Our performance is taking a hit because our management philosophy is outdated and doesn't seem to be able to handle even basic problems. This old way of thinking and doing things is holding us back and causing IBM to struggle. We need to shake things up and adopt a more modern approach to management or we're not going to make much progress.
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You think??? Had the chance to shake it up with Whitehurst,and even he couldn't shake the stodgy greedy execs that have no vision. Frankly don't even understand technology.
And of course, top mgt recognized their error and fixed it...by punishing Rochester:
"IBM eventually started started reining its sassy Med City child by spreading parts of design and manufacture of the AS/400 and its descendants across several sites."
Not a new problem
"IBM's Rochester site for a couple decades was known as the headquarters for the AS-400, one of Big Blue's most popular machines ever.
The story goes that Rochester actually misled IBM's head office during the development of "Silver Lake," the code for the AS-400. IBM actually wanted a different machine."
https://www.postbulletin.com/opinion/ibm-rochester-as-400-absorbed-10-years-ago
There are, and have been, too many layers of mgt at IBM. Top management is too separated from the real lower-level development world. Top mgt cannot see, and does not want to see and be a part of, lower level work. This is not a new problem.