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Watson: IBM's Healthcare Moonshot Flatlines and Dies
And in so doing, the last body of the Ginni Rometty era at IBM is buried. Feel free to go back and check our past works on this topic (links in full article). I do not believe our views about her calamitous mismanagement were difficult to detect back then or now.
By all reasonable measures, Ms. Rometty was a complete and total disaster for IBM, and the scuttling of Watson is the last act to:
1. Memorialize her failure 2. Cast in stone her fraudulent attempts to financially engineer the company by:
Gutting its culture
Killing off its innovation
Axing tens of thousands of its best and brightest people
3. Put the final nail in the coffin of her legacy, cementing her as the worst leader in IBM history
Now, I think I know what you are thinking….you are probably thinking this is a pointless blog because everyone already knows that the Top 3 technology research services firms are Gartner, Forrester, and IDC, right?
Well, what if I told you that after much industry consolidation, we took a detailed look at the 39 remaining firms we cover (after 15 firms we used to track have been acquired), and that those supposed top 3 market heavyweights that you believe are the best, do not even make it to our Top 5 List!
With SAP Cloud Revenue exceeding expectations and SAP Management cheering on the RISE program, it looks like they finally have been able to get some traction with a business change program.
However, we caution our Clients in taking a shortcut in your deliberations and not disregard the natural decision-making window of opportunity. These choices will have far-reaching impacts for your future and careers.
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