International Business Machines (IBM) was founded in 1888 as “Herman Hollerith and the Tabulating Machine Company”. It is an American multinational technology and consulting corporation. It manufactures and markets computer hardware and software. Thirty Six years after, the name of the company was changed to IBM Corporation. IBM was also known as the big blue. It ranked among the “Worldwide Top 20 Semiconductor Sales Leaders”. Some of the awards and recognition received by IBM are the following: 3 Noble
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por Sun. Para el otoño de 2001 el mercado accionarios tenía poca actividad, y los volúmenes de transacciones – lo mismo que el flujo efectivo de E*Trade – se derrumbaron estrepitosamente. La empresa decidió cambiar Linux ejecutándose en servidores IBM x355 basados en procesadores Intel de bajo costo para controlar los costos. Las pruebas preliminares que ejecutaron en Linux aplicaciones de autenticación, servicios de cotización, servicios de productos financieros y servicios de transacciones financieras
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Introduction: 4 1.1. Organization (IBM) brief: 4 1.2. Services provided by the organization: 5 2. Employee management in the organization: 5 2.1. Technologies invented and business: 5 2.2. Various collaborations: 7 2.3. Implementation of knowledge management strategy: 7 2.4. Post implementation analysis: 8 3. Potential application: 8 3.1. Communities of practices within the company: 9 3.2. Organizational influences: 10 3.3. Community evolution in IBM Global Services: 10 3.4. Patterns
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THE RISE OF IBM 1900-1970 To meet the needs of measuring population the US Census Bureau sponsored a contest to find the most efficient means of tabulating census data. The contest was won by German immigrant and Census Bureau statistician, Herman Hollerith. Hollerith formed the Punch Card Tabulating Machine Co. in 1896. In 1911 Hollerith’s company merged with Computing Scale Co. of America and International Time Recording Co. to form Computing-Tabulating-Recording Co. During the period between
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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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http://www-03.ibm.com/ibm/history/ibm100/us/en/icons/ UPC (1973): The UPC barcode system, an elegantly simple matrix of information that can be customized for almost any type of transaction and can yield as much data as needed. Pioneering Speech Recognition: At the Seattle World’s Fair in 1962, IBM showcased the world’s most advanced speech recognition system, the “Shoebox” The punch card tabulator: Herman Hollerith, a young technical whiz at the US Census Bureau, invented the first tabulating
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The Big Idea hbr.org Scott D. Anthony is the managing director of Innosight Asia-Pacific and the author of The Little Black Book of Innovation (Harvard Business Review Press, 2012). The New Corporate Garage Illustration: otto steininger Where today’s most innovative—and world-changing—thinking is taking place by Scott D. Anthony Quick: List the big companies that have launched paradigm-shifting innovations in recent decades. There’s Apple—and, well, Apple. The popular perception is that most
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9-409-106 MARCH 27, 2009 CHRISTOPHER MARQUIS ROSABETH MOSS KANTER IBM: The Corporate Service Corps In February of 2009, Kevin Thompson, program manager for the IBM Corporate Services Corps sat down with Stanley Litow, Vice President of Corporate Citizenship and Corporate Affairs, and Robin Willner, Vice President of Global Community Initiatives at IBM. They had recently received the results of an independent evaluation of the first 100 participants in IBM’s new employee leadership development
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more: http://www.ukessays.com/essays/business/business-environment-of-international-business-machines-corporation-business-essay.php#ixzz2zlzJOVvG Industry Overview and Principal Competitors Because IBM has a large diversified range of product and services, and is present in more than 170 Countries (IBM Form 10-K Annual 2010 Report, 2011) it ́s not easy to analyze the markets where it acts. Although, we can see some main competitors: Hewlett-Packard (HP) and Dell, each of these companies with a different
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financed commercial project ever”. The System/360, “transformed the industry”, along with IT innovations such as development of the FORTRAN, the hard disk, the floppy disk, IBM supermarket checkout station, and an early version of the automatic teller machine”. Mr. Watson’s vision and or innovation required acquiring talent by making IBM, “the best place to work”. The late 80’s and 90’s became riddled with problems as a result of a lost vision and increasing costs. IBM’s lost vision included not predicting
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