Someone has put forward interesting productivity numbers here that show that productivity at IBM is falling drastically. I think we all know what the reason is, but I wonder what you would say is the biggest reason for the drop in productivity here?
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What did Broken Promise Thomas announce?
"RT announced the Golden Shower award is coming back this morning, productivity will rise. "
Yeah, you got to love the 'Golden Shower'... After the 'Brown Lipstick', you definitely need a rinse. LOL!!!
What is the motivation to work at ibm?
If you do great work, you get way more work and some useless bluepoints and some useless award (not $$).
Next thing you know you're doing the work for entire team without a raise.
Instead just chill and do some side business, stock trade or interview and 2x-3x your pay and leave for much better tech company ibm will lay you off anyway.
RT announced the Golden Shower award is coming back this morning, productivity will rise.
Get ready The re-org is underway IBM is informing the partners today
What else to expect when for a capability addition, there are more layers of management sending congratulatory messages than actual engineers worked on it. One layer more incompetent than other, in the name of Delivery Manager, Project Manager, Program Manager, Offering manager, Senior manager...
Oh wait, but they do provide you with all resources and guidance? Sure, if only they knew what is being done and what needs to be done, they surely would.! Forget actual resources, none of these layers know what accesses are needed for resources.
Form a cartel, nominate each other for useless awards, and voila, you've got the best leadership team in place.
Working from home is the problem and AK is going to use it to get everyone back in the offices asap
"AK is executing the only strategy that makes sense “whats old is new again” You have a monopoly on mainframe and its 2 trillion in SW (mostly cobol) So why not modernize it via LINUX and move it to the cloud."
Yes, I agree with you, the only problem is this is what all the other competitors are doing, and we all know how great IBM is at competing in anything!!!
AK is executing the only strategy that makes sense “whats old is new again” You have a monopoly on mainframe and its 2 trillion in SW (mostly cobol) So why not modernize it via LINUX and move it to the cloud. It’s the old 1960’s service bureau all over again except you get to consult and re-write the code in addition to providing the hosting. The down side of his strategy is the rest of IBM (midrange HW and SW, Legacy IBM cloud, health, TSS, and scaleout storage) doesn’t fit in and he will have to spin/close/trade it. Get ready as the 2nd shoe of IBM’s great transformation is about to be executed and only a few “NICHE” offerings outside of Redhat/mainframe will be entertained
Per AK’s email, I don't know what he's saying, and I don't think he does either. AK is right back to Ginni's play book with the execution theme. What can you say, ancient dinosaurs that have refused to evolve are not very nimble by nature. It was easy to be a dinosaur when you were a monopoly, but not so much anymore. We had to compete in the market with PCs, semiconductors and System X, and we couldn't.....we had to sell them all. It's the same with Cloud, which is why they are creating a unique Hybrid Cloud since it's essentially a mainframe version of the Cloud......because it is all they know how to do. The more things change, the more they stay the same.....DELETE !
Saw AK's email this morning. First thought - who are all these people and why are there so many SVPs and GMs with nonsense titles?
Of course it’s dropped. There’s nothing to do. The innovation and things to be productive about are running low. I’m still the same worker, I just have less to do now.
I could not agree more. Executives keep appearing out of nowhere like maggots around corpse. Please stop recycling useless management to other BUs. Once a horrible manager, always a horrible manager.
Absolutely. Shrinking revenue with ever more ibm executives.
My productivity in services definitely went down… 85% in 2020, 65% in 2021. I expect it to go down further in 2022.
All my management’s fault I must say. They have no clue what they are doing. Great jobs guys, keep up the great work, we will all end up getting laid off!m, you included!
Ansible much?
This tool is constantly down and their own SME's are lost.
And stop asking other teams to troubleshoot when it fails.
The only productivity that IBM head honchos are looking at is the financial engineering (buybacks).
Productivity is down because there are too many managers, layers of management, and director/Vice President positions that do nothing but call meetings, post blog updates, and put together chart decks. The internal/vendor software tools group are trying “just in time” development and the new tools are not working well so that also drags down productivity.
Productivity in the way it's measured, assumes that we're still worker bees that make widgets. We're knowledge workers and this is an industry that will reward innovation born out of creativity. Guess what creativity also goes hand in hand with? No fear from speaking up/out, no fear of retaliation, and trust. When these things are missing, you get no creativity and innovation and you start measuring productivity as if we are making widgets so that you can justify your/management's existence.
This @5bzm+1evvkCEf is the one OP is likely talking about.
Farming the branch in a commodity marketplace plus lack of innovation to develop new products to fill the declining legacy