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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... drives . This meant that if customers outgrew a computer or wanted the advan- tages of some new technology , they had to discard all of their hardware and software in- vestments and start over . In today's parlance , they had to " rip ...
... drives . This meant that if customers outgrew a computer or wanted the advan- tages of some new technology , they had to discard all of their hardware and software in- vestments and start over . In today's parlance , they had to " rip ...
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... driving demand for chips and , to our great delight , chips that would have funda- mentally different characteristics from the lookalike processors that powered lookalike personal computers . - In this new model , value would shift to ...
... driving demand for chips and , to our great delight , chips that would have funda- mentally different characteristics from the lookalike processors that powered lookalike personal computers . - In this new model , value would shift to ...
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... drive transforma- tion through e - business , and they will con- tinue making those investments for the fore- seeable future . For investors as well as customers , the lesson was : no shortcuts . I think for a lot of people , the “ e ...
... drive transforma- tion through e - business , and they will con- tinue making those investments for the fore- seeable future . For investors as well as customers , the lesson was : no shortcuts . I think for a lot of people , the “ e ...
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Foreword | 9 |
Introduction | 13 |
GRABBING HOLD | 21 |
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