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Re:Intel ousts its chief engineer, shakes up technical group... by TomVDB on Tuesday July 28, 2020 @12:56AM (#23972407)
> Successful reorgs are done in response to growth, changing markets, and new lines of business.

> This is either a desperation or punitive reorg.

One could very well characterize the reorganization of IBM in the mid nineties as a desperation reorg and a punitive one (100K employees laid off.)

It was also a very successful one.

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Re:Intel ousts its chief engineer, shakes up technical group... by toohotatopic on Tuesday July 28, 2020 @01:45AM (#23972671)
Was it? It could have been IBM who invented the smartphone or hardware as a service.
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Re:Intel ousts its chief engineer, shakes up technical group... by pm90 on Tuesday July 28, 2020 @02:23AM (#23972870)
They survived.
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Re:Intel ousts its chief engineer, shakes up technical group... by toohotatopic on Tuesday July 28, 2020 @03:00AM (#23973074)
Surviving cannot be the ambition of IBM.
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Re:Intel ousts its chief engineer, shakes up technical group... by pm90 on Tuesday July 28, 2020 @01:09PM (#23978072)
Clearly you haven't worked at IBM.
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