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IBM's Twenty-First Century Corporate Performance
Date Published: July 19, 2021
​Date Modified: June 30, 2024
 IBM's 21st Century Corporate Performance
Comparing Business Results of Two Sixteen-Year, Transitionary Periods
Not one of IBM’s stakeholders has profited from IBM’s twenty-first-century management of the corporation’s stock price. IBM's shareholder-first and ‑foremost strategy is a dismal failure and the direction must change.
IBM’s Board of Directors must act to avoid the looming failure of an iconic company that, at one time, represented all that was great about the American form of capitalism
Business Results in Some Key Performance Indicators (KPIs)
What is happening at IBM is a deterioration of its overall brand.

​This is happening at the macro-level, which is to say it is a problem caused over the last two decades by the corner office, their direct reports, and their financial policies.
The result has been a two-decade long drop in sales productivity.
In 2018, a new measurement took front and center: IFI Claims Patent Services “Ultimate Owner Ranking.” Although this is still not a perfect measurement for patents, it is more effective in measuring a corporation's patent ownership, efficiency, and effectiveness.
​By this new measurement, IBM is a very, very distant second place to Samsung.
For first-quarter of 2021, IBM announced, "Revenue of $17.7 billion, up 1 percent (down 2 percent adjusting for currency). For the second quarter of 2021, IBM announced, "Revenue of $18.7 billion, up 3 percent (flat adjusting for divested businesses and currency). ​
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