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Re:IBM to cut thousands of jobs as coronavirus plays out by gumby on Friday May 22, 2020 @12:16PM (#23273686)
The difference: when GM cuts a person and still ships a car their margin goes up. When IBM cuts a person from a project their revenue falls.

Having a template or cookie cutter helps because you can reduce execution risk (which can also help sales) and also assign a more junior person, at the same rate, to the later projects, which does goose profits.

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Re:IBM to cut thousands of jobs as coronavirus plays out by KineticLensman on Friday May 22, 2020 @04:10PM (#23276378)
> because you can reduce execution risk (which can also help sales)

Yes. This was exactly the case in the example I mentioned in my earlier comment. The specific aspiration was that once we had successfully solved the problem for one customer team, that team would act as our internal reference for the next customer team.

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