“Leadership‚ Change and Growth: CIO as a driver of business at IBM” Dr Shaobo Ji Sohaib Amjad Sn#100616776 Abstract: The case study analyses the evolving role of CIO at IBM as a driver of growth and change within the organization. It makes an attempt to first describe 2 key challenges facing a CIO working for a “smart” and integrated enterprise and ends by making recommendations which can serve as a blue print not only for IBM but for any organization looking to use IT as a primary source
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1. IBM as a product centric organization before its near failure was a bloated organization with 400 000 employees heavily invested in low margin‚ transactional‚ commodity-based businesses. As technology progressed‚ the demand for IBM’s inventions began to diminish. The entire organizational structure was also growing redundant‚ making it more challenging to face off competition from smaller and less diversified competitors. As Louis Gerstner‚ Jr embarked on turning the entire company around‚ there
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Mission Statement-Suitability for IBM The mission statement of IBM is suitable for the organization‚ and that not only because it sufficiently refers to the features a mission statement must have‚ but also because it expresses a spirit of success‚ teamwork and customer consideration‚ a spirit that only big companies can generate. Mission Statement-Strengths and weaknesses Though much important a mission stetement is‚ it can develop some strengths and weaknesses regarding mostly the customers
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TERM PAPER: IBM SUPERCOMPUTER‚ WATSON IBM Supercomputer‚ Watson Watson uses two thousand eight hundred and eighty processor cores to perform its calculations. This is made possible by the use of ninety IBM Power 750 Express servers which contain eight quad core processors. So each server contains thirty two processor cores and there are ninety servers to combine to make the two thousand eight hundred and eighty processor cores that make up Watson’s brain . So what
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IBM in the 21st Century: The Coming of Globally Integrated Enterprise (Case Study) By: Shareeki Smith Boston University "IBM in the 21st Century: The Coming of the Globally Integrated Enterprise‚" HBS case 9-308-105‚ October 7‚ 2009 Abstract In this Case Study‚ IBM illustrates a great example of taking a company to a global level by providing great leadership and making great decisions. IBM was able to notice their opportunity to provide their services outside the US and put together a
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1. IBM: A Systematic Financial Analysis. 1.1 Introduction In order to make informed investment decisions‚ potential investors should carefully analyze all available information about the company (or companies) that they are planning to add to their portfolios. One such way is by performing a systematic financial analysis for each of the companies in question (Giroux 2003). The results of this analysis can then be used to determine whether or not the company presents a sound investment
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CASE ANALYSIS: IBM IN 2009 Analysis Industry: Computer Services Industry Porter’s 5 Forces 1) Risk of entry by potential competitors The risk of entry by potential competitors is relatively low (+). This is due to the newly entrant competitors that need a large market capitalization‚ software materials‚ services and consulting; to gain consumer’s interests. If consumers are able to choose buying their products from a large company that are adequate in the computer hardware‚ services
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SUBMITTED BY: SWATI AGARWAL ROLL NO-01 PGDB-IB STRATEGY CASE STUDY: IBM Q1. Outline the relevant trends in IBM"s external environment which could have prompted its then CEO to consider long term changes in IBM’s business portfolio. Ans.) IBM’s CEO Samuel J. Palmisano‚ was considering a change in long term change in business portfolio in terms that instead of just using in-house resources for merely selling and servicing technology‚ they could help big conglomerates
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IBM 320 – Business Application Final Exam List the question Answer with 2 paragraphs‚ chart‚ paragraph‚ and company example Minimum 1.5 pages for each question Answer all 5 essays Part 1: power point on blackboard Part I: Essay (worth 50% of the grade) Essay #1: Why is the understanding of sales forecasting critical to the success of business? What method and/or tools (at least two) can one use to forecast sales? #1:Forcasting sales critical to business: setting up a budget for the
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1. Articulate the business environments and key issues the case is trying to address. IBM provides business and IT solutions to help clients become more efficient and competitive. They use 5 major lines of business; global business services‚ global technology service‚ system and technology‚ software‚ and global financing. IBM transformed the knowledge sharing approach so that the access to information is easier for their employees. In so doing quicker service for their clients. 2. Provide
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