Intel has been on the decline for years now. They have tried to innovate new product lines and have mostly failed in almost everything they have tried to do. They are invisible in the mobile space, and soon even Apple won’t be using them in their products. They failed completely in IOT (Edison), still don’t have a 1:1 competitor with NVidia, and are going to miss out on the self-driving car revolution. They don’t really have any kind of Cloud or software business. Basically they’ve been riding on x86 and that gravy train is showing it’s age. They have recently been doing some cool things with drones, but I’m not sure that’s going to last and I fully expect it to fail eventually.

Operational style management is important when you have a product that needs to be tuned and improved incrementally. But that same style of management is ill-suited and emotionally bankrupt for creative types who are the source and inspiration of the product vision in the first place and it shows in Intel’s floundering roadmap.

One size fits all problem management and single minded solutions do not work. A process is a tool but not a replacement for empathy nor thinking.