IBM once had a deep, deep bench of engineering talent and squandered it away. They failed to maintain the engineering culture while making many strategic mistak

IBM once had a deep, deep bench of engineering talent and squandered it away. They failed to maintain the engineering culture while making many strategic mistakes (cloud). Starting in the late 2000s and early 10s, executives were crying for 'cloud skills' as part of their continuous 'workforce remix'. Did Amazon build AWS by hiring cloud skills? Of course not. You build a cloud with a wide array of talent including hardware, chip design, software, and systems engineering. IBM had all that available in house.