and IBM How do you manage thousands of contracts and service engineers, and ensure that work quality, efficiency and value are maintained? Zoomlion Heavy Industry Science & Technology Development Co Ltd deployed a combination of SAP® ERP, SAP CRM, SAP mobile solutions with Global Positioning System (GPS) sensors and analytic modeling solutions to help plan, predict and control its projects and labor, worldwide. Designed with assistance from IBM® Global Business Services® and supported by IBM technology
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came into existence. Today the company known as IBM, is on the Public Limited Company that is listed on the New York Stock Exchange. IBM has proved opportunity to many by proving about 400,000 people with worldwide opportunity in sales. This employment has helped the company to generate at least 100 billion dollars in sales. IBM has many subsidiaries such as ADSTAR, Lotus Software, ILOG, Saudi Business Machines, and Science Research Associates. IBM has been offering new businesses with opportunities
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Section 2 A) Explain the importance of organizational culture to IBM and suggest an example of where both share values and taken for granted assumptions contribute to the continued success of IBM. B) Using a recognized theoretical model, identify and justify the organizational culture of IBM and assess how this shapes current management approaches. C) To reflect the changing environments within which IBM operates, suggest a possible alternative organizational culture for the company and assess
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IBM- International Business Machines Corporation Background International Business Machines Corporation, or well-known IBM, is an American multinational technology and consulting corporation, with headquarters in Armonk, New York, 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. In 1924, CTR adopted the name “International Business
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maintaining the loyalty of existing customers, specifically the ThinkPad, while sustaining innovation at the same time. Moreover, the much thought out first innovation in the form of the X41 Tablet series from Lenovo after the acquisition, led to IBM being given all the credit owing to the less popularity of Lenovo. The association of Lenovo with China and the Chinese Government was a potential downside for it to compete in price competitive products with the fear of being recognized as the company
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Hiring Without Limits At IBM, disabled workers contribute millions to the bottom line, and provide a crucial point of view for a company that makes and sells technology for people with disabilities. "We consider diversity strategic to our organization," says Jim Sinocchi, director of diversity communications or IBM, who is a paraplegic. "We don't hire people who are disabled just because it's a nice thing to do. We do it because it's the right thing to do from a business standpoint." By Joe Mullich
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competitors, industry trends, cultural and social factors, government activities, laws etc. It is all about the environment in which business operates. In this study, we have considered two different companies from different industries. Those are: IBM and GM Motors. These companies have been accessed in different economic environments on the basis
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Alternative Strategies For many years IBM has been a leader within the technology industry by innovating and continuing to advance within the market. As a major leader in the technology industry it is important to understand the current strategies used along with future strategies that may assist IMB in future growth and success. According to Watkins (2007), “A business strategy is a set of guiding principles that, when communicated and adopted in the organization, generates a desired pattern of
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PureMVC, Struts, SWING, EJB, JSP/Servlet, Web Services, RESTFUL Web Services, J2EE. * Web application server: IBM Websphere, Tomcat, JBoss. * Operation System: Linux (Ubuntu,Suse, Redhat, CentOS), Windows, MacOS. * Versioning tools: Maven, Subversion, CVS, Microsoft SourceSafe. * DBMS: PostgreSQL, Oracle, MSSQL Server, DB2, MySQL. * Methodology: SCRUM Agile. * IBM FileNet: Installation, application development. * IDE: Eclipse, IntelliJ, MS Visual Studio 2010. * Sharepoint:
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Lenovo 3000 J Series desktops Lenovo 3000 C, N, and V Series laptops LCD and CRT monitors ThinkVision projectors and monitors An agreement allows Lenovo to sell IBM-branded desktops and laptops until 2010. Ownership As of October 31, 2008, 50.4% of Lenovo is owned by public shareholders, 42.3% by Legend Holdings Limited, 6.6% by Texas Pacific Group (TPG Capital)
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