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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Running Head: MICROSOFT AND IBM FINANCIAL PERFORMANCE Microsoft and IBM Financial Performance Team E Managerial Finance I FIN/475 University of Phoenix Rene Niese April 7‚ 2008 Microsoft and IBM Financial Performance Introduction Team E has been charge with the task of preparing an analysis to evaluate Microsoft and IBM’s financial performance. This will be done by using trends‚ financial ratio analysis‚ and the firms’ most recent statements of cash flow. Team E will evaluate
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2010 Analysis of Life-Cycle of IBM OCTOBER 23‚ 2010 IN PARTIAL FULFILMENT OF THE REQUIREMENTS OF THE COURSE "ORGANIZATIONAL BEHAVIOUR - II" OF MBA (FULL TIME) SUBMITTED TO: Prof. Harismita Trivedi and Prof. Sari Mattila Submitted By: Group No. 43 Saurabh Shrivastava – 101143 Rohit Adukia – 101243 Roshni Kumar – 101343 Table of Contents 1. CURRENT SCENARIO 1 2. HISTORY OF IBM 2 2.1 The Origin of IBM 2 2.2 IBM’s Early Growth 4 2.3 IBM post World War II and rise of
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Female CEO Biography Virginia (Ginni) Rometty‚ IBM CEO Abstract IBM recently promoted Virginia (Ginni) Rometty to its top leadership position. Ms. Rometty will become the first white female chief executive officer in the company’s 100-year history and every move she makes will be carefully watched. Rometty has truly earned this position and has an impressive history with IBM to show it. There are challenges ahead but Ms Rometty’s education‚ experience and determination will suit
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There are three main reasons for IBM to come up with “Think”: the first one is that the ThinkPad’s success has created high awareness in the customers’ mind‚ and then without absolutely giving up the old popular brand‚ IBM’s managers abstract a similar but new brand—“Think”‚ which contains the managers’ expectation to continue the success of ThinkPad; the second one is that the original founder of IBM—T. J. Watson—has made “Think” the motto since he established IBM. Therefore‚ deepening its own brand
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Lyanne V. CRUZIN‚ Richelle Ann DIA‚ Minette SACE‚ Carla I. Introduction IBM was founded in 1888 as Herman Hollerith and the Tabulating Machine. It was incorporated in 1911 as “Computing-Tabulating Recording Co.” The company later changed its name to International Business Machines (IBM) Corporation in 1924 after becoming a Fortune 500 Company. Also known as “Big Blue‚” IBM has won several accolades. It is known to have more patents than any other American technology company
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For this week ’s paper I have chosen to do a comparison between IBM ’s DB2 database management system (DBMS) product and Oracle. Realistically‚ making such a comparison is akin to discussing religion with friends. Each person will have their own biases based on their own experiences. Looking for an unbiased opinion is much like looking for the Holy Grail‚ every bit as speculative and subjective with the results jaundiced by the outlook of the reporter (Lim‚ 2002). A decision between DB2 and Oracle
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Martelli Shiyi Lu 18 Oct 2013 The company I chose is IBM. IBM ’s organizational structure is typical of multi-product or multi-business companies. In this article I will through three ways to analyze that company. There is company’s background‚ employment‚ issued facing the company. Background “Since its inception‚ IBM has been a company that defined itself not by particular products‚ technologies or leaders‚ but by persistent values.” (IBM‚ 2012) [1]. Throughout IBM’s 101 years development history:
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1. The SWOT analysis for IBM’s Smarter Planet initiative is as follows: Strengths: 1. IBM has high quality and efficient employees who satisfy all the customers’ needs and want. 2. IBM is a well-known brand name in the world. Weaknesses: 1. IBM seems to focus only on big companies whereas there are a large number of small and medium companies around the world. 2. They are exploring new products in complex markets which might make changes difficult. Opportunities: 1. Offering new technologies
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IBM and their workforce diversity program. 1. IBM is a pioneer in diversity programs. How does it diversity its employees (the criteria). Discuss those (the criteria) in brief. Answer: IBM considered by many to be the leading organization in the field which manages a strong workforce diversity. IBM diversified their workforce in these criteria’s: A. Gender B. Physical Ability C. Age D. Ethnicity Discussion: A. IBM diversified their workforce by advancing women’s which represents ”Gender”
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