Thoughts?
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IBM is very good at mistakes or greed. A salesman ages ago was selling AS/400 with MAPICS and after installed, MAPICS/DB came out. This was only a weeks after the sale. Not surprising, IBM called the sale as is and the upgrade was not part of the package. Well that was an unhappy customer. Remember GO THE EXTRA MILE TO DO THE RIGHT THING. The customer had an IBM BEAT DOWN room. Whenever a salesman came in ( blue suit, white shirt, red tie) they received a beat-down and were ordered out.
IBM is returning to its roots. No, not mainframe - further back.
It is getting back into meat slicing. Shaving some here, some there, then the whole thing will be sliced in half.
The meat resources scrapped will be left to rot - somebody else's problem to clean up.
Baically nothing, sh.t place , no culture , no skills...just loser company
Financial engineering + smoke and mirror marketing.
Hybrid punch card tabulator
The new and improved punch card tabulator
Micromanagement
Bureaucracy
Slow to market
Lacking long term vision
IBM PCs, eServers and Thinkpads.
…. Oh wait
The severance package. 😂
That's easy. Surviving. I know, I know, everyone thinks IBM is going down blah blah, yadda, yadda. But they always survive. You think the situation now is worse than it was in 1993? Not even close. Lou not only made IBM survive he made it a top 5 company globally (look it up during those years). Just imagine that "I will survive" song. That's what they're good at. LOL.
Getting patents on every little silly thing and then go after any other company they can possibly sue.
Using design thinking to design software that is useless and unusable.
arbitrage between charged consulting rates and outsource pay rates.
The same thing Gerstner figured out after coming on board in '93: deep, trusted client relationships with large companies. That is the only thing which has kept IBM relevant for the last few decades, frankly.
financial engineering, RA's, destroying culture and teams
Turning gold into sh-t.
Stock buybacks. But the field is crowded with the likes of GE, Intel, Boeing..
mainframe, anything mainframe