Financial Statement Analysis of IBM Financial Statement Analysis of IBM I. Company Facts IBM – International Business Machines Corporation The home office of IBM is located in Armonk‚ Town of North Castle‚ New York‚ United States. IBM was founded in 1911 as the Computing Tabulating Recording Company (CTR) through a merger of three companies: the Tabulating Machine Company‚ the International Time Recording Company‚ and the Computing Scale Company. CTR adopted the name International Business
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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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Innovation‚ Entrepreneurship & CSR Summary Chapter 1: The Innovation Imperative Innovation matters – the logic is simple‚ if we don’t change what we offer the world and how we create and deliver them‚ we risk being overtaken by others who do. At the limit it is about survival – and history is very clear on this point; survival is not compulsory. Innovation is strongly associated with growth. New business is created by new ideas‚ by the process of creating competitive advantage in what a
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thought into reality. Innovation means applying those thoughts in to work. Innovations don’t always have to be completely new ideas. The term innovation rather means the implementation of something new and results in a noticeable improvement for the user. There are different forms of corporate innovations: Product innovation‚ Process innovation‚ Market innovation‚ Structural innovation and Cultural innovation. (Disselkamp‚ 2005). A commonly used classification for innovations is the product/service
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IBM transforms organizational learning into organizational learning by realizing that in order to promote organizational learning; you have to first achieve individual learning and collectible knowledge. I will show how they accomplish that. IBM knows that individuals need constant training in their jobs and they ensure that each individual are given every opportunity to excel through training. Training is extremely effective and important for learning “how to do your job”‚ and everyone should
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Teenagers do not know how to manage money According to a recent investigation and study‚ 87% of American teenagers do not know how to manage money. In Shanghai‚ China‚ 92.8% of middle schooler also have poor financial management skills; they rarely consider saving money in the bank or do any investment. So‚ what caused this phenomenon? In my opinion‚ it should be: teenagers was never taught how to manage their money. It’s also because they do not know how difficult it is to earn money
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While IBM is still providing support for SNA‚ one of the primary pieces of hardware‚ the 3745/3746 communications controller has been withdrawn from marketing by the IBM Corporation. However‚ there are an estimated 20‚000 of these controllers installed and IBM continues to provide hardware maintenance service and micro code features to support users. A robust market of smaller companies continues to provide the 3745/3746‚ features‚ parts and service. VTAM is also supported by IBM‚ as is the IBM Network
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and Disruptive Innovation Dean Robb‚ Ph.D. A renewable entrepreneurial enterprise must juggle‚ balance and integrate two phenomena‚ each requiring radically different values‚ mindsets‚ leadership and management approaches. The first is "sustaining innovations‚" which are basically improvements to a currently-existing business framework‚ and which milk the current business model and value proposition for all they are worth. The second is "disruptive innovations‚" which are innovations that threaten
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Stimulating Innovation Stimulating Innovation In this paper the author will discuss the techniques for stimulating innovation. A discussion will then take place that will describe how the organization that the author works for stimulates innovation. An evaluation of the effectiveness of the techniques employed will ensue and ways improve the process of stimulating innovation will be discussed. There are many ways to stimulate innovation in the workplace. In order to detail the process of stimulating
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Case Studies 3M1: Rethinking Innovation Background Large (70K employees‚ $15bn sales)‚ global operations (200 countries)‚ multi-product (50K range)‚ multi-market business. Innovation ‘Claim to Fame’ This company has been around for just over 100 years and during that period has established a clear reputation as a major innovator. Their technical competence has been built up by a long-term commitment to R&D on which they currently spend around $1bn p.a.; this has yielded them a regular position
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