Evolving from one of the strongest tech companies to a struggling business does not happen overnight. This is usually a slow and painful process resulting from failure to adapt to fast-evolving industry trends and poor strategic decisions.

In hindsight, International Business Machines (IBM) has been too late to recognize the need to evolve and use the proceeds from its highly profitable and declining legacy services to finance new business lines in the cloud space.

On the contrary, as IBM's profitability has been slowly melting away, the company has also been focused on appeasing shareholders with consistent dividend payments increases.

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