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The Ibm Century
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Author : Jeffrey R. Yost
language : en
Publisher: IEEE Computer Society Press
Release Date : 2011
The Ibm Century written by Jeffrey R. Yost and has been published by IEEE Computer Society Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011 with Calculators categories.
More than a century ago Herman Hollerith pioneered punch card tabulation technology. In 1911 his enterprise became the centerpiece of a new corporation (renamed in the 1920s), International Business Machines (IBM). Over the past century IBM has transformed how we record, calculate, and process information -- forever changing business, science, engineering, government, and leisure. Far more than any other firm, IBM created the IT revolution. This unique volume brings together fascinating memoirs of key IBM engineers and managers of the past 100 years -- from Walter Jones, who started as a sales engineer in 1912 and rose through the ranks for three decades, to Cuthbert Hurd, James Birkenstock, Bob Evans, John Backus, Watts Humphrey, and others who led IBM to supremacy in digital computing and software. It details punch card tabulation, IBM's entrance into computing, and the transformative IBM hardware (IBM 650, IBM 1401, System/360) and software (FORTRAN, SABRE, IMS) that changed the world. The IBM Century contains an IBM timeline, the most comprehensive IBM annotated bibliography to date, and a new introductory essay that characterizes IBM's 100-year history and contextualizes each of the memoirs.
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Author : James W. Cortada
language : en
Publisher: MIT Press
Release Date : 2023-08-01
Ibm written by James W. Cortada and has been published by MIT Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-08-01 with Computers categories.
A history of one of the most influential American companies of the last century. For decades, IBM shaped the way the world did business. IBM products were in every large organization, and IBM corporate culture established a management style that was imitated by companies around the globe. It was “Big Blue, ” an icon. And yet over the years, IBM has gone through both failure and success, surviving flatlining revenue and forced reinvention. The company almost went out of business in the early 1990s, then came back strong with new business strategies and an emphasis on artificial intelligence. In this authoritative, monumental history, James Cortada tells the story of one of the most influential American companies of the last century. Cortada, a historian who worked at IBM for many years, describes IBM's technology breakthroughs, including the development of the punch card (used for automatic tabulation in the 1890 census), the calculation and printing of the first Social Security checks in the 1930s, the introduction of the PC to a mass audience in the 1980s, and the company's shift in focus from hardware to software. He discusses IBM's business culture and its orientation toward employees and customers; its global expansion; regulatory and legal issues, including antitrust litigation; and the track records of its CEOs. The secret to IBM's unequalled longevity in the information technology market, Cortada shows, is its capacity to adapt to changing circumstances and technologies.
Making The World Work Better
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Author : Kevin Maney
language : en
Publisher: Pearson Education
Release Date : 2011-06-10
Making The World Work Better written by Kevin Maney and has been published by Pearson Education this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-06-10 with Business & Economics categories.
Thomas J Watson Sr’s motto for IBM was THINK, and for more than a century, that one little word worked overtime. In Making the World Work Better: The Ideas That Shaped a Century and a Company, journalists Kevin Maney, Steve Hamm, and Jeffrey M. O’Brien mark the Centennial of IBM’s founding by examining how IBM has distinctly contributed to the evolution of technology and the modern corporation over the past 100 years. The authors offer a fresh analysis through interviews of many key figures, chronicling the Nobel Prize-winning work of the company’s research laboratories and uncovering rich archival material, including hundreds of vintage photographs and drawings. The book recounts the company’s missteps, as well as its successes. It captures moments of high drama – from the bet-the-business gamble on the legendary System/360 in the 1960s to the turnaround from the company’s near-death experience in the early 1990s. The authors have shaped a narrative of discoveries, struggles, individual insights and lasting impact on technology, business and society. Taken together, their essays reveal a distinctive mindset and organizational culture, animated by a deeply held commitment to the hard work of progress. IBM engineers and scientists invented many of the building blocks of modern information technology, including the memory chip, the disk drive, the scanning tunneling microscope (essential to nanotechnology) and even new fields of mathematics. IBM brought the punch-card tabulator, the mainframe and the personal computer into the mainstream of business and modern life. IBM was the first large American company to pay all employees salaries rather than hourly wages, an early champion of hiring women and minorities and a pioneer of new approaches to doing business--with its model of the globally integrated enterprise. And it has had a lasting impact on the course of society from enabling the US Social Security System, to the space program, to airline reservations, modern banking and retail, to many of the ways our world today works. The lessons for all businesses – indeed, all institutions – are powerful: To survive and succeed over a long period, you have to anticipate change and to be willing and able to continually transform. But while change happens, progress is deliberate. IBM – deliberately led by a pioneering culture and grounded in a set of core ideas – came into being, grew, thrived, nearly died, transformed itself... and is now charting a new path forward for its second century toward a perhaps surprising future on a planetary scale.
