Who Says Elephants Can't Dance: Inside IBM's Historic TurnaroundThorndike Press, 2003 - 527 páginas A New York Times BestsellerIn 1990, IBM had its most profitable year ever. By 1993, the company was on its way to extinction, a victim of its lumbering size, an insular corporate culture, and the PC era it had helped invent. Then Lou Gerstner was brought in. Now he offers a blow-by-blow account of IBM's competitive and cultural transformation -- the first-hand story of an extraordinary turnaround. |
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... Application Software For most of its modern history , IBM made and sold hundreds of business applications , for ... applications for important customers , yet we were accomplishing little more than losing our shirts . Jerry York ...
... Application Software For most of its modern history , IBM made and sold hundreds of business applications , for ... applications for important customers , yet we were accomplishing little more than losing our shirts . Jerry York ...
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... application first , then looked to that software provider to tell them which hardware to run it on . As long as these ... applications for distribution and manufacturing customers set a stretch goal to increase sales by $ 50 million ...
... application first , then looked to that software provider to tell them which hardware to run it on . As long as these ... applications for distribution and manufacturing customers set a stretch goal to increase sales by $ 50 million ...
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... application software developers . What we said to them was : " We are going to leave this market to you ; we are going to be ... applications with our services . group . " And rather than just having lunch with them and saying " Let's be ...
... application software developers . What we said to them was : " We are going to leave this market to you ; we are going to be ... applications with our services . group . " And rather than just having lunch with them and saying " Let's be ...
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Foreword | 9 |
Introduction | 13 |
GRABBING HOLD | 21 |
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