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IBM always seems to be in the process of shifting it's strategy. When I was there around 2006/7, they were in the process of cutting down on R&D, reducing it's
by edge17 11y ago
IBM always seems to be in the process of shifting it's strategy. When I was there around 2006/7, they were in the process of cutting down on R&D, reducing it's footprint in the hardware space, and generally moving towards services (presumably because the margins were very high). I would say it's a large company that's trying to find it's place in the world again. That's not to say they don't make a ton of money, but over the last 20 or so years they've been 'getting out of' a lot of businesses.
- Zigurd 11y agoFrom the outside, that looks like a good summary. IBM found that services are price sensitive, and IBM's name goes only so far in holding off pricing pressure. The question is whether the new R&D efforts will get sufficient resources to build enough value to more the needle. It could be that IBM's move to services is a last move and that things like Watson won't get the resources to be competitive with Google, Microsoft, Apple and other players in deep learning and AI.