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IBM's Management
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IBM's Management
A discussion of the management failures in the Integrated Business Machines (IBM) company.
1,158 words (approx. 4.6 pages) |
3 sources |
MLA | 2007
Paper Summary:
The paper discusses how IBM was the computing ruler and the gold standard for corporations. The paper portrays how the company changed from a paragon of power, prestige and farsightedness. They were the leaders in technology and in bringing in women and minorities into a well-paid workforce and a corporate culture, which inspired lifelong loyalty. The paper examines the CEO Sam Palmisano's changes to the company and shows how time-honored principles of management were breached. The paper illustrates how rather than restoring the failing company into its former greatness, these new policies and developments extinguished the loyalty of long-time employees and forced them to resign.From the Paper:
"Palmisano claims that his objective was to restore the old core values of IBM in his attempt at regaining its leadership in the field of technology (Ante 2003). He sought that return to its traditional roots by flattening the organization, the lowering of the CEO and placing emphasis on teams. In retrieving IBM's DNA, he imagined it would elicit appropriate response in the form of a technology boom and restore it into the level of greatness it once enjoyed. At the center of his plan is e-business on demand, which by then, was already consuming a third of IBM's $5 billion research and development budget. The concept begins by helping customers standardize all their computing needs."Sample of Sources Used:
- Ante, Spencer. The New Blue Lou Gertsner Saved Big Blue. Business Week, March 17, 2003. Businessweek.com: the McGrawHill Companies, Inc. http://www.businessweek.com/magazine
- Business Week. Q & A: "We Have Reinvented Ourselves Many Times." Business Week Online: the McGrawHill Companies, 2003. http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/03_11/b3824011.htm
- IBM Employees Labor Union. Highlights. IBM Employees News and Links, 2006. http://www.ibmemployee.com
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IBM's Management (2012, January 15). Retrieved February 12, 2012, from http://www.academon.com/Term-Paper-IBM's-Management/93072
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"IBM's Management" 15 January 2012. Web. 12 Feb. 2012. <http://www.academon.com/Term-Paper-IBM's-Management/93072>
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