Good management knows to make billions from a couple of planks and some rope, but after 22 quarters IBM management has not expanded the business proportionate to its resources and city-sized talent pool.
Let Watson handle management performance ratings (and compensation) from here. If Watson's evaluation does not match results then Watson has a problem - a good testcase to prove to the world that Watson compares to serious products like Duplex from Google.
Watson will rate you as a poor performing manager if you did not give any raises. lol
Look who is crapping their pants now lol
Good job Bain!
I was wondering when the mgmt bloat was going to get trimmed and now we know its coming.
YES!
I'm not entirely sure Watson could be trained to do this, which services would you use (I'm honestly interested if you do know)? You might be able to do it with some of the older analytics packages we slapped the Watson brand onto I guess.
Impossible to fool all the people all the time.
IBM has showcased Watson and it understands Natural Language - a feat that is orders of magnitude more complex than a yes/no checklist for rating performance.
Leave it to Watson, sit back, and watch it recommend long-overdue corrections by exposing a deeply entrenched crony network that has infiltrated management and senior technical, and used fancy jargon to mask five years of consistent erosion of a legacy built on the blood, sweat, and tears of generations of brilliant people.
Watson can be reliably trained by any number of independent very capable management consulting companies (Boston Consulting, McKinsey, perhaps even Bains). Why not give Watson a chance to shine.
@jyh is IBM management material!!
Watson could never do performance ratings. Watson would rely on data to decide that people who make sales should stay, and executives who add no value to the company should leave. That is not how IBM performance is rated.
@jyh: 'makes no sense' is vague.
I think the OP means Watson may (be trained to) evaluate management performance without human bias.
wikipedia has an entry for "eating your own dog food".
Makes no sense
It’s called eating your own dog food. IBM managers give dog food a bad name!