Competitive Position of IT Company: International Business Machines (IBM) Case Study I. Introduction: The Company that has been chosen for this case study is International Business Machines abbreviated IBM. This company was founded by Herman Hollerith in 1896 as the Tabulating Machine Company. It was later incorporated as the Computing Tabulating and Recording Corporation on June 16 1911. The Company was listed in the New York Stock Exchange in 1916 and one year later the Canadian and South
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Environmental6 3.0 iNDUSTRY ENVIRONMENT ANALYSIS7 3.1 Threat of Entry7 3.2 Threat from Substitutes8 3.3 Power of Buyers9 3.4 Power of Suppliers10 3.5 Degree of Competitive Rivalry11 4.0 Conclusion12 5.0 Reference13 Executive Summary: In 1995‚ IBM (International Business Machine Corporation) created the Software Group to pull all of IBM’s infrastructure‚ middleware and operational software together from dispersed units of. IBM’s Software Group is now a self-sustaining software business‚ with
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References: 1. Gupta C.B (2010)‚ HRM- Publisher (Sultan Chand & Sons) ‚ Changing Nature of work‚ pg no. 38.3 2 3. http://www.ibm.com/ibm/in/en/ on Jun 29‚ 2012 at 04.38 p.m. 4. http://www-07.ibm.com/in/research/‚ 2012 at 09.37 p.m. 5. http://www-07.ibm.com/in/research/laboverview.html on July 22‚ 2012 at 06. 20 p.m. 6. http://www-07.ibm.com/in/careers/diversity.html on August 10‚
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IBM - SWOT Analysis Strengths Since IBM was founded in 1896‚ it has gone through a very long experience in the technological industry with a very strong brand name. The company has a wide range of products to appeal and attract different customer needs and to maintain its competitive position. IBM in 2009 was considered as one of the largest and most profitable computer services company in the world with a market capital of about $119 billion and 319‚000 employees speeded in 150 countries around
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Current Price (04/19/13) Target Price (IBM-NYSE) NEUTRAL Outperform 10/08/2009 $190.00 $200.00 IBM reported a dismal first quarter missing the Zacks Consensus Estimate on both lines. Revenue growth was particularly weak‚ due to execution problem and lackluster demand. We believe that sluggish IT spending remains the major headwind in the near term. Additionally‚ increasing competition in the hardware segment is another significant concern going forward. IBM continues to expand its Power systems
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Relative Size in the Industry IBM is part of the technology sectors in the diversified computer systems industry (IBM: Summary for International Business Machines- Yahoo! Finance). The market cap is 254 billion with IBM making up 218.6 billion. IBM is the largest company relative to the diversified computer systems industry. In a less specific industry of computers IBM only trails Microsoft Corporation by 12 billion dollars ("International Business Machines Corp."). Because of IBM’s large size
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History: IBM was founded on 1914 by Thomas Watson. The driving force behind the success of the company‚ however‚ is his son‚ Thomas Watson‚ Jr.‚ who understood the potential of computers and embraced new technologies. Under him‚ the System/360 was developed and became highly successful. Despite IBM’s steady approach toward its one hundred-year anniversary‚ the company continues to lead the market in terms of innovation. Corporate Information: IBM is one of the world largest companies‚ delivering
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IBM was able to reduce its procurement costs by sending purchase orders‚ receiving invoices and paying suppliers by using the World Wide Web as its transaction processing network. Much of the savings came from eliminating intermediaries—IBM was able to eliminate intermediaries because the Internet allowed IBM to work with multiple tiers of suppliers simultaneously. 2. The speed and ease of using the Internet allowed IBM to form partnerships with small suppliers even though many of these
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SPSS Statistics is a software package used for statistical analysis. It is now officially named "IBM SPSS Statistics". Companion products in the same family are used for survey authoring and deployment (IBM SPSS Data Collection)‚ data mining (IBM SPSS Modeler)‚ text analytics‚ and collaboration and deployment (batch and automated scoring services). Contents [hide] 1 Statistics program 2 Versions 2.1 Ownership history 3 Add-ons 4 Release history 5 See also 6 Notes 7 References 8 External
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Lotus and IBM Knowledge Management Strategy An Overview September 2000 A Lotus Development Corporation White Paper Copyright 2000 Lotus Development Corporation. All rights reserved. Not for reproduction or other use without express written consent of Lotus Development Corporation Table of Contents The Dynamics of Knowledge Management People‚ Places & Things The Raven Development Project Implementation Scenario Conclusion White Paper Description This overview describes the Lotus
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