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item 4 is particularly interesting. it sounds like IBM's greatest missed opportunities -- really huge ones -- were caused by failures in business/marketing/mana
by HillaryBriss 9y ago
item 4 is particularly interesting. it sounds like IBM's greatest missed opportunities -- really huge ones -- were caused by failures in business/marketing/management, not engineering and technology.
- graycat 9y agoRight: With high irony, top management believed that their special abilities were in marketing and not technology, but, except for marketing cash cow mainframes to big customers locked in due to their unique applications software, the marketing was awful while the technology was terrific. As I started with, IBM was a sick culture.