IBM - Great Innovations, with Executives looking to Retire
Pros
Currently IBM has the Greatest tech research capabilities in the world. What IBM can bring to bear on a client's problems has no equal. The company's core businesses are exclusive tech monopolies with such significant advantages in speed, cost, capabilities, and performance that competing against them with a subpar offering can be Corporate Suicide.
Cons
A complete inability to present our client's IBM's best offerings. When requesting a high performance system, we offer cloud with self-help capabilities. When asking for the best resources available, we send in the backup landed resource intern. When asked to beat the market we put forward corporate plans that mirror lesser companies strategies at profit margins lower than theirs. When asked to "Think" we don't. Employees are prioritized below profits, client relationships, and fiefdom loyalties. Many of the executives are survivors of the 90's layoffs and near corporate death. They feel entitled to ride the company into the sunset while promising easy advancement for those who remain after they've sucked the company dry of all opportunity.
