I think Kendyl will do good as they have IBM legacy system and services?
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What does Kindle have to do with IBM?
... how to spell the companies ...
... and maybe you should learn the difference between possessive and plural
LOL
Maybe you should get a life and stop looking for spelling errors. No I am not the author. Just an annoyed reader who gets real tired of people like you.
Maybe you should learn how to spell the companies name before you asked your question (where you spelled it wrong twice).
You're about as useful as a one-legged man at an a rse kicking contest.
Nobody at IBM gives a ra ts a rse to Kendryl, Kendra or KindDrill - get a life
As an IBM mainframe product person I am very much interested in Kyndryl doing well and them doing a good job as they are in the middle of getting the product installed and serviced at many many shops.
I cannot say how Kyndryl will do relative to its ancestor. However, I think it's safe to say that Kyndryl will be much better off if and when it distances itself from its IBM roots.
No matter what one may think of the two companies, the fact is that Kyndryl needs to find its own path and stand on its own feet if it is to succeed. This will not occur as long as "the old ways" remain, and those old ways will remain as long as the company is primarily run by ex-IBM staff.
I was in IBM division 07 from the beginning of Lou Gerstner (start of ISSC) to the end of Sam Palmisano. There were originally very strong points to the division, one of which was that the technical, managerial and administrative staff would go to the end of the world to solve customer problems. This is (or rather, was) the sort of service that is prized by customers, and was highly valued by management.
However, as time went on things got old. "By the book" ways of thinking became entrenched, and service suffered on all levels. Clients noticed, and good employees voted with their feet...they knew all too well what was going on, and wanted no part of it.
Kyndryl has a chance to make a fresh start, if it chooses to do so. They may have IBM as a legacy, but they'll be better off when they ditch that legacy and adopt fresh ideas and ways of doing things.
Ginni made some bad moves but some great ones too. Investing in Design was brilliant – – it is what made companies like Apple very rich. There was also a lot of brilliance behind the idea of Watson health even if the execution faltered.
Even if Ginni was 10 times the CEO she really was, systemic issues inside of IBM's executive leadership would still have made this and just about any other great idea ultimately fail. Watson health was Jettisoned aside based off of a bad start – – right before chatGPT hit the scene. Abandoning it turned out to be pure stupidity – – and Ginni didn't make that decision all by herself. It's as though none of our execs understand the meaning of investment. The idea we are now primarily an AI company - right before that decision to jettison one of the most promising areas in AI - shows how utterly clueless and visionless our executive leadership is. It's not just Ginni.
As to Design, all of the decision-making around features and products were being made by the same clueless people – – those without any UX background, the non-design execs. Design doesn't make products automatically better just because someone is in the room with those skills. It gets better because those people actually have a place at the table. IBM never gave any designers a meaningful place at the table.
Arvind isn't fixing sh-t. He is just doubling down on raiding the cookie jar. And jumping on open.AI's bandwagon. The UX of these tools he is trying to sell is abysmal. Hey Arvind, you should probably hire back some of those designers you just laid off to fix this garbage - assuming you let them actually do their jobs. It is unusable. And hire some real leaders, not sales or marketing jerks, who can put us back in the healthcare area. There is so much money to be made there.
I cannot tell you how much I despise Arvind. I don't care if the stock is up if the company and all that had a value is being raized to the ground. More short term fixes from a short term thinker. The best we can hope for now is a Pyrrhic victory that will come and fade and a quarter or two. That's what happens when you don't have truly good executive leadership.
Why are the disgruntled ex GTS folks spamming IBM boards with their nonsense? Nobody at IBM gives a ra ts a rse to Kendryl, Kendra or KindDrill - get a life
Kyndryl was IBM’s response to labor being commoditized. GTS was charging enterprise rates on their offerings when the marketplace was moving to commodity parts and as such commodity rates. With Kyndryl’s spinoff, IBM bisected their GTS offerings from their GBS offerings thus allowing the enterprise side of IBM’s house to move forward, while allowing the commodity side of IBM’s house to restructure to an offshore/commodity parts and services offering. IBM’s fundamental mistake was divesting Intel servers thinking Power scale out would fill the divested void. Instead the marketplace adopted Intel servers and their offerings as “good enough” and left Power as an overpriced also ran. NOTE Power has superb offerings if you are looking for performance and/or large usable memory, BUT 80% of IBM’s previous customers were able to transition to Intel offerings and pocket the HW/SW/services savings. That my friends is how Ginni took a 100 billion dollar all in company and managed it down to 55 billion. The market innovated and moved far faster than IBM thought it would, and IBM was caught flat footed with zero alternatives. AK has stemmed a lot of the bleeding by focusing on Enterprise offerings, but he still has not fully addressed the remaining non-enterprise offerings that linger on the vine within IBM. Until he does, IBM will continue to just muddle along.
No. I think we're just mopping up deeply entrenched mess IBM created over many years. We provide a frsher approach to slow the rate that these accounts are being eroded and dismembered by smaller and more nimble competitors.
Kyndryl was spun off from IBM because IBM's financial engineers couldn't make the numbers work. They are not directly comparable because they work in different market segments. IBM's primary business is enterprise-scale hardware, software and consulting, and Kyndryl's primary business is managed enterprise infrastructure.
The idea of a business "overtaking" another is, IMHO, too ambitious in most situations. Personally, I think a better question to ask is: Can a business survive (and maybe even thrive) at what it's currently doing?
The jury is still out on that one, for both companies.
As others have stated, India Bowel Movements is nothing but a sh**show run by the Tamil loser in Armonk, AK.
Kyndryl will certainly overtake IBM in business and pound them into the dirt, given enough time. Couldn't happen to nicer executives.