Any management team that ruins a once bellwether tech company should be eliminated by shareholders at the earliest opportunity. They should be given time to pack their belongings and exit, and should be denied their pension.
IBM's many layers of management are expensive and simply impossible to justify after 21 quarters of decline despite billions in (inherited) revenue, and 400000 people. There is no place at IBM for politicians who have no ideas, no prospects, no ability to create, no talent to sell, and shame of all - no handle on technology.
These individuals fatten themselves by buying time to retirement. They have taken home thick paychecks over the years, and if they started early enough to participate in a pension plan then they will fight tooth and nail to retire with pension. To justify their existence they will wrestle with others like them for control of the spoils created by generations of hard-working and meritorious folks who made IBM.
IBM management strategy "experts" pay heed: many of your management team excelled once at technology and were promoted to authority without a shred of an idea of how to develop a business plan, or defend an idea in public. They cling together for protection and now they fight like dogs. Shame also on management schools for graduating any humans who have to rely on cost savings by naying projects and personnel to justify their own existence.
Shareholders will reckon with the stark reality that ultimately it is man not machine that fails a company. With Ginni's blessing IBM management is riding the cash flow they inherited and will hang on for dear life to the bitter end unless stopped. The alternative for these people is the real world but, shudder, that would mean competing with talented people who grow businesses.
It is disgraceful what is happening at IBM, just disgraceful.
Originally posted by @NjABlp6-12kyp, bumped to a thread for more people to see.