BK was the only problem with Intel - that he is gone everything will be OK now??

It seems funny that primitive notion of Satan is so ingrained in our veins. Statistically from the discussion board it seems, that BK was the only problem with Intel. Some messiah will come, have his/her brush strokes and the ball will magically start rolling.

Saw hundred of posts claiming that since ACT was initiated by BK, he deserved this from bad KARMA. This is a soap opera logic!!!. Sound’s like a good vs evil cliche. The pertinent point is that being CEO, definitely BK was the critical face for ACT, but it was a BOD, executive committee and MCM decision. Beyond doubt it was insanely inhumane. But if not all major chunk of senior level VP to up had the nod. To make the story short, ACT and yesterday’s episode, shows the business model and culture of Intel (or maybe corporations at large). These events carry a signature of intel behavior.

Whoever works/have worked at Intel in recent years knows, neither the company appreciates innovation, nor does it want one, or else it would have been selective/specific in hiring engineers for developing one of the most challenging and intricate technological marvels. You get hired into a position( which you yourself do not know why you were hired for or for which skill/experience). In most cases your spouse/domestic partner, if RCG gets hired too ( does not matter what major, as long it is science/eng, that’s enough). Never heard ever that a tech company is hiring based on diversity irrespective of merit, expertise and background. It will look pretty odd or else Intel can/could definitely hire a philosophy Ph.D as a process Engineer. It will not make any difference to Intel.

Nobody’s intellectual skills/expertise is needed, just a worker to dance to the tunes of management ( who in 95% of cases have no idea ) and you can be assured that within a quarter if not earlier, the rules will change. In the name of business need hardly there are any cross talks between inter groups, nobody knows/wants to know what may be missing in their own/related upstream/downstream/remote chains. Under such a case the only rule of the jungle is to eat thy flesh and survive.

Hope this will change for good this time. However, I doubt it, as a quantum approach will not work and a wholesome structural change is needed internally. Intel as I know of, is a not a company to break itself and grow. ( that needs dreams and not arrogance)

So..... let’s wait and buzz till then... for the birth of a new monster/death of our own!

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Good post OP and requires reading and another case study about how a monopoly and success can and most likely poisons and results in a collapse as market changes, Innovators curse I would say!

The inflection started CRBs days and he, PSO and BK were the three Stooges and never could separate itself from the golden goose and a culture was poisoned thru and thru all the way down to most FLM. There simply is/was and will always be the innovators challenge when a new thing comes ( Mobile, AI, graphics) all missed and late, tipping point during PSO doubling down on x86. BK was too stupid to have a real and surgical and intelligent strategy with execution plan for any success. The monkey from San Jose State is gone and change will need to come from outside and it will be painful.

It is a testament to how much talent and how large was the competitor moat that intel still has the cash cow of x86 and server but the Titanic hit the iceberg during PSO and really it all falls to BoD and Andy for the larger failure

Chop chop and down the worst case bottom will like great icon go like Kodak and Motorola best case get a Gerstner turn around like IBM and a shell of itself and what might have been.

So appropriate for the 50th anniversary what a bungled situation by BoD and senior leaders, bit starts with Andy Byrant failure

Great reply, 3jrd! I have found most management to be completely inept. None of them understand the concept or rules of project management in order to optimize manpower and resources. The engineers generally end up doing the manager's job for them. And it's not without bounds for a manager to call an employee at 7 PM and make some excuse that they can't attend a meeting the next day to present to higher level mgmt so they ask the engineer to spend his wonderful evening quickly putting a presentation together AND present it to cover the manager's a--. So irresponsible, inept and incompetent. Then they'll say some bu$$sh$t about it being good for the engineer to have "exposure". What a crock that these managers can't even do their own work!

VPs, Directors and Managers at Intel 😂 😂 😂 r a joke.

I have not seen a more flawed system of management than at Intel

They can't do anything without a TA or an office-a-dmin doing basic tasks for them. My director of 30yrs at Intel couldn't even operate MS word.

Intel management no matter how low in food-chain needs an a-dmin to create basic calendar meetings, create their power points, write their documents ...

At other Fortune 100, companies, managers/management do so much for their people, organization and company. They are exemplary leaders.

Management at Intel means u r now king, and are allowed to be as incompetent, dummb as possible. Exploit anyone you want😂 😂 😂 Now u have full rights to assign a person to do ALL your work for you, while u practice being absent or attend the meetings to say a few words of bu!!$hit to make your presence known and then disappear for d day.

Management structure at Intel is flawed. Either you are technical or a people's manager. This is not correct. Now I work for a software company and I am a Technical Manager, I foresee issues with the development of software and provide guidance to my team. At Intel, when we had a technical problem, we had no one to help us. Intel forces you to leave your expertise to become a manager. I am glad I never left my technical career.

@bga, there is bigger fish that needs to go - BOD

Over the years, managerial skill have trumped engineering skills. Good engineers are expected to be ICs forever and it has become so that only managers can lead teams and groups. Things are so worse that Communications has more say in a group than the Engineers. This needs to change. Good engineers are way more important in a company like Intel.

There is plenty more where BK comes from that needs cleaning. Fortunately they got the big fish so he will no longer be around to terrorize the townspeople. Humiliation was well deserved.

Its a start. There are too many managers at Intel who are un-ethical, dont follow even the screwed up Intel rules and dont manager from the heart. Change needs to happen from the top. All they did so far was to start at the bottom and layoff engineers whenever and whoever.

"While Intel’s financials currently look good they largely got that way through massive cuts which damaged the firm’s future,” Enderle said. “They gutted the PC and server units while staffing up things like graphics development (they are decades behind NVIDIA and AMD), autonomous driving (investing in the same sensors Tesla found inadequate), and things like Drone Swarms (which appear targeted at the tiny fireworks segment). During this time both Apple and Microsoft indicated a pivot away from x86 to ARM and AMD began to make significant inroads suggesting Intel’s strategic future had been crippled.”

BK's exit is but one of about 250 things that Intel needs to do to right the ship (or more likely tear the ship into it's components, build a couple of ships and sell one)...

https://venturebeat.com/2018/06/22/the-strange-case-of-intel-ceos-departure-for-fraternization/

Thread regarding Intel Corp. layoffs

BK was the only problem with Intel - that he is gone everything will be OK now??

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