Title: Case # 15 The Fall of IBM and Case #16 IBM in 2009 Objective To be the world’s leading mainframe and software Service Company that offers its customers professional innovative services that deliver value by providing them with state of the art solutions that leverage IBM’s industry and business process industries. Problems During the mainframe system era‚ IBM’s competitors began selling cheaper and high performing IBM compatible central processing units that posed a threat
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1890-1938: The early years IBM was incorporated in the state of New York on June 15‚ 1911 as the Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company. But its origins can be traced back to 1890‚ during the height of the Industrial Revolution‚ when the United States was experiencing waves of immigration. The U.S. Census Bureau knew its traditional methods of counting would not be adequate for measuring the population‚ so it sponsored a contest to find a more efficient means of tabulating census data. The
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The Evolving Role of the CTO Introduction This case study will identify and address the evolving role of the Chief Technology Officer (CTO) over the past several years. This research paper will be organized under the following headings: main ideas/points stated clearly and logically‚ main ideas/points supported by examples‚ implications for management‚ suitable recommendations to issues identified and a conclusion. The term terms of this research paper which should be defined
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The Wisdom of My Crowd: Motivation and Audience in Enterprise Social Tagging Jennifer Thom-Santelli Cornell University‚ HCI Group 301 College Avenue Ithaca‚ NY USA 14850 +1 607 255 7826 Michael J. Muller IBM Research One Rogers Street Cambridge‚ MA USA 02142 +1 617 693 4235 jt17@cornell.edu michael_muller@us.ibm.com ABSTRACT Social tagging systems allow users to share resources categorized according to community-generated tags. These systems serve to organize personal information
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shortest amount of time. 2 3 10 18 26 33 37 Letter from the Editor Bob Kane Get Started with the Eclipse Platform Chris Aniszczyk and David Gallardo A Whirlwind Tour of Eclipse Europa Chris Aniszczyk Installing and Using Eclipse-based IBM Rational Products Khawar Z. Ahmed An Introduction to Eclipse for Visual Studio Users Genady Beryozkin Taking a Lifecycle Approach to Software Quality Testing and Management Rikki Kirzner Rational Application Developer for WebSphere Outshines
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The culture values of Thomas Watson which made IBM corp. adopt were “THINK” and “Professionalism” in order to inspire and motivate staff‚ work hard and adhere to high ethical standards which were defining attributes for American professionalism. “Job security” was also a main value of IBM Corp. offering lifetime employment guarantees for its employees in order to show loyalty and motivate them in offering good services. These values not only made IBM one of the most stable and profitable company
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established companies‚ like IBM‚ find it so difficult to build successful and sustainable new businesses? Evaluate IBM’s approach to leading mature‚ high growth‚ and emerging business opportunities. What are the organization design and leadership models required to manage each type of business? How should a company like IBM (or AT & T‚ for example) manage the innovation process? What challenges did Sam Palmisano face as he assumed control of IBM in March 2002? Can a company like IBM (or AT & T) be organized
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the accelerating media industry‚ discovering relevant business insights within the chaos of available information can lead to substantial competitive advantage". 2. Explain why it might be useful to have detailed Web site metrics like those IBM provides. It is helpful to have detailed Web site metrics because it allows the company to see customer behaviors and in turn be able to make business decisions based on the data. Collecting data‚ connecting the data together and leveraging it. That
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industry at that period and was extremely successful in the market. 2. From 1970s to 1980s‚ IBM kept on introducing a series of IT innovations including hard disk‚ floppy disk and the IBM PC in the early 1980s. These products fit the customer needs perfectly at that period and soon dominated the market. The factors led to IBM’s problems during the late 1980s including: 1. The wrong strategies made by IBM against changes in the needs of the customer. At that time‚ the customers increased the need
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Evolving Workplace Relations Introduction There has been a great challenge faced by business organization today: a shift in employment relationship. Today employees are savvy‚ confident‚ upbeat‚ open minded‚ creative and independent and therefore tend to be more challenging to manage. There is a demand for greater work/life balance‚ workforce flexibility and good management of workforce diversity. Definition ‘Globalisation and the changing workforce have produced two contrasting changes
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