Looking at Digital Transformation, led by Sandy Hogan, an organization of 400 employees and still trying to hire more, bringing absolutely a rounding error of value to the compnay.
Same like S+CC, and others, all were also bringing insignificant value to the company except keeping some people in positions, promising share holders of billions of value at stake and good amount of slideware activity, all of which was coming with a very high price to cisco.
And when we let go, we let go the people who makes the difference and we keep such parasitical organizations to survive and grow fat.
A good reason of how organizations fail. And the examples are numerous.