IBM's 2020 through 2024 Revenue Performance

IBM 2020 to 2024 Revenue Performance

A worthless car is one that can’t move passengers or cargo between points "A" and "B" safely and reliably. [Link to "The Importance of Sales Productivity" on this website] Corporations, within a capitalist economy, lose value as they fail in their main purpose: moving products of competitively higher value off the showroom floor into a customer’s hands while generating enough profits to ensure a self-sustaining stakeholder ecosystem—enough money to invest equitably between customers, employees, shareholders, and their supportive societies.
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​In this respect the following chart shows that the 21st Century IBM has been failing to deliver products of higher value to its customers. 

​Selling continuously-improving, higher-quality products at a profit is, ultimately, the responsibility of the corner office—over this period of time, Arvind Krishna. These charts reflect what should be his two top priorities and responsibilities. Long-term, sustainable and consistently improving revenue and profits should be the chief executive’s top performance metrics. Special emphasis should be placed on the revenue metrics as this metric is extremely hard to financially engineer, while profit metrics—as shown in many of these charts, can be financially engineered or manipulated through tactics such as workload rebalancing, pension plan changes, and divestitures/acquisitions.

Select the link below to read more about IBM's performance from 2020 to 2024 including revenue, profit, revenue growth, profit growth, employee revenue productivity and employee profit productivity.

Arvind Krishna's and IBM's Overall Performance: 2020 Through 2024