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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rectly from the papers he gave me : “ We have allowed the info industry to endorse the paradigm that the mainframe is expensive , complex , not responsive , and workstation solutions are cheap , simple to operate , and responsive to ...
rectly from the papers he gave me : “ We have allowed the info industry to endorse the paradigm that the mainframe is expensive , complex , not responsive , and workstation solutions are cheap , simple to operate , and responsive to ...
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saving the IBM mainframe , and his strong technical underpinnings , combined with his uncanny ability to translate technical complexities into common language , were a great source of reassurance to me in the days ahead .
saving the IBM mainframe , and his strong technical underpinnings , combined with his uncanny ability to translate technical complexities into common language , were a great source of reassurance to me in the days ahead .
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because the company was so dependent on the mainframe , and mainframe sales were declining . Gross profit margin was sinking like a stone because we had to reduce mainframe prices in order to compete . The only way to stabilize the ship ...
because the company was so dependent on the mainframe , and mainframe sales were declining . Gross profit margin was sinking like a stone because we had to reduce mainframe prices in order to compete . The only way to stabilize the ship ...
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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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