This is like Deja Vu. They said the same thing about IBM last century (I was an employee at IBM yorktown for a couple years).
IBM was dying, the PC (clones mostly) won the day and was in offices everywhere. The plan was to split IBM up into lots of little companies.. They brought in a CEO (Gerstner) who basically said, don't split it up, being big is a benefit and lets leverage that. It worked, and the company started doing better.
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This is like Deja Vu. They said the same thing about IBM last century (I was an employee at IBM yorktown for a couple years). IBM was dying, the PC (clones mostly) won the day and was in offices everywhere. The plan was to split IBM up into lots of little companies.. They brought in a CEO (Gerstner) who basically said, don't split it up, being big is a benefit and lets leverage that. It worked, and the company started doing better.
oblig wiki page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_V._Gerstner,_Jr.
Your link doesn't work - HN doesn't make the last . part of it: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Gerstner
Thanks!