In my brief tenure at IBM after they acquired Blekko I quickly came to realize that the near death experience in the 90's fundamentally changed the company. It

In my brief tenure at IBM after they acquired Blekko I quickly came to realize that the near death experience in the 90's fundamentally changed the company. It gave their Finance team an iron lock on all decisions and all of their decisions were based on 'how much will this cost?' and 'how much will this save?' It made corporate politics easier, if you pitched a project all you had to do was code the language that Finance wanted to hear and even if people didn't "want" it, it could get approved. Quite sad in a way.