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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... operating le- verage to produce the projected returns . Second , the operating returns from the to- bacco business were under pressure as a re- sult of a price war started by Philip Morris soon after the RJR Nabisco buy out . Philip ...
... operating le- verage to produce the projected returns . Second , the operating returns from the to- bacco business were under pressure as a re- sult of a price war started by Philip Morris soon after the RJR Nabisco buy out . Philip ...
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... operating software to run on its hardware . However , when the PC came along , IBM's lack of real commitment to that market resulted in the company's asking Microsoft to provide the operating system for the first IBM Personal Computer ...
... operating software to run on its hardware . However , when the PC came along , IBM's lack of real commitment to that market resulted in the company's asking Microsoft to provide the operating system for the first IBM Personal Computer ...
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... Operations Committee Sam Palmisano has been named Chief Operating Officer of the company . As such , I look to him to manage day - to - day opera- tions and ensure that we are meeting our short- to intermediate - term targets . As we ...
... Operations Committee Sam Palmisano has been named Chief Operating Officer of the company . As such , I look to him to manage day - to - day opera- tions and ensure that we are meeting our short- to intermediate - term targets . As we ...
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Foreword | 9 |
Introduction | 13 |
GRABBING HOLD | 21 |
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