JOHNWFIELD@aol.com laments about IBM:
>....From other things I know about IBM and the Watsons, I think a lot of great
>insights went into the creation of that wonderful company before it
>eventually fell into the hands of educated bureaucrats from business
>schools who would not be above reinventing their ideas and describing them
>as new.
I am reminded of the decline of their suggestion program after TJW Jr
left> I submitted a "suggestion" to their program that the product
announcement letters produced for internal use only be made available in
their source text format so we could cut and paste a customer consumable
version in "real time".
The offical reply was that it was not 'possible' to do so. That was my
last official suggestion even though I was there for lots more years.
After that, any change that I wanted, I did myself. BTW I respected the
Watsons. ...Keith
--Keith Cowan <72212.51@CompuServe.COM>
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