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Virginia Rometty Selected As Next CEO of IBM
itwbennett writes "IBM will start the new year with a new CEO. Virginia (Ginni) Rometty, who built up IBM Global Services, will be the company's first female CEO."
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I'll guess she'll have to follow suit.
http://www.smh.com.au/victoria/get-your-breasts-out-ibm-employee-sues-20111020-1m8ut.html
I thought IBM purely consisted of gay successful men. That's how their songs put it...
RIP IBM! I won't be sorry to see you go!
Where is the news in this?
Never heard of her until 10 minutes ago, but sounds like she should be able to keep IBM afloat - unlike HP
And IBM begins collapsing in 3 2 1...
So what does this mean for IBM's major products, like AIX and DB2?
Here we are celebrating another newly minted female CEO of a powerhouse corporation. Meanwhile, with the other side of our mouths, we're constantly bemoaning the fact that most Fortune 500 CEOs are greedy parasites, not to mention the large minority who seem to be sociopaths (and not in a figurative way, either).
It reminds me of that small number of feminists who seem to view sexual liberation not in terms of respect, mature dialogue, and winning their freedom from chauvanism, but merely as the freedom for women to be as sex-crazed and/or misandropic as some men are chauvanist and misogynistic.
Perhaps we shouldn't be so proud of women breaking into a job dominated by assholes? Are we assuming that women, unlike the men with whom they successfully competed to get these jobs, will suddenly be nice people when they're the ones on top? I try to understand when people say the pendulum is still swinging, that women need to make further explicit gains before we can just call it all equal, but I still wish we could reserve admiration and outright celebration for simply people who do good things, rather than continuing to break it out into Men and Women.
At some point the lauding of the "first female" this and the constant keeping of score has to stop if you want to say you achieved real equality.
This reminds me of Homer working for Hank Scorpio (terrorist guy) to help him boost productivity: "Uh... Work harder!"
What the hell will she do there?
Why didn't the IBM board offer gagillions to some flash CEO from somewhere else?
Good luck Ginni.
To the tune of Jingle Bells.....
Driving us insane
With pay cuts and RA's
To the bank he goes
Squealing all the way!
Playing with our lives
Leaving tears and blight
Wouldn't it be loads of fun
to string him up tonight?
Chorus:
Oh! Oinker Sam!, Oinker Sam!
How do you sleep at night?
Why do I ask?
A sociopath
Cares for no one but himself
Oinker Sam!, Oinker Sam!
IBM is heading south
Wouldn't he look great
With his head on a plate
And an apple in his mouth!
Working overtime
For this ungrateful swine
What's a little heart attack
If it helps the bottom line?
No one to lend a hand
My colleagues all were canned
Our SLA's have gone tits up
Say thanks to Oinker Sam!
The world ends tomorrow. Details at 11.
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...of former female CEOs, who have all been mediocre (think Carly Fiorina and Meg Whitman). I wish her all the best.
The new CEO is the old head of their services division and oversaw the PriceWaterhouseCoopers takeover in 2002. I think this means that in the coming years, IBM will make a lot more money with a lot less engineers, thanks to their lucrative services business.
If you ask me, it's just a matter of time before the slow death of the server group accelerates into high-speed PC/consumer business style death.
Hold that stock.
Congratulations to Virginia Rometty on her promotion. The glass ceiling isn't shattered yet, but it's cracking.
Is she going to be getting a 25:1 Canadian or Euro style pay package, or is she taking the hundreds to one ratio of many US executives that people are complaining about? The article doesn't say.
IBM is a great place to work or contract. I really enjoyed the time I spent working on a project with them.
I do not fail; I succeed at finding out what does not work.
I wonder if she'll be "getting her breasts out".
http://www.theage.com.au/victoria/get-your-breasts-out-woman-sues-ibm-over-harassment-20111020-1m8ub.html
And if David Kappos' recent move is any indication, her next big step is clear: head up the US Patent and Trademark Office when Kappos leaves. I'm guessing that IBM would love this move because there she can better serve IBM's interests against those of the public. Kappos, current USPTO Director, was former IBM vice president and assistant general counsel of "intellectual property" law. IBM holds the most patents. First-to-file undoubtedly helps large firms like IBM because large firms hire lots of lawyers to file all sorts of patent applications. The more patents IBM holds, the more IBM can cross-license their way out of any threatened patent litigation by threatening countersuit and then negotiating a patent license.
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be the next Gerstner. I just realized that she was fundamental to the offshoring of the company and the selling of the divisions as much as Palmisano. I predict that IBM is the next ATT and watson will be the next Bell Labs. Gutted for short sales in the market place.
I prefer the "u" in honour as it seems to be missing these days.
Since that time I've seen them outsourcing their employees jobs, and I don't know who are their customers anymore. I've seen them lose some remarkable talent to "early retirement" programs. I've seen them sell division after division that were core components of their culture and their business. At one time I felt like even when I wasn't working for them, I knew who IBM was and what they were trying to achieve. Now... I don't. I think they're some sort of storage company.
Anyway, I wish her the best of luck with her... storage company. I'm sure that she'll make ONE BILLION DOLLARS for herself.
