Apple Inc. – IBM – Motorola Strategic Alliance also known as AIM… Content: 1. Strategic Alliance 2. AIM Strategic Alliance 3. Taligent and Kaleida Labs. - Joint Venture Companies 4. Accomplishments 5. Product : PowerPC development 6. AIM’s End 7. Glossary 1. Strategic Alliance A Strategic Alliance is a formal relationship between two or more parties to pursue a set of goals or to meet a critical business need while remaining independent organizations. Partners may
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“IBM owned and leased more than 90 percent of all tabulating machines in the United States at the time” (Wikipedia). This company became a virtual monopoly‚ because of its patents and because the firm chose to rent its equipment rather than sell it. Thomas Watson was elected president of the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) in 1937. “World Peace Through World Trade” became the slogan of both the ICC and IBM” (Wikipedia). IBM was founded and had major plants that IBM provided land
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COMPUTER REVOLUTION Personal Computers The personal computer revolution was a phenomenon of immense importance in the 1980s. What the average American commonly refers to as a PC‚ or personal computer‚ did not even exist before the 1970s. Mainframe computers had been the norm‚ and they were primarily relegated to business and scientific use. With the dawn of the personal computer all Americans were allowed potential access to computers. As competition and modernization increased‚ issues of cost
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Bill Gates William Henry Gates the Third or also known as Bill Gates is the co-founder of the huge Microsoft Corporation. This billionaire was born in Seattle on the 28th of October 1955 and grew up there with his two sisters‚ Kristi and Libby. His father‚ William Henry Gates Senior was a prominent Seattle lawyer‚ and his mother‚ Mary Maxwell Gates was a schoolteacher at the University of Washington regent and chairwoman of United Way International. His great-grandfather was a state legislator
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from lack of self-confidence and depression‚ he even cried when his father told him he was to inherit International Business Machine Company or IBM. No one could have guessed that not only would “Terrible Tommy” take over IBM‚ but‚ he would come to surpass his father and bring the world into the computer age. Under the management of Thomas Watson Jr. IBM was able to put its label on 70% of the worlds computers and as a result dominated the industry. However before he achieved his success‚ Watson
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Thomas J. Watson‚ Jr IBM Entrepreneurship and Small Business Development Context 1. Introduction 2. Literature Review 3. A review of relevant material related to the selected entrepreneur. 4. Analysis 5. Conclusion 6. References 1. Introduction Nowadays‚ businesses are facing development problems. Problems are included: the competitors‚ management system‚ leadership and so on. For entrepreneurs‚ the leadership is an essential leadership quality. It is not only an
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Whether you know it or not you depend on computers for almost every thing you do in modern day life. From the second you get up in the morning to the second you go to sleep computer are tied into what you do and use in some way. It is tied in to you life in the most obvious and obscure ways. Take for example you wake up in the morning usually to a digital alarm clock. You start you car it uses computers the second you turn the key (General Motors is the largest buyers of computer components in the
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acquired IBM PC division in December 2004 for $1.75 Billion. The acquisition was a marriage of 2 great companies with complementary strengths and the operations effectiveness was expected to benefit both companies. IBM at that stage wanted to shed its PC business and concentrate on the service industry while Lenovo wanted to expand its market presence. Growth of the PC market: IBM introduced their first PCs in 1970s and since then IBM has been a major first to market player in the industry. IBM relied
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Table of Contents * Introduction * Objective * Purpose of Study? * Performance Management Defenition * Company’s Introduction * Cameron Limited * FMC Technologies Limited * Business Case * Short Term Incentive Plan (STIP) System in Cameron * Risk Based Management Compensation (RBMC) System in FMC Technologies * Core Issues in both systems * Reccomendations for improvment * Theorists identified
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A Brief History of Personal Computers The electronic computer is a relatively modern invention; the first fully operable computer was developed about 50 years ago‚ at the end of World War II‚ by a team at the University of Pennsylvania ’s Moore School of Engineering. This team was headed by John Mauchly and J. Presper Eckert‚ who named the new machine ENIAC‚ for Electronic Numerical Integrator and Calculator. ENIAC was hardly a personal computer‚ occupying a large room and weighing about 33 tons
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