Many sites, products and services will be sunset so major layoffs are coming this year.
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The layoffs 2 weeks ago were NOT performance related.
Folks. IBM is transitioning to a fortune 250 strategy and “strategic” initiatives. If you don’t fit into those two buckets the odds of you being gone are very good. Remember Fotune 250 are “blue suiters” in the Fortune 250 worldwide enterprises. Strategic initiatives are a “cloud” like model which means there is very little outward marketing , but rather building a model that has folks beating a path to your door. AGAIN REMEMBER it’s a fortune 250 strategy THUS you don’t need much marketing or sales. The channel will get everything that remains outside of the fortune 250 and “strategic” initiatives. It they generate leads that feed the “cloud” strategy so be it, but the model doesn’t count one cent on any of these leads. Will some Skeleton Niche Sales and marketing remain. Of course IBM is very big, BUT you are witnessing and living the “right sizing” of IBM. It’s a very skinny model
layoff 2 weeks ago was performance related. it was the typical don't average a certain quota you are gone. true RA is coming after think conference, don't want the negativity in vegas, so wait until done.
-ybf yes, it did happen. There was a pretty big RA two weeks ago. Posts were here and on watching ibm facebook page.
Hearing that Smarter Workforce aka Kenexa got hit hard today. Dev and Software Config teams axed in half. Other news has Littleton it self being shut down, not on rumors but on obvious moves to shift anything of value to another site, labs are 10% of what it was 5 years ago. Writing is on the wall.
I heard Watson’s AI training is almost complete and it will finish running the company into the ground.
The last one was confirmed too and nothing happened.
If they have time for agile nonsense then obviously the clients are not that important.
Good business model IBM, real class act.