IBM Gets Rid of Kelly Chambliss as Mass Layoffs Reported in IBM Consulting, IBM Loses Key Contracts/Graft
IBM Consulting has been in disarray lately [1, 2, 3, 4]. Now it's time to go.
"Jettisoning Ms. Chambliss is just the beginning. There's going to be many more shake-ups in Consulting," says this thread from earlier tonight. It links to [1] below and there's a similar article in [2]. However, the "Real Kicker" is this earlier gossip. Someone wrote: "Retired leaving October 2025 but immediately being replaced by Neil Dhar has all the writing of given the choice of being fired or retire. They would of given her 6 months pay anyway so now she can use IBM resources to get a job with clients etc. Standard executive dismissal when the job performance was fine but the door will hit ya on the way out one way or the other. A professional up yours."
The latest comment said: "PwC all but fired Neil Dhar, who was relieved of command and booted from leadership for shady electioneering when he campaigned to lead their US business in March 2024. This ethical sl--e bucket is a perfect fit for IBM. There must have been another reason Alvind gave this PwC reject a second chance... but I can’t quite put my head bob on it. https://www.irishtimes.com/business/2024/03/05/pwc-strips-partners-of-leadership-roles-over-election-rule-breaches/"
PwC is also where Sheela Microsoft, the wife of Jim Zemlin (Linux Foundation), had come from. She then defrauded people.
The EPO also paid PwC to cover up its abuses and corruption. We wrote a lot about this almost a decade ago.
Corrupt or questionable people being put in charge of IBM is a bad sign, further reinforcing the belief the company cheats on its finances. █
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Consulting Giants Offer Billions in Cuts to Federal Contracts. It Might Not Be Enough.
The 10 biggest U.S. consulting firms to the federal government have offered to cut billions of dollars from their contracts with agencies but face pushback from the Trump administration to deliver even deeper savings.
Companies including Accenture, Booz Allen Hamilton, Deloitte, IBM and others met the General Services Administration deadline this week to justify their contracts and identify potential cost cuts to existing projects. Trump administration officials are expected to go back to some of the firms, demanding further price concessions or other revisions, according to people familiar with the review process.
Some companies missed the mark by submitting too little in savings or by sending voluminous pages of PowerPoint slides explaining their work, the people said, while other firms identified detailed potential cuts. At least one company outlined $12 billion in potential savings to the government, according to a person familiar with the matter.
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Deloitte is the biggest loser so far in DOGE's consulting crackdown
The list includes Accenture, Booz Allen Hamilton, IBM, and General Dynamics.
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IBM: 10 contracts, $34.3 million.