I personally think that the reason why IBM's top mismanagement can NOT get acquisitions to be successes, is flat-out arrogance that starts with Ginni and spreads across the executive echelon! The execs immediately think that they know more than the... — read more 

Did anything concrete come out of it in the end?

Here we go again... the GTS management "think-tank" come up with their latest innovation... client musical chairs. Another IBM-centric idea dreamed-up by someone with limited or zero experience on the support front-lines and with zero regard for the... — read more 

I know to us this is stating the obvious, but I like it that somebody at least is digging deeper than the surface on the whole Watson Health issue. IBM’s problems with Watson Health run deeper than recent layoffs, former employees say... — read more 

IBM’s shares are down 5% this year to $146, against an advance of the S&P of 3% over the same period. In the last five years, IBM shares are down 27% while the S&P has risen 71%. Whatever IBM’s new products have been, its financial position continues... — read more 

I currently work for Avaloq in one of the data center groups that will be asked to move into an IBM data center by early next year. The exact timing is not clear nor is the exact employment situation. Some Avalog employees may be asked to become IBM... — read more 

They cut my territory by 80% and put me on a PIP sixty days later. It's cheaper than an RA. If you are over 40 they are just looking for any excuse they can use.

Langley vs. IBM Docket -- Docket: 1527798903 The US District Court, Western District of Texas - Action under The Age Discrimination in Employment act of 1967 -- Mr. Langley timely filed a Charge of Discrimination with the EEOC alleging age... — read more 

The open door process at IBM is, at best, a joke. Don't waste your time with it. I went through it and I had a slam-dunk case against a superior (executive) that threatened me (voice and via email) career-wise if I didn't lie about something and then... — read more 

Here is my husband's scenario. He was working for IBM at same client for almost 19 years. Over the past year the client spend has been getting lower and lower and the IBM resources working for the client have been dwindling. He held on as long as... — read more 

I was just put on PIP, 30 days notice. I was late on exactly one task I was given. I always work overtime. Always take on more work. But I also voice my opinion freely and apparently my manager does not like that all that much. Should I even attempt... — read more 

Yet another article: Millennials in, Boomers out? Lawsuit against IBM claims age discrimination in hiring. BY RAY GRONBERG rgronberg@heraldsun.com LINKEDIN GOOGLE+ PINTEREST REDDIT PRINT ORDER REPRINT OF THIS STORY June 04, 2018 12:52 PM Updated 8... — read more 

The current CEO has demonstrated a complete lack of leadership, or understanding of how the market place has moved on her. Her response to the last 6 years has been to save her way to prosperity via cutting the legacy work force. You don’t hire Bain... — read more 

I’ve been getting warnings about possible RA from my mgr for about 18 months now. Somehow, every time, I survive – but the threat never goes away. I frankly think that all of this is crafted to put an additional pressure on older and experienced... — read more 

http://fortune.com/2015/01/25/india-the-next-superpower/ The final factor that could position India as a superpower is its geopolitical advantage. ... Similarly, the U.S. would like to expand bilateral trade with India, which reached $95 billion in... — read more 

Source: Company annual reports & stock market information How does one share of IBM in 2012 fare in comparison since RAmetty took over as CEO? IBM : Stocks: - 14% | div collected : $30.72 | stock repurchases: $52B | Market Cap: - 35% ORCL: Stocks: +... — read more 

The Watching IBM web site has a section with comments from employees RA'd in the May, April and March job cuts here: https://watchingibm.com/ibm-job-cuts/

Hi Folks. I believe IBM hired Bain to break IBM into two pieces. My guess is The break will be Services (IBM India) and everything else (essentially cloud, AI, legacy, patents/research, IGF). As far as services is concerned IBM tends to pick the... — read more 

Has anyone heard about further layoffs in storage and servers?

The old rumor is resurfacing again. We had a lengthy discussion on this a couple of years ago - here is the link @Jwn6fnN - now, what do you think about this today? Is IBM going to sell GBS?

See what Boeing employees in South Carolina just did. Two can play this game.

Hopefully, the first of many more to come. https://medium.com/austin-bureau/ibm-faces-lawsuit-for-age-discrimination-at-austin-offices-8d1db262e52e (Link to full case filing here --... — read more 

Watson Health went from 7000 employees to less than 4000 in the last 5 days. All in the Provider business and WH Cloud GONE. The Simpler Provider team will be next month.They ruin peoples life but the old timers from the PWC and Debra's crew from... — read more 

We haven't built a cloud product that the general market wants. We failed to develop a culture that makes our existing customers want to invest deeper with IBM. On the contrary, they (customers) are in a mad rush to peel us off...

Axed last week. Watson Health... They are keeping about 15 people to close the shop, will happen in early 2019.... This round of cuts is much bigger than anyone is reporting, they care cutting deep and wide, there is no recovery from this one. I am... — read more 

This article shows a good example of how AI can help medical diagnosis. The problem is, it isn't Watson. https://www.yahoo.com/news/ai-better-finding-skin-cancer-doctors-study-230756918.html

They laid off Watson Health people and hire 1800 in France.

Management will soon release a memo regarding in-office hours for the U.S., possibly all of North America. This memo is in response to entry credential data logs from each site. Unknown as to whether this data is being used for other reasons than to... — read more 

More media coverage, courtesy of The Register, on this latest bloodbath. https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/05/25/ibms_watson_layoffs/

Layoffs were reported to have been especially heavy in Ann Arbor, Mich., and Denver.

https://www.wraltechwire.com/2018/05/25/reports-ibm-laying-off-workers-in-watson-health-group-including-triangle/

Yesterday 80% of the workforce was let go from Dallas. What a joke! They never could come up with any product lines and/or reqs. How they will be successful. They just burnt money and blame it on the poor IT people where upper management failed to... — read more 

So while the bloodbath was occurring in Watson Health, look where Ginni was and what she was pitching: https://techcrunch.com/2018/05/23/50-tech-ceos-come-to-paris-to-talk-about-tech-for-good/

1/3 of the entire Truven Provider Client Experience team have been laid off - good luck doing any work after this.

About half of all folks in Provider Acquisition (Watson Health) got axed today. The number may be higher, as things are still transpiring. My estimate is that about 200 folks got axed – as expected, IBM is hiding all relevant info and they are... — read more 

Lot of people in Watson Health Cloud got laid off today in Camridge,MA. 100s of people...Watson is just a marketing tool..no real technology beneath...

I spent over 20 years at IBM and left last year for a new opportunity, I wish I left years earlier. I arrived when Lou Gerstner took over and even though there were many layoffs back then, most people volunteered for lucrative packages and had... — read more 

Starting to see a lot of this around LInkedIn. New VPs telling everyone how great it is to work at IBM. Obviously in a privileged position. The dead giveaway is the final sentence where it mentions IBM facts. What is funny that in the links, the link... — read more