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Current employee here. They have identified and are focused on changing this. IBM is moving towards technology provider role (from consulting focus). This is al
by rusticpenn 4y ago
Current employee here. They have identified and are focused on changing this. IBM is moving towards technology provider role (from consulting focus). This is also reflected by the new CEO who comes from research background and was the main person pushing towards buying of Redhat.
- rexreed 4y agoThe forces of resistance to change and the pro-services culture at IBM are strong. Very strong. See how far the desire and will to change goes when placed up against the marketing and sales culture at IBM and pressures from the market.
- jldugger 4y ago> The forces of resistance to change and the pro-services culture at IBM are strong. Very strong. Well yea, most of their headcount is consultants now, right? Corporate America might not be a democracy but neither can executives change the culture by edict.
- efitz 4y agoOrly? Satya Nadella ended the Windows/Office duopoly at Microsoft. A lot (most?) of the OG senior leadership left. No more proprietary OS lock-ins; Windows even can run Linux in a subsystem now (WSL). VSCode is open source. I’d say he’s been fairly successful in changing the corporate culture. Time will tell if Azure is any worse or better than the other cloud providers wrt lock-in.
- QuarterReptile 4y agoI'd be very excited to see any such change come to pass, as an employee of a significantly larger, older, and even more bureaucratic organization.
- rexreed 4y agoThe US Government?
- artificialLimbs 4y agoOr AT&T.
- QuarterReptile 4y agoThat's the one.
- mech422 4y agoyeah - we were accquired as part of their 'cloud services' shopping spree... so far, it seems like they're TRYING to drive off the very people they acqui-hired. Contracts seem more like a Tata level staff aug. then a 'professional services' play.