An IBM spokesperson said the client considering the customer contact center no longer needed it. “Despite that development, IBM has continued driving significant growth in our local operations and we are actively working to bring even more... — read more 

Nothing's done until it's done. https://www.wraltechwire.com/2019/03/12/signs-emerge-ibm-red-hat-merger-may-face-delay-ibm-says-its-still-on/

Be careful where you store your photos. Earlier this year IBM released a dataset of 1 million photos of people's faces designed to reduce bias in facial recognition software. I was surprised that the pictures were taken from Flickr & so investigated... — read more 

Lack of vision, lack of industry understanding, lack of performance. Three strikes. Time's up. When is she going to do the honorable deed and step down?

There are no safe jobs when revenue is flat, profit is down, and red hat has to be paid for. But let's also get real, even if you stay you're facing declining benefits, and nothing resembling a raise, let alone a COLA. At best you'll tread water, at... — read more 

Just received this email -- Ready to Ask Ginni Anything? Get your questions ready for Ginni’s next Ask Me Anything session. Submit questions on your mind about IBM, and Ginni will answer the most often-asked themes. You have until Tuesday, March 12... — read more 

March 29 2017 and March 29 2018, end of the quarter - we had large RAs on both dates. Let's see what this year brings.

It's bloody over there, massive layoffs on the services side. You can bet there will be huge hits in GBS soon, the two are correlated and our GBS SAP practice will have massive hits IMHO.

Hi. I've got friends, with open positions, in those organizations. Does anyone know the future of these orgs, in general, but specifically regarding layoffs? I'm not happy where I am, but feel somewhat safe, and thankful to be employed. Thanks.

This should help IBM become a dominant cloud player. . . https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2019/02/supermicro-hardware-weaknesses-let-researchers-backdoor-an-ibm-cloud-server/

Buffett used lessons learned from IBM when thinking about Oracle, he said Monday. “Larry Ellison’s done a fantastic job with Oracle,” Buffett said. “Oracle is a great business, but I don’t think, particularly after my experience with IBM, I don’t... — read more 

Though not specifically mentioning IBM, this article (link below) is a clear explanation of what is happening (like in many other companies) to IBM today. Very interesting... — read more 

Seems the corporate PR machine really has successfully sabotaged IBM's section on Glassdoor. https://finance.yahoo.com/video/why-ibm-dream-employer-gen-185722778.html

Source below, this has been put together by Mark Renkert and Scott Decker... We have a Case Study Research have, access, and be able to name and call your previous (the employer you were laid off from, “Big-Blue” in this case) employer’s direct... — read more 

This board has been really quiet.... Any signs of layoffs now than Think is over?

https://streamable.com/93ovh Ginni: "That's a trillion dollar market, and we'll be number 1 in it" (speaking about the Hybrid Cloud play)

https://www.forbes.com/sites/siliconangle/2019/02/14/analysis-ibm-ceo-declares-chapter-2-of-cloud-and-ai-at-ibm-think-2019/ Stop messing around with easy introductory chapters, let's go straight to Chapter 9 and Chapter 11, where we can talk real... — read more 

Ginni , then why are customers cancelling contracts and seeking new contractors? https://www.healthnewsreview.org/2017/02/md-anderson-cancer-centers-ibm-watson-project-fails-journalism-related/

An amusing article. . . http://fortune.com/2019/02/14/ibm-ceo-rometty-ai-watson/

IBM is using Kubernetes to enable Watson AI to run on public clouds AWS, Google, and Microsoft .

IBM needs cash to pay off the red hat purchase...who’s next to spin off and generate some cash? Rumour is next up is the multi tennant stuff.

IGF customers were informed in Feb that “some” current financial contracts will not be extended Channel floor financing looks to have been sent to Lenovo financing OEM financing looks to be discontinued after 6/30/2019 All current contracts will be... — read more 

(Reuters) - The chief executives of Apple Inc, Walmart Inc, IBM Corp and other major companies are joining a Trump administration advisory board that hopes to prepare U.S. workers to deal with job training issues and the workforce shift brought by... — read more 

So wait: somehow due to whatever accounting wizardry IBM was using previously to calculate their numbers, with the new corporate tax law, they are saying they took a $1.9B hit to profits? I'm not a tax accountant nor a tax attorney, but seems to me... — read more 

I find it quite disturbing to see people targeting this group and that group, various mid-level positions, the poor managers, and so on, as THE PROBLEM at IBM. I’m sure some of those people might be problematic but the majority of mid to lower... — read more 

If you removed 45.3% of management @ IBM today you have the exact same number of managers Microsoft has. What value does that 45% more management bring to IBM? ~Sourced Google Analytics for the numbers information accurate Jan. 2019. A short post by... — read more 

The entire Distinguished Engineer program needs to be re-evaluated. Such an antiquated and irrelevant concept for today, not to mention rife with favouritism. It’s hardly an honour to receive anymore.

Anyone know what the final attendance projection is for Think 2019 conference? How strong was the signup this year?

Anyone who has any skills and knows what they’re doing knows the true problem at IBM GBS, the glut of Band 10 and above that are worthless, absolutely terrible leaders, have dictatorship mentality, and make sure on one has better checkpoint results... — read more 

They can start with any non-client facing team. Distinguished Engineers who sit in their ivory tower. People who do “go to market” from home, creating demos of tools that don’t work. Layers of bureaucracy in the proposal release process. The GBS... — read more 

Looking for real advice from people who might know how this works. I’m very concerned because I got a terrible review this year for political reasons. I filed a grievance, with lots of partner level support, but I know that won’t help so I’m... — read more 

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Although the article makes no mention about whether or not IBM received any tax incentives, but guessing IBM has once again snow-jobbed a state but will be unable to deliver on a promise of a certain amount of jobs created... — read more 

The CFO is treating each segment of the business separately and adjusting accordingly. See page 18 of his presentation to analysts Cognitive (79% + profits) 67% of revenue is strategic. THUS it makes sense for the CFO to sell assets that don’t align... — read more 

That's what I've hard in the office and on the project. Three unrelated sources. Nobody was certain, so it's a rumor in a true sense of the term. I see some ramblings here on layoffs.com but really, nobody knows. We'll know soon enough and at this... — read more 

Massive reorg in GBS being executed as we speak. In my cluster, roles we were informed would be changing in January have now even changed again. Lots of chaos and confusion everywhere and JRSSs changing constantly- one of my colleagues had hers... — read more 

I'm starting to think we are due one really soon...

Anybody have any insight to when the RA and Layoffs will start at IBM in 2019, or how big it will be. Lots of rumors floating around out there but it seems the employee have zero data about what groups, how big, or what percent and when this is all... — read more 

A former executive said under oath that her superiors at IBM asked her to cover up layoffs of older employees from the government agency. While in any other case something like this would be huge, I'm still doubtful it will mean much for IBM and any... — read more 

Roughly 5 min. video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RjOI1vRl8II