1. What characteristics of an effective work group does the Speed Team appear to have? I. Common goal of Team Task for the Speed team have influences all the IBM employees and it do lead IBM breakthrough projects completed in a short time. If you need a wide range of cooperation to complete the task, organization will benefit from their common goals. II. Teamwork The Speed Team works like a team instead of group. According to the four Midwest colleges and Iowa State University, 1996, that
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Diversification IBM a Fortune 500 company celebrated its 100th birthday this past June. IBM employs over 400,000 employees and is considered to be a $100 billion dollar or more giant in e-business global marketing technology. With the inception of the computer, IBM’s core business was mainframe computers, which almost bought the company to its knees in bankruptcy. IBM looked at the PC as just a gadget and with any gadget over time would fade into oblivion. IBM would find out the hard
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signify the ‘spirit of innovation’ that is central to the company’s mission.1 Mr. Liu is the principal architect behind his company’s 2004 acquisition of IBM’s PC Division (PCD), and hence is commonly referred to in the press as the ‘Man who acquired IBM PC’ (Shenzen Daily, 2004). Even though the size of the acquisition was relatively small in the broader context of global mergers and acquisitions, the deal had ‘tremendous symbolic’ importance to China, because it signified that that country had finally
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IBM Global Business Services IBM Institute for Business Value Attaining sustainable growth through corporate social responsibility Corporate Social Responsibility IBM Institute for Business Value IBM Global Business Services, through the IBM Institute for Business Value, develops fact-based strategic insights for senior executives around critical public and private sector issues. This executive brief is based on an in-depth study by the Institute’s research team. It is part of an ongoing
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Palmisano and IBM In 2002 Sam Palmisano became chairman and CE O of IBM, succeeding the legendary Lou E Gerstner. Gerstner, coming from RJR Nabisco and before that American Express, was sought out by the IBM board to replace John Akers as CEO when the c ompany was facing the greatest crisis in its s history; Gerstner took over IBM’s helm in 1994. IBM w as on the brink of bankruptcy, with many r shareholders pressuring management to capture near-ter m value by divesting pieces of IBM. At the time
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IBM Global Center for Smarter Analytics Fundamentals of Business Analytics Case Study IBM Global Center for Smarter Analytics ________________________________________________________________________________ Licensed Materials - Property of IBM © Copyright IBM Corporation 2013 Published May 2013 IBM, the IBM logo and ibm.com are trademarks of International Business Machines Corp., registered in many jurisdictions worldwide. Other product and service names might be trademarks of IBM
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_______________________ Introduction During the 1970s and ‘80s, IBM was one of the most successful companies in the world. The company had experienced strong growth in both revenue and profits and had a virtual stranglehold on the market for mainframe computers. In fact the company was often referred to as “Big Blue,” a nickname derived from its massive blue mainframe computers. For four consecutive years in the 1980s, IBM held the top spot in Fortune magazine’s annual list of the most admired
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IBM (International Business Machines Corporation) has been a fixture in American and the international field of information handling since the 1880’s. The original company name was Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company (C-T-R). More recently, IBM employees determined that their values include, “dedication to every client’s success”. (Palmisano, 2011). “Also espoused in the values statement is trust and personal responsibility in all relationships”. (Palmisano, 2011). IBM has taken the
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HP ProCurve Case Discussion 1. Evolution of NB (networking business) Period | Industry Trends & Competition | NB’s Focus & Strategy | Attention from HP Top Management | Internal Relationships | External Relationships | Resource Allocation | NB Performance | 1. Emergence1970s | Fermentation, very few companies (3com) | Interconnect with disparate computers, emulating IBM systems and networking HP computers among themselves. | Very little | Management didn’t give it much attention
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IBM is a multinational corporation that started its activities in 1911. But its origins can be traced back to 1890, during the height of the Industrial Revolution. It was first known as the Computing-Recording Company, then in 1924, it took the name of International Business Machines. Nowadays, this multinational company is known as the « Big Blue ». IBM main activity is to find solutions to its wide range of clients using advanced information technology. Its clients are individual users, specialised
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