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Smart People, Big Company Hassle

Enterprise Architect
Current Employee
Has worked at IBM for 20 years
June 4, 2015
New York, New York
5.0
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Pros

The people, including the managers, all want to develop a good personal brand and most understand that they must be honest and diligent to do that. Proprietary technologies such as Watson give us an edge. New partnerships (Apple, Twitter, etc.) show potential.

Cons

Even the brightest and most diligent people can be bogged down by the inevitable complexity of a large company.

Advice to Management

Be careful about groups that overlap. Internal competition can be wasteful, confusing, and discouraging. IBMers are at their best when they work together to serve customers and be better than the external competition.

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