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IBM Employees Sending Mixed Signals in New Vault Employee SurveysNEW YORK --(Business Wire)-- March 9, 2005 -- IBM (NYSE: IBM) employees are sending mixed signals about the company's future, New York research firm Vault has found in new employee surveys on the hardware giant. The survey results, published today, can be accessed on Vault.com. Vault's employee surveys give investors and jobseekers insight into the company's business operations. Says a sales manager, "Stodgy, slow moving, lacking innovation in sales and marketing Not entrepreneurial. Very metrics-focused. Good at client management, some products are innovative (but) too much management, too much measuring and not enough doing." For survey results, visit: http://www.vault.com/go/to.jsp?place=33077 A former consultant adds: "Highly bureaucratic. Pockets of brilliance and pockets of dead wood. Slow moving, decisions take forever to be made. Limits the growth of resources, however executives are acquired through acquisitions. (IBM) will remain stable as being so diversified; slowness in one part of business is covered by growth in another. As a consulting organization, IBM will always be low-end in spite of the PWC merger. PWC was in a mess when IBM acquired it, partners apparently short-changed the consultants. Expect lot of consulting resources that are sharp will leave or have already left." A Colorado-based manager writes, "IBM enjoys a strong, long-term growth potential. Even though distributed service growth has declined in recent years, it continues to sign new, long-term contracts. Many competitors cannot compete because they do not offer a diverse, end-to-end technical solution. They are either too small, narrow in scope or inclined to be marketing-driven." To see more excerpts from the surveys, click here: http://www.vault.com/go/to.jsp?place=33077 To fill out a survey on IBM (or another public company), click here: http://www.vault.com/go/to.jsp?place=31317 Neither Vault nor its employee surveys are endorsed by or affiliated with IBM. ABOUT VAULT Inc: Vault, Inc. is the leading media company focused on careers. Vault's primary offering is its web site, www.vault.com, which features "insider" workplace information on over 5,000 companies, expert career articles on more than 70 industries, and an industry-focused job board. Offline, Vault offers the Vault Career Library, a series of more than 100 nationally distributed career-focused print books. |
