Anyone got RA this Thursday?
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IBM when they purchased Redhat, bet the company on changing strategy. There were two goals of changing strategy
- Give up the old strategy of HW/SW/Services, as each piece lived independently and competed with the other pieces. So if one piece won, the other pieces suffered and as a result growth was cut to zero or negative. The strategy had run out of gas and had to be abandoned if IBM was to survive.
- The new purchased strategy was based on cloud, but was defined by IBM around their proprietary products. IBM had to do this as they had already abandoned Intel. THUS HYBRID Cloud was born. The other more subtle part of the hybrid strategy was each piece of IBM catalyzed the other pieces of IBM. No more interdivisional competing, but rather pursuing a strategy where each divisional win helps grow the other divisions. Consulting grow Infrastructure and SW. SW grows consulting and infrastructure. Infrastructure grows SW and Consulting. THIS was the subtle but fundamental change of buying a new strategy. IBM plays together to win, and grow vs IBM competing with itself.
So how does this new strategy tie in with RA’s. Given IBM’s “feed the machine” strategy, IBM has to trim the parts of IBM that don’t feed all three divisions. Did Watson Health feed all three divisions? NOPE and now it’s gone. IBM used a selloff and an RA strategy to discard it. IBM will continue to look at its offerings and pursue the “feed the machine” strategy
RA’s and selloffs will be used to discard non-strategic pieces
PIP’s will be used to make strategic pieces more efficient
IBM doesn't need to RA anymore... people are leaving in droves on their own to better jobs. Most development teams at IBM are suffering major losses in personnel which means product deliverables are getting delayed and impacted. The various services teams are suffering also. If you currently work at IBM, it is a great time to put pressure on your management and ask for more money.
Workday/Consulting - Lake Mary, FL - all is fine here too
ACS Network Support Engineering, it's calm here, no layoffs
Why RA when you can PIP? Anyone can be given unobtainable goals in a PIP.