●● IRC: #techbytes @ Techrights IRC Network: Monday, August 26, 2024 ●● ● Aug 26 [04:00] schestowitz[TR2] " [04:00] schestowitz[TR2] 5qye Your observation of IBM is spot on. When IBM was all things to everyone they were approx 430k headcount. Since then they have at least 1/2ed the size of the company (product and services wise) which would say they should be a 215k sized enterprise company. I suspect they also believe that, and thats why you are seeing the continuing restructuring. [04:00] schestowitz[TR2] 10 hours ago by Anonymous [04:00] schestowitz[TR2] | 1 reaction (+1/-0) [04:00] schestowitz[TR2] Post ID: @5xyp+1u6pzyzH [04:00] schestowitz[TR2] +5 [04:00] schestowitz[TR2] One could blame IBM's problems on Indian culture or something like that, but that would be too easy. IMHO, IBM's problems are much simpler...they've gotten rid of so much of their business over the years that they are now a much smaller company. As a smaller company, they can't cook the books and hide the dirty laundry nearly as much as they once did. [04:00] schestowitz[TR2] The bottom line is that IBM now has just three major lines of business...enterprise hardware, enterprise software and enterprise consulting. They used to operate dozens of development and manufacturing sites and hundreds of sales offices...that number of much, much smaller today. Employees are largely remote. How big a CIO operation does IBM really need at this point? (Remember that CIO is IBM's internal IT department.) [04:00] schestowitz[TR2] " [04:00] schestowitz[TR2] https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1u6pzyzH [04:01] -TechBytesBot/#techbytes- ( status 403 @ https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1u6pzyzH ) ● Aug 26 [06:02] *Now talking on #techbytes [06:02] *Topic for #techbytes is: Welcome to the official channel of the TechBytes Audiocast [06:02] *Topic for #techbytes set by schestowitz!~roy@haii6za73zabc.irc at Tue Jun 1 20:21:34 2021 [06:06] *Now talking on #techbytes [06:42] *parsifal (~parsifal@6thegygyadsu4.irc) has joined #techbytes [06:42] *parsifal has quit (Quit: Leaving) [06:43] *x-amarsh04 has quit (Quit: Konversation terminated!) [06:45] *x-amarsh04 (~amarsh04@fhn7a8axawcea.irc) has joined #techbytes ● Aug 26 [10:29] *rsheftel14353 (~rsheftel@freenode-ims.ilv.1cipql.IP) has joined #techbytes [10:29] *rsheftel1435 has quit (Connection closed) [10:29] *rsheftel14353 is now known as rsheftel1435 ● Aug 26 [12:09] *x-amarsh04 has quit (Quit: Konversation terminated!) 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The same will happen around the world using various excuses (RTO, PIP, outsourcing, spinoff, AI replacement, etc etc) IBM knows they are very overm [15:01] schestowitz[TR2] anned and need to address it. SW division will be hit the hardest as AI can replace almost 50% of the headcount. Consulting will take the next big hit as repetitive tasks will be automated. Finally infrastructure will have to partner up on the low end of products as their profit margins cant be squeezed any harder. The end result is IBM may be finally getting down to an enterprised sized business. [15:01] schestowitz[TR2] " [15:01] schestowitz[TR2] " You are absolutely right. CIO is nothing but an unnecessary expense and a drain on the whole company. There are NO Data Centers inside IBM any more, so why the huge expense and and multiple layers of management who allegedly support the remote Data Center infrastructure ? Why keep so many CIO VPs, Directors, Senior managers, managers and the like when you can cut these Middlemen out and save a bundle ? Has any one in CIO looked i [15:01] schestowitz[TR2] nto how much duplication of effort there is for the projects they work on ? A heck of a lot and the VPs, Directors, managers cover it all up in the name of DevOps, Security, Cloud and the like. After all, calling them out for duplication of effort means they will be on the next layoff list if they can't justify their positions, which should not really exist. CIO is nothing but an old boys and old girls network