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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... major computer tech- nology introduced since 1980. . . . Tradi- tional big computers are not going to disappear overnight , but they are old tech- nology , and the realm in which they hold sway is steadily shrinking . The brontosaurus ...
... major computer tech- nology introduced since 1980. . . . Tradi- tional big computers are not going to disappear overnight , but they are old tech- nology , and the realm in which they hold sway is steadily shrinking . The brontosaurus ...
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... major IBM competitors if that , in fact , was the best solution for the customer . Of course , we'd have to maintain and service . these products as well . Moreover , Dennie believed the services unit would have to be separated from the ...
... major IBM competitors if that , in fact , was the best solution for the customer . Of course , we'd have to maintain and service . these products as well . Moreover , Dennie believed the services unit would have to be separated from the ...
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... major challenge : estab- lishing this powerful new business , and at the same time integrating this unit into IBM so that it was viewed , not as a threat , but as a great new ally of our traditional product units . I knew this was going ...
... major challenge : estab- lishing this powerful new business , and at the same time integrating this unit into IBM so that it was viewed , not as a threat , but as a great new ally of our traditional product units . I knew this was going ...
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Foreword | 9 |
Introduction | 13 |
GRABBING HOLD | 21 |
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