"It must be considered that there is nothing more difficult to carry out nor more doubtful of success nor more dangerous to handle than to initiate a new order of things; for the reformer has enemies in all those who profit by the old order, and only lukewarm defenders in all those who would profit by the new order; this lukewarmness arising partly from the incredulity of mankind who does not truly believe in anything new until they actually have experience of it." ~ Niccolo Machiavelli
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Change, LOL, list one company besides Apple that has really morphed the company and was successful?
BK is no Job's, If we only had another Andy or Rob would this company have any chance....
Sorry to say the outlook is more than grim, It isn't if but only when, LOL
This change will fix nothing that had created this downfall in the first place: executives with poor vision and accountability, expensive random acquisitions that resulted in nothing, too much of middle management bureaucracy that retards every technical decision making. (Does 10 committee meetings each attended by 20 people to fix a silly bug sound familiar)? Only yesterday DCG had a fete at historical land grab. Every top brass grabbed whatever remained after firing many, all in the name of the tired corporate buzz words: efficiency, synergy, alignment, customer focus, collaboration, . . .same people doing same things with different titles and expecting superior results?
Soylent green
Constraints on resources in the wrong culture result in Lord of the Flies (or Hunger Games)...choose your metaphor in which people stab each other in the back for the scraps.
Good and thoughtful thread. Constraints on resources can be a stimulus for creativity - so being resource constrained isn't a bad thing. However, we still have a multilayered and complex systems and processes that create bureaucracy and stifle velocity. Until we dump our process we're going to be just as slow and bogged down as we've always been.
Intel like the human centipede. The back end dies off first and if it gets too long, just cut it in half.
Well said ckc. Made me chuckle but in reality it's rather sad.
I'm not sure that Intel leadership actually knows what "the change" needs to be other than, perhaps, less PC focus and lower labor costs accomplished by cutting people, sites and programs. They certainly haven't come to grips with the cultural changes needed.
The real difficulty will be for Intel employees in this context. There still really aren't any incentives (and plenty of dis-incentives) for putting one's neck out to either propose something innovative or call BS on bad ideas supported by leadership.
To mix metaphors: The new world order; same as the old world order. Just more backstabby in a more resource-constrained environment of fear, distrust and chaos.
Good times ahead!