This not a news thread, this is a speculation thread... Let's start a prediction thread about when Ginni Rometty will be retiring.
Please keep it civil and focus on:
Date
Rationale
Retirement Plans
Let's see what we can come up with. Again, please be civil, I do not want my IP blocked and I do not want this thread to be nuked.
Finally
bye G
Arvind Krishna, IBM CEO Retires
This not a news thread, this is a speculation thread... Let's start a prediction thread about when Arvind Krishna will be retiring.
Wow... But, yeah, this totally makes sense
Briefly worked with Arvind back in 2014 and 2015... He's very kind and polite. I think this will turn the company around, I just wish he was younger...
She is stepping down, Arvind Krishna (SVP Cloud and Cognitive) is taking over...
In a release, Rometty described Krishna as a “brilliant technologist who has played a significant role in developing our key technologies such as artificial intelligence, cloud, quantum computing and blockchain” as well as a “superb operational leader.”
3/3/21, at the age of 63. Her obsession with 3's demands it
This god posted two years ago.
She's got 60 million since.
Well, since she is a female over the age of 55 they will probably get rid of her like they did to another large group of female employees with in the past several months.
Watson knows when you're planning to quit your job. You should be aware of Watson going offline.
She has good 5 yr to go
Omg
Not soon enough
She will retire when L Ellison steps down as "CTO" of Oracle
Two years after, and she is still here. I got axed six months ago
This post makes me sad because we see there has been no change in the past 2 years.
Si un ejecutivo de cuenta no cumplía su cuota, lo reasignaban a una de menor categoría, ella lleva 5 años no cumpliendo y sigue ahí, la diferencia radica en que ella pone las reglas, espero que en el 2019 por fin caiga de su puesto
Date: never
Rationale: too greedy
Date = yesterday.
Rationale = so many consecutive quarters of financial decline, and 'insanity is doing to same thing
over and over again'. I hope there are still smart folks at IBM that can see the problem.
As a side, she is already 61 to be 62 soon, retirement age has been 60. Get another life !
Plans = retread onto a social media corporation board.
Its so sad for me to see a great corporation who could build everything, yet now builds nothing that can be touched, and nothing for the regular consumer. How do you made money on that ?
One of my positions, 1981-3, was in financials at the 590 Madison Sales facility. (one of the Branch Managers was a West Point drop-out who was offered the position as his father was a top accounting executive). My office was Not meeting financial requirements when I arrived.
When I departed, with a lowered rating, we had just made forecasted requirements for the first time. Being that the thresholds were being lowered, we looked great to the middle management, who were financially illiterate.
And the trend of evaporating revenue continued since. I never saw middle or high level management Ever affected by bad business performance. Their only contributions have been archaic decisions that have brought IBM to it’s knees and worse. I feel bad for those who I hold in high regards who may still be there.
Date: on her own accord, never
Rationale: Greedy executives need to milk the sinking ship dry. Who cares what the proletariat thinks.
I worked for IBM during the glory years for 30 years, 1964 to 1994. Two years in Endicott, 18 years in Philadelphia, and ten years In Tucson and never saw a layoff. To bad it’s come to this.
5 Years ago on a internal Video she claimed her decision to go Cognitive, Security, Social, Analytics...etc. Was betting the Farm! She compared her decision to then CEO Watson's decision to go with the System 360 Computer Program. (A great success) I think Mrs Rometty has lost the Farm. She is growing nothing. They manipulate the numbers in one area such as Services and show it to be Revenue in Cloud. (Fake Growth) No real increase in revenue.... Just trying to make her numbers so it looks like she is accomplishing something. SHE MUST LEAVE!!!!!
Date: Never
Rationale: Has a sweet gig...
Date:Think she will leave in the end of the year.
Rationale: IBM has never had a CEO older than 60 years. Her time has come, her bonus is save.
They should give her a big raise......then fire her so she knows she lost a better paying job.
Omg - time to sell my APPL stock!
She will retire when it implodes so her successor can be credited with "rescuing" the company. No one in their right mind would take the job until all the lies about cloud and cognitive are revealed.
there is panic in armonk. the divs like finance and gts that they wanted to pawn off, needed to conflate this qtrs rev numbers, have no buyers. ginni is obsessed with salvaging her legacy - to no avail. bye.
Absolutely agree with @NFLJwVK-kqj. She should retire 5 years ago! She is leading the company into death. The road of IBM is getting narrower. Revenue declining is inevitable， not by chance.
Date = Hopefully, today
Rationale = Medical - Discovered she has CRI ( Cranial Rectal Inversion )
Retirement Plans = Suicide by toenail clippers
She should have retired five years ago. Think about where IBM would be if they had replaced Palmisano with someone lIke Nadella. She's going soon. The two co-founders of Aspera just left IBM, as well as a few other key execs. Essentially the whole recruiting arm of HR was just let go. The end times are near, my friends. Ding-dong. Problem is that it's too late for a new exec to save IBM. Too much damage has been done.
I don't see any point in this. Just throwing guesses around.
Personally, I still this this is not only possible, but likely. https://www.forbes.com/sites/petercohan/2015/05/04/three-reasons-apple-should-acquire-ibm/