Who Says Elephants Can't Dance: Inside IBM's Historic TurnaroundA 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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The customer was increasingly interested in delivering computing power to individual employees ( the term was “ distributed computing , " in contrast the mainframe's “ centralized computing " ) . to IBM was slow ...
The customer was increasingly interested in delivering computing power to individual employees ( the term was “ distributed computing , " in contrast the mainframe's “ centralized computing " ) . to IBM was slow ...
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chored the business computing infrastructure . The very name of the new computing model they envisioned — “ client / server ” computing revealed their worldview and bias . The “ client ” referred not to a person , but to the PC .
chored the business computing infrastructure . The very name of the new computing model they envisioned — “ client / server ” computing revealed their worldview and bias . The “ client ” referred not to a person , but to the PC .
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that the next day's news reports were not ringing with anything resembling IBM's bold foray into the uncharted world of networked computing . So be it . By the fall of 1995 my confidence in our strategy had increased to the point where ...
that the next day's news reports were not ringing with anything resembling IBM's bold foray into the uncharted world of networked computing . So be it . By the fall of 1995 my confidence in our strategy had increased to the point where ...
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Foreword | 9 |
Introduction | 13 |
PART I GRABBING HOLD | 21 |
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| Título | Who Says Elephants Can't Dance: Inside IBM's Historic Turnaround Core Series Thorndike Core Thorndike Large Print Nonfiction Thorndike Large Print Thorndike Press Large Print Core Series |
| Autor | Louis V. Gerstner |
| Edición | en letra grande |
| Editor | Thorndike Press, 2003 |
| ISBN | 0786252553, 9780786252558 |
| N.º de páginas | 527 páginas |
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