{"id":7773,"date":"2020-02-03T15:13:30","date_gmt":"2020-02-03T21:13:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=7773"},"modified":"2020-02-03T15:13:31","modified_gmt":"2020-02-03T21:13:31","slug":"ibms-lost-decade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=7773","title":{"rendered":"IBM\u2019s Lost Decade"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.platformonomics.com\/2020\/02\/ibms-lost-decade\/\">Charles Fitzgerald<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I wasn\u2019t going to do this post until I learned IBM PR is out browbeating reporters (one of the rare activities where the company is still world class) for being \u201ctoo harsh\u201d by including actual performance metrics in stories about IBM\u2019s CEO transition. So I shall rally to the defense of the fourth estate (who tippytoed around the performance issue if anything) and help frame the outgoing CEO\u2019s legacy (TL:DR missed the cloud transition).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>Ginny Rometty was CEO of IBM for less than a decade, but kudos to the company for an uncharacteristic bout of out-performance by packing more than a decade\u2019s worth of decline into just eight years. The \u201clost decade\u201d of this post\u2019s title is perhaps charitable as it implies they merely went sideways, when in fact the questions surrounding the company are now existential. I suggested IBM was not going to make the cloud computing transition in early 2013, and they have gone on to make that warning look very prescient.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>Lets review Rometty\u2019s reign:<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Charles Fitzgerald: I wasn\u2019t going to do this post until I learned IBM PR is out browbeating reporters (one of the rare activities where the company is still world class) for being \u201ctoo harsh\u201d by including actual performance metrics in stories about IBM\u2019s CEO transition. So I shall rally to the defense of the fourth [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7773"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7773"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7773\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7774,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7773\/revisions\/7774"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}