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Sam's EPS target was the singular focus during that time. Executive management squeezed everything for the last penny during that period, IMO setting the path t
by thedougd 5y ago
Sam's EPS target was the singular focus during that time. Executive management squeezed everything for the last penny during that period, IMO setting the path to failure.
- 2sk21 5y agoExactly! Palmisano was squeezing every last cent and starving the company of resources for developing the future. Even by 2008, it was clear hat cloud computing was the next big wave and yet IBM built out its own half-baked internal cloud offering before acquiring Softlayer
- osipov 5y ago>Sam's EPS target Yes, but on the flip side Sam was getting results. Ginny failed to capitalize of Watson, Software, and Cloud.