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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... middleware existed to do exactly that . To provide this kind of integration , how- ever , middleware was going to have to work on all of the major vendors ' computer sys- tems that would be linked together over vast new networks . In ...
... middleware existed to do exactly that . To provide this kind of integration , how- ever , middleware was going to have to work on all of the major vendors ' computer sys- tems that would be linked together over vast new networks . In ...
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... & Transaction Servers Collaboration & Messaging Database Services Applications Software Middleware Software Operating System Memory Networking Displays Systems Processor Storage I've already described the results of our de- cision to.
... & Transaction Servers Collaboration & Messaging Database Services Applications Software Middleware Software Operating System Memory Networking Displays Systems Processor Storage I've already described the results of our de- cision to.
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... middleware would be the integrating glue of networked applications . We had to step up the Internet enablement of these products and develop some new ones . We'd have to build a significant new ser- vices business around what came to be ...
... middleware would be the integrating glue of networked applications . We had to step up the Internet enablement of these products and develop some new ones . We'd have to build a significant new ser- vices business around what came to be ...
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Foreword | 9 |
Introduction | 13 |
GRABBING HOLD | 21 |
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