I'm trying to teach myself to set people on fire with my mind... Is it hot in here?
No, really. Good luck. Congrats on getting the job and I hope you do well.
I really really hope you don't do to IBM what Gillard has done for Australia. It would be sad to see IBM go..
female primates are way worse than the males; it has to be genetic and it also went on to the humans! females hold on to stuff for a long time and will do nasty things during or finally at the end of that time; won't even be a logical connection, just wham! out from nowhere comes some vindictive thing from the past. at least males deal with it upfront and get over it... that male aggression has a few good sides (just a FEW.)
obviously, there are exceptions, we are not totally run by our genes.
how about human teens? when stuff can still be acted out and self control is weak (that is before we jailed them for being kids, now they fear ...well if they think ahead at all they hold back.) The males can be split up in a fight; especially by a female -- but the fighting females can easily harm anybody who gets in their path. Seen it. heard about it from teachers. ask one, they'll tell you about it. even really upset males it comes down to a chest thumping power show even when elevated with weapons its mostly just a show like apes making noise and throwing sticks.. females will fight to the actual death; if not, they may harm or kill the other's offspring later. good reason to be sure and fight all out now...
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IBM Global Services is so badly run that customer have to sue them to get out of contracts:
http://www.zdnet.com/blog/projectfailures/texas-warns-ibm-on-failed-data-center-consolidation/10370
And that's hardly an isolated incident. You can't believe how inept IBM GS is. Like, they have retarded people working as upper management.
No, I'm not exaggerating.
If this is the person who was in charge, IBM is so screwed. It will be fun watching them fail, as I have had to live with IBM's incompetence for years.
Post as AC for my job's sake.
The organizations that still use mainframes are up-time fanatics with business models that suffer when a system is unavailable for a few minutes. As a result, they're so conservative that if they were running the country we'd still be under British rule. As long as mainframes work, they'll keep using them rather than risk changing to a different system.
Note: I'm an IBM employee, but this is my personal opinion, not IBM's. Technically speaking, corporations don't have opinions, except maybe "more money good, less money bad".
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Oh boy!
IBM is one of the largest, if not the largest, outsourcing services footprint. Having the new CEO coming from that background and rising internally to boot.. It goes to show how serious IBM is in that segment of that market.
HP absorbed EDS (or EDS allowed themselves to be swallowed) with IBM in their target cross-hair. HP is very clear on this! Those were the days of Mark Hurd.
I'm not saying Mark Hurd is a great guy, well.. not from employees point of view. They were miserable under him! EDS acquisition was approved by the Board and executed by Mark Hurd's team. Then the schmuck had to go and chase a skirt indiscreetly. An expired skirt on top of that! Can't you go for a young thing and impress all of us with your virility?
Mark Hurd's replacement in form of Leo Apotheker was not exactly inspiring.Which was it? WebOS? Software offerings? IT Outsourcing? Couldn't make up your mind?
In less than a year, now we have one-trick-pony Meg Whitman. Wonders whether we'll see two-trick-pony? Dare we hope for more than two?
EDS acquisition gave HP a clout in the services market segment. IBM's their target. Somehow they lost their focus and IBM strengthening their position - that's where Ginni Rometty comes in.
Now two women in control of two of the largest IT Services company gonna face off. It's like WWE's Trish Stratus vs Chyna.
Hmm..
You only needed to know that she led the Sales division. IBM always gave a lot of credit and power to its sales force, and its CEOs are usually those who held her position.
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She was rewarded because she was the director of the Sales division. It's really common for IBM to grant the CEO badge to whoever led Sales. If an extraterrestrial entity had been in her position, it would have been elected instead.
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I don't consider myself a feminist by any means, but I imagine it's a bit frustrating that a discussion of a male CEO rarely ever involves talking about their looks, yet it's one of the primary topics when discussing female CEO's.
But I will not be satisfied until we have a retarded trans-gendered, blind, schizophrenic as the head of a major corp. It is the only way to show the world that we value diversity. Also why do the retarded, blind, schizophrenics who are trans-gendered not have a figgin month. I mean blacks have a month. Women have a month. 'Asian americans and pacific islanders all have a month. We need to have a month just dedicated to the immense contributions that retarded, trans-gendered, blind, schizophrenics have contributed to society. By giving 'minorities' a month we are letting them know that they are just as important as Jewish, or white people.
I have worked with Ms. Rometty in the past and think she will be a great CEO for our company.
Former IBMer Bob Moffat, who was head of the Systems & Technology Group, was being groomed for the top job. But he got himself involved in an insider trading ring. Not for personal profit, but some careless chit-chat at a dinner party about Sun's finances, which IBM was considering to buy at the time.
So he got canned, and rightly so. If you are smart enough for the top job, you'd better be smart enough to watch what you say. Ginni will be subject to all sorts of scrutiny by the press in he coming months. IBM has probably already checked to see what she has under her fingernails.
Schroedinger's Brexit: The UK is both in and out of the EU at the same time!
Was that the reason for increased IBM training programs this year about specifically *not* talking about anything that might lead to insider trading?
RIP IBM...