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Consultants reading some rosier runes
• Analysis by Sarah Underwood
For the past 18 months or so, consultants’ reading material has been a wide selection of market forecasts, an anthology of disappointing financial reports and a not infrequent scan of newspaper horoscopes in the hope of brighter days ahead. It is too early to throw these publications on the fire, but there is slightly more encouraging reading coming off the press.
IBM has reported third-quarter results showing net profit up 38% at $1.8 billion, on revenues rising 9% to $21.5 billion. Even as the giant continues to trim the ‘wrong’ staff, it suggests it will need 10,000 new employees next year. These ‘right’ staff will be in the key skill areas of high-value services, middleware technologies, Linux and open hardware and software.
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