Systems, under Hugh Lynch, will supply the other units with computer, imaging and payment systems and software products and tools. Today’s changes will better align our organisational structure to our strategy, increase our focus to grow our information services and client-server businesses, provide more synergy and focus in our government businesses, and enable faster decision making and responsiveness to market changes across Unisys, Unruh said.
