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IBM MANAGEMENT - IT IS TIME TO PAY THE PIPER.

Google announced Duplex and it responds like you and me.

Rewind to 2012: we saw Jeopardy; Google was all about search and maps. Fast-forward to 2018, surprise, yet another company is about to eat from IBM's buffet of strategic initiatives.

Google population 60000. IBM population 380000.

IBM spent five long years to turf its hardware, out "redundant" resources, hide under the radar of governmental-contracts by hiring young talent to sustain headcount for less, all in the name of five strategic initiatives from Ginni.

Google's presentation about Duplex is a crisp comprehensible delivery that resonates in the kitchens of our great country. Let this serve as a model for IBM to emulate and explain to its shareholders what it has done for five long years?

What the public sees today is the carcass strewn path where Ginni and Co have been, and it reeks of the stench of putrid dreams and shattered lives. The stakeholders are beholden with percentage magic and hocus-pocus-focus on the enterprise-customer. Ford's Model-T was a complex assembly of thousands of parts yet the public got it the moment they set their eyes on it - nothing should be so shrouded in mystery that it cannot be explained on the back of an envelope.

IBM management - it is time to pay the piper. There's close to a billion pieces of you wanting to know what you accomplished with our money.

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Ginni runs a motion of confidence to avoid a mutiny within the company. This is shrewd advice from her artful dodgers to buy the cover of time to retirement. They are bulldozing a building knowing that there are people inside.

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Post ID: @8nml+T58Lmop

The David Kenny May/11 interview has nothing to show for five years! No Duplex. Nothing!

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Post ID: @7msa+T58Lmop

The external competition for strategic initiatives is visible and impressive.

How did Ginni and C-suite survive shareholder vote on Apr/24?

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Post ID: @6byj+T58Lmop

OMG I just watched the duplex demo and at least in the examples of booking a haircut and booking a restaurant reservation it passed the Turing test on the phone, including sounds like "umm" that people normally make. The restaurant reservation was for Chinese and the person at the other end had a challenging communication style to say the least. I think Watson has some serious catching up to do.

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Promises 2.0 needs five more years.

Unbelievable trust in a C-suite that switched to software but not one can take credit for creating a best-selling FAANG. These bricks-and-mortar suits are out of their depth. Couldn't survive shark tank. Best they can do is outsource promises 2.0 (AI to MIT, Blockchain to UNC), buy another five, and coast on dwindling legacy.

Too many yes-men with no creative talent running IBM. Way too much risk for 380000 employees and shareholders.

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Ginni has endorsed three management types:

  • the narcissist (steals credit)

  • the psychopath (emotionally unstable)

  • the machiavellian (subverts careers).

There is no slot for merit. IBM's rating system is a kangaroo court - the fallout is a lack of creative talent at the company. Left over are the wizened-crafty, and the wide-eyed youth.

It would go a long way if IBM were to demo something Duplex.

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Post ID: @2pki+T58Lmop

Watching that video it is a dismay to realize that IBM leadership looks older and sounds outdated compared to their successful counterparts elsewhere. Unlike the fate of their unfortunate subordinates age discrimination has not caught up to IBM management at any level.

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Post ID: @2yvi+T58Lmop

Ginni may be suffering from "confirmation bias" which is a condition that can afflict anyone who holds power and is constantly surrounded by flattery. Better if she undergoes a psychiatric assessment for mental competence - too much at stake - a letter of confidence from a specialist will go a long way.

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Post ID: @1ali+T58Lmop

IBM has a tie-up with MIT for AI but it is so political inside IBM they could miss the boat. Google doesn't need to outsource AI R&D? Did they get the Watson engineers?

IBM has similar serious competition in Blockchain and Quantum. Management bloat is cannibalizing IBM.

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Post ID: @1num+T58Lmop

Shareholders deserve a "Duplex" demo, and to vote on stock options to replace cash bonuses.

Amen to both. Stock options all the way down the chain.

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https://www.bloomberg.com/news/videos/2018-03-19/ibm-s-5-tech-predictions-for-the-next-5-years-video

IBM's presents 5 Tech Predictions i.e. Strategic Initiatives 2.0.

This presentation has more abstractions than holes in Swiss cheese. A ploy to buy time to a fat pension?

Shareholders deserve a "Duplex" demo, and to vote on stock options to replace cash bonuses.

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