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
Earlier 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."