that have outlived it [15:01] schestowitz[TR2] 's usefulness. [15:01] schestowitz[TR2] The whole Infrastructure operation can be outsourced to a cheaper partner and Alvind saves more for his annual Christmas bonus. Why not use AI, it has all the benefits that IBM keeps talking about particularly automation ? And you then have a runbook on how to do the same thing elsewhere inside IBM too, and bring out more efficiency. [15:01] schestowitz[TR2] Same applies to Applications groups who have lots of unnecessary projects in the name of improving revenue which are wasteful and bring in ZERO revenue. Anyone done a cost benefit analysis of these projects recently ? It will never happen. [15:01] schestowitz[TR2] And, the same applies to the Strategy group under F&O - what extra work do they do to justify the headcount ? Nothing - you can hire a bunch of consultants for less money than it takes to feed and water this group of time wasters. [15:01] schestowitz[TR2] The bottom line - more cuts need to come to F&O and not just in Brazil but throughout the globe, particularly the US and India. There are NO sacred cows or bulls, except BS. " [15:13] schestowitz[TR2]
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    • [15:13] -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-www.howtoforge.com | How to Install Ubuntu 24.04 (Noble Numbat) Minimal Server [15:47] *jacobk (~quassel@4k2kw6a55wre2.irc) has joined #techbytes ● Aug 26 [17:21] *psydroid2 has quit (Ping timeout: 2m30s) [17:25] *psydroid2 (~psydroid@j9gt2haw74jrk.irc) has joined #techbytes [17:53] *psydroid3 has quit (Quit: KVIrc 5.0.0 Aria http://www.kvirc.net/) ● Aug 26 [20:28] *jacobk has quit (Ping timeout: 2m30s) [20:49] *psydroid3 (~psydroid@j9gt2haw74jrk.irc) has joined #techbytes ● Aug 26 [22:37] schestowitz[TR2] Hi, [22:37] schestowitz[TR2] Did you get our message dated 21/8 with 2 attachments? [22:37] schestowitz[TR2] Asking because I just saw: [22:37] schestowitz[TR2] Microsoft: Exchange Online mistakenly tags emails as malware [22:37] schestowitz[TR2] https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/microsoft/microsoft-exchange-online-mistakenly-tags-emails-as-malware/ [22:37] -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-www.bleepingcomputer.com | Microsoft: Exchange Online mistakenly tags emails as malware [22:43] schestowitz[TR2] https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1uchUSVh [22:43] -TechBytesBot/#techbytes- ( status 403 @ https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1uchUSVh ) [22:43] schestowitz[TR2] " [22:43] schestowitz[TR2] I, for one, can't imagine where the Indian-born leader of IBM might want to move all those jobs to. Nor would I want to speculate about what the man who expressed on a publicly documented call with Indian Prime Minister Modi that IBM intended to make a substantial investment in Indias future, might do. [22:43] schestowitz[TR2] We acknowledge that the mods on this site dont like people expressing facts and sentiments that dont exalt the very great and infallible leader of IBM. So I would never suggest that offshoring thousands of jobs from any country to India is anything but the right and proper thing to do, extremely fair and just, and beyond reproach. [22:43] schestowitz[TR2] " [22:44] schestowitz[TR2] "It's more likely that IBM sales in China have tanked. The only justification for foreign companies to be in China was to gain access to the Chinese market. Without access to that market, there is no reason to be there. Don't forget that there is a major cost to locate in China besides the usual staffing and plant costs...companies had to give their IP output to the CCP. There's no reason to do that without major China sales." http [22:44] schestowitz[TR2] s://www.thelayoff.com/t/1ubM0N0Q ● Aug 26 [23:06] *psydroid3 has quit (Quit: KVIrc 5.0.0 Aria http://www.kvirc.net/) [23:15] *KindOne has quit (connection closed) [23:20] *KindOne (~KindOne@23xffjdf3phbn.irc) has joined #techbytes [23:33] *jacobk (~quassel@3hsvftwc4zuqc.irc) has joined #techbytes