Company: IBM
Date: 2012-05-14
Overall rating: 1/5
Employment status: former

IBM = I'm By Myself (and it's true!)
Pros: IBM continues to hone it's corporate markeing around Smarter Planet and Advanced Analytics.  And IBM Research continues to be an innovation engine that develops industry-leading assets and IP.
Cons: Unfirtunately, the IBM culture over last 2 years has moved from a strategic to tactical approach with an intense, zealot-like focus on weekly cadence and pipeline.  Management by edict is now the norm with little collaborative effort.  “Every man, woman and child for themselves” is the new company mantra, or should be.  Very little effort is invested in employee development, strategic asset development and long-term client relationship building.  Overall client satisfaction is at or near historic lows by nearly all measures.  The need to cut costs, to always make “the numbers” and drive share price has cast a long, dark shadow over the long-term viability of IBM’s inherit ability to innovate and deliver real, meaningful long-term value to its clients.