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What was the deal with this? Was it that the internal management team just mis-managed the product they had?
by czbond 5y ago
What was the deal with this? Was it that the internal management team just mis-managed the product they had?
- max_ 5y agoOn a long enough time horizon, everyone's survival rate goes to zero. [0]: [Why Cities Keep on Growing, Corporations Always Die, and Life Gets Faster] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jOnWowd-7HQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jOnWowd-7HQ
- lotsofpulp 5y agoIt was just IBM throwing stuff at the wall to try and keep up with big tech companies. They have been in decline for a long time, and I assume this marketing stunt did not fool anyone actually involved in the businesses of healthcare or tech.
- DebtDeflation 5y agoIt wasn't a product. It was a business unit created by the acquisition of (at least) 4 separate companies that had wildly disparate products, data sets, and consulting teams. The only thing they had in common was the focus on healthcare (and even that could mean anything vaguely related to providers, payers, or life sciences). "Watson" in general evolved into little more than a branding that was applied to anything remotely related to AI, analytics, or data management.
- fault1 5y agoIt kind of sounds like a cautionary tale for other tech companies wading into the health space or medicine (e.g, calico, deepmind).