IBM ANALYSIS PURPOSE In the following paper I am going to analyze the case about “IBM” and how the company changed its structure in order to develop innovative products and manage successfully its new business as well. In particular IBM moved from a bureaucratic structure with an inflexible hierarchy to a divisional structure that allowed the company to pursue emerging business opportunities and at the same time continue to develop businesses were mature and well established‚ and business were
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In IBM: * Early 1990’s: decentralized geographic and functional departments * Mid-late 1990’s: Distribution and logistics functions centralized into a global organization with world-wide responsibility * Early 2000’s: merger of Customer Fulfillment‚ Procurement‚ Manufacturing‚ and Global Logistics/Distribution functions into a new global Integrated Supply Chain function * Result: cost savings of $5.6B in 2002 and $7B in 2003 * A Case study on IBM * IBM developed
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the slicker and responsive rivals such as Microsoft‚ Dell and Oracle‚ IBM had to push the awake call alert to reposition itself as one of the significant player in the industry. This all been done through the ingenious and new paradigm of advertising series on which could reinstate the big blue stigma. The transformation process that could penetrate the existing market with the new products (refer to tangible and intangible of IBM outcome) known as the product penetration strategy can be best served
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“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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Helen Corne Going the Distance Life is full of hard knocks. I was raised in a broken down apartment‚ by my single mother. She tried her best to support my sister and me. There were five apartments in each complex. There must have been at least ten trashy buildings pushed together by government funding. Each apartment had up to ten people hiding away in it. There were enough people to create our own city. The walls were so thin that I could smell the fried foods‚ and hear the neighbors yelling
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Case Study: The Evolving Strategy at IBM IBM was a strong company in the 1970’s but as time went by‚ the company culture failed to keep up with the time‚ focusing on consensus decision making. Strong Culture throughout the 1970’s allowed them to be successful‚ add values in consensus decision making and allows everyone to add input. Eventually they were able to comeback. On the other hand‚ they failed to keep with the times; company has history of slow confrontation of new technological approaches
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Executive Summary IBM and Accenture are both huge companies and uses five factor DuPont analysis to achieve a return on equity. IBM has a higher return on equity than Accenture‚ and therefore the management are more efficient in generating shareholder value per dollar invested. However both the companies are performing better than the industry average. IBM does also take lesser number of days to convert cash on hand compared to Accenture and industry average. But‚ Accenture is taking more days
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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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