Really though, strategic is such an over-used term at IBM.
Actually, not it's not. Now the quoted IBMer might have been using the
term loosely, but there have not been many corporately recognized
"strategic" things in IBMs life, and most (all?) have been doomed.
Frank Soltis does a wonderful pitch on why we never want i to become
strategic. Dr. Frank describes how IBM has take great ideas (SAA, San
Francisco, OS/2, etc) and made them strategic. He then describes the way
IBM works with those ideas, they way more and more people want to be
involved in those ideas, and the way those people all want to leave
their imprint on the project. Before long the project is nothing like it
started out, will never be what is should have been, and dies a slow and
painful death, especially painful for those that got onboard w/it early
on.
Is the talk sarcastic? Sure. But off point? Probably not. Being a true
corporate "strategic" plan is the kiss of death in IBM.
-Walden
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(Whatever is said in Latin seems profound.)
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