applications and why with the addition of Rational tools built on top of Eclipse‚ you can build the best quality enterprise applications in the shortest amount of time. 2 3 10 18 26 33 37 Letter from the Editor Bob Kane Get Started with the Eclipse Platform Chris Aniszczyk and David Gallardo A Whirlwind Tour of Eclipse Europa Chris Aniszczyk Installing and Using Eclipse-based IBM Rational Products Khawar Z. Ahmed An Introduction to Eclipse for Visual Studio Users Genady Beryozkin
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Introduction IBM is one of the most successful technology and consulting companies in the world. In 2012‚ its brand name is in second place in international brand equity rankings‚ just behind Coca Cola. With its 433‚362 employees it is operating in 170 countries and able to generate profit of $15.85 billion per year. The company itself has been founded in 1911 trough a merger of three technology companies. In 1924‚ the company’s name was changed to International Business Machines‚ abbreviated to IBM. Initially
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1. IBM as a product centric organization before its near failure was a bloated organization with 400 000 employees heavily invested in low margin‚ transactional‚ commodity-based businesses. As technology progressed‚ the demand for IBM’s inventions began to diminish. The entire organizational structure was also growing redundant‚ making it more challenging to face off competition from smaller and less diversified competitors. As Louis Gerstner‚ Jr embarked on turning the entire company around‚ there
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transformation from a “product-centric” to a “service-centric” organisation required investments in a number of key areas. The CEO of IBM at that time was Louis Gerstner Jr. He placed importance on focus‚ speed‚ customers‚ teamwork and execution. Gerstner totally revamped the company’s whole operating procedures‚ from top management to bottom‚ by standardising global core processes‚ centralising the company to leverage its strengths as provider of solutions to customers‚ fixing the core businesses
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of Lenovo and IBM By Sharona Peng Achieving Successful Cross‐Cultural and Management Integration: The Experience of Lenovo and IBM. Sharona Peng A thesis submitted to Auckland University of Technology in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Business (MBus) 2008 Faculty of Business Primary Supervisor: Peter Enderwick 1 / 78 Achieving Successful Cross-Cultural and Management Integration: The Experience of Lenovo and IBM By Sharona Peng
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Why do firms become multinational enterprises? There are multiple ways to define what is meant by the term “multinational enterprise” (MNE)‚ most of which can be reduced to a short list of criteria summarised effectively by Franklin Root (1994). He defined an MNE as a parent company that i) engages in foreign production through its affiliates located in more than one country; ii) exercises direct control over the policies of its affiliates; and iii) implements transnational business strategies in
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1890-1938: The early years IBM was incorporated in the state of New York on June 15‚ 1911 as the Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company. But its origins can be traced back to 1890‚ during the height of the Industrial Revolution‚ when the United States was experiencing waves of immigration. The U.S. Census Bureau knew its traditional methods of counting would not be adequate for measuring the population‚ so it sponsored a contest to find a more efficient means of tabulating census data. The
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Q. 01. What does service mean to IBM? Answer: Thomas Watson IBM’s founder. `IBM means to service’. IBM defines itself as a service company and the corporate philosophy articulated by Watson was not just to be a good service company‚ but to be the best service company in the world. IBM chairman stated‚ "We have changed our technology‚ changed our organization‚ changed our marketing and manufacturing techniques many times and we accept to go on changing. Service such as project management‚ application
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Involvement globally At the time of the Spanish American War the United States went from relative isolation to increased global involvement because of economic expansion‚ and rebellion in the western hemisphere. The consequences of this increased global involvement on American society was that America exited the Spanish-American war as an Imperialist country and America began to abuse its position as an emerging world power. American policy makers were forced to consider a greater global involvement
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IBM STRUCTURE OVERVIEW IBM’s domestic division‚ which was led by tom Watson jnr. was responsible for research and development and for financing the operations of the entire global company. By 1950 not only was IBM domestic designing and manufacturing a large number of different models of computer‚ it was also designing and manufacturing many of the component and peripheral parts used in the computers such as disk drivers ‚transistors‚ printers and file storage and servers. Many of these products
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