Antecedentes históricos: Uno de los primeros dispositivos mecánicos fue el ábaco. Este dispositivo es sencillo, esta echo de cuentas ensartadas en varillas, que se encuentran montadas en un marco rectangular. En 1642, el matemático francés Blaise Pascal (1623-1662) construyo la primera sumadora mecánica, la Pascalina. La Pascalina funcionaba a base de complicados mecanismos de engranajes y ruedas. Solo funcionaba para realizar sumas y restas. En 1671, Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz (1646-1716)
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Assessment Activity 1. In your opinion, what decision option does IBM have in the case situation? • The main decision option on the case was to create a new business model that integrate all plants together and manage the same information. This will allow better management of the supply chain across all of its plants and quicker response in changes in the business environment. 2. What criteria are important to making this decision? • The first criteria that they need
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QUESTION 1 WHY DO LARGE COMPANIES LIKE IBM FIND IT SO DIFFICULT TO CREATE NEW BUSINESSES? -Large companies generally tend to have been around longer, and have a stronger more mature presence in the business/market that they’re in. This causes strong roots and cultural implications on and within the systems which, as the case states, can also be identified as impediments. -New business can come across foreign and a bit of a distraction to well established companies. The “if it’s not broken, don’t
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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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originally designed as a scientific and mathematical tool, to aid in performing intense and precise calculations. However, from the large, sixty square foot ENIAC (Electronical Numerical Integrator and Calculator) of 1946, to the three square foot IBM PC of today, their uses have mutated and expanded far
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Outline SERVERS 1. The 1st vendor is IBM which uses power servers that runs both Red Hat and SUSE Linux server operating systems, offering a scalable alternative for your open source application. a. Red Hat has big business support and its easy to find certified technicians, administrators and engineers who know their way around Red Hat. Its also supported on a wide variety of hardware whether your running x86 servers on racks, blade servers, IBM power systems, or mainframes then Red Hat
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International Business Machines Corp., IBM -8.28% the moment came this week. After reporting profits that at least met Wall Street's expectations for 31 straight quarters dating back through the financial crisis to early 2005, IBM stumbled late Thursday. It posted a 1% dip in profit and a 5% drop in revenue that rattled investors and sent the stock down more than 8% Friday. More IBM Shares Post Biggest Drop in 8 Years Heard on the Street: IBM Finds itself Singing the Growth Blues 04/18/2013
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in recent years by information technology, which might itself be cited as a key enabler of the creation of high-bandwidth international links. 4. Utilization of diverse locations for team and project meetings: I recently attended a meeting for IBM stock analysts held in Bangalore. As CEO Sam Palmisano explained it to me, this was primarily about signaling commitment to and helping integrate an operation that had grown from less than ten thousand people to close to fifty
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Office Automation Systems Office Automation Systems Office Automation Systems are systems that try to improve the productivity of employees who need to process data and information. Perhaps the best example is the wide range of software systems that exist to improve the productivity of employees working in an office (e.g., Microsoft Office XP) or systems that allow employees to work from home or although on the move. OAS considered also as computer-based information system that
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The International Business Machines Corporation (IBM) is an American multinational technology and consulting corporation. IBM builds and sells computer hardware and software, and it provides consulting services. US News & World Report considers IBM’s $300 compensation for employees engaged in “exercising, eating right, not smoking, and filling out a health risk questionnaire” a sterling example of a positive, effective corporate wellness program. They conducted their own health surveys across
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