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Chuck Robbins appears to repudiate vision of John Chambers

"Mr. Chambers had long admired IBM, and sought many times to build up a large consulting-based business similar to IBM's. 'I don't want to end up there,' Mr. Robbins said of the IBM model."

Tallahassee, Florida:   Wed, 10/7/15 - 3:33pm    View comments
 

Chuck RobbinsJohn ChambersEarlier this week the New York Times published the following "bombshell article" (at least in my opinion):
 

Cisco's New C.E.O. Envisions Big Changes
 

Chuck Robbins appears ready to "nuke" the entire business model painstakingly developed over the past 20-years by his predecessor, John Chambers.
 

For example, Robbins said he was ready to:

  • Move away from selling individual switches and routers.
  • Move to revenue models closer to those of cloud-computing companies like Salesforce.com, with lots of revenue based on subscriptions.
  • Plan for big investments in analytic tools to help automate both large-scale data centers and billions of objects tied to the Internet.
But this part of the article especially caught my eye:

"Mr. Chambers had long admired IBM, and sought many times to build up a large consulting-based business similar to IBM's. 'I don't want to end up there,' Mr. Robbins said of the IBM model."
 


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