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Author : Kevin Maney
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2011
Making The World Work Better written by Kevin Maney and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011 with Computer industry categories.
Building Ibm
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Author : Emerson W. Pugh
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1995
Building Ibm written by Emerson W. Pugh and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1995 with Business & Economics categories.
No company of the twentieth century achieved greater success and engendered more admiration, respect, envy, fear, and hatred than IBM. Building IBM tells the story of that company--how it was formed, how it grew, and how it shaped and dominated the information processing industry. Emerson Pugh presents substantial new material about the company in the period before 1945 as well as a new interpretation of the postwar era.Granted unrestricted access to IBM's archival records and with no constraints on the way he chose to treat the information they contained, Pugh dispels many widely held myths about IBM and its leaders and provides new insights on the origins and development of the computer industry.Pugh begins the story with Herman Hollerith's invention of punched-card machines used for tabulating the U.S. Census of 1890, showing how Hollerith's inventions and the business he established provided the primary basis for IBM. He tells why Hollerith merged his company in 1911 with two other companies to create the Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company, which changed its name in 1924 to International Business Machines. Thomas J. Watson, who was hired in 1914 to manage the merged companies, exhibited remarkable technological insight and leadership--in addition to his widely heralded salesmanship--to build Hollerith's business into a virtual monopoly of the rapidly growing punched-card equipment business. The fascinating inside story of the transfer of authority from the senior Watson to his older son, Thomas J. Watson Jr., and the company's rapid domination of the computer industry occupy the latter half of the book. In two final chapters, Pugh examines conditions and events of the 1970s and 1980s and identifies the underlying causes of the severe probems IBM experienced in the 1990s.
Think Again
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Author : Peter Greulich
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2020-10-19
Think Again written by Peter Greulich and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-10-19 with categories.
THINK Again! covers more than a century of IBM history. It studies the corporation's chief executive officers, employees, shareholders, customers, and supportive societies, and their unique interactions which determined---and continue to determine---the company's successes and failures. This new edition - The Rometty Edition - updates all information through the end of 2019 and adds a chapter on the performance of Virginia (Ginni) M. Rometty, IBM's first female chief executive officer. THINK Again! is about IBM, but it IS NOT a technical book: "mainframe" is the most technical term used. THINK Again! discusses IBM's finances, but it IS NOT a financial book: "goodwill" is the most complex financial term used only to highlight the company's twentieth-century creation of "good" goodwill, and its twenty-first-century over-production of "bad" goodwill. It is a book about one of America's greatest corporations: a business that deciphered the seemingly, impenetrable human equation to build an enthusiastic, engaged and passionate workforce that produced ever-higher revenue and profit productivity for eighty-five years--and then misplaced that institutional knowledge. THINK Again! is about leaders and the risks they have taken. It is about its traditional founder who sacrificed to deliver promised benefits to his employees. It is about a corporation that contributed to the survival of democracy during one of democracy's darkest hours--World War II. It is about the twentieth century's greatest investment gamble--ever--the mainframe. It is also about a corporation that in the twenty-first century has lost its institutional memory: it no longer understands the essence of the human business equation---that an enthusiastic, engaged and passionate employee is a productive employee. This failure has caused a disastrous, twenty-year work slowdown unlike anything in IBM's history: the story of a natural human response to poor human resource practices. IBM has had its great, good, and bad moments; and, this century has seen some of its ugliest. But there is still hope. To find prosperity in its second century, IBM will need a new leader who will execute a business-first strategy that returns value to all the corporation's stakeholders. The last chapter describes the necessary executive character.
Think Again Ibm Can Maximize Shareholder Value
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Author : Peter E. Greulich
language : en
Publisher: Mbi Concepts Corporation
Release Date : 2017-08-20
Think Again Ibm Can Maximize Shareholder Value written by Peter E. Greulich and has been published by Mbi Concepts Corporation this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-08-20 with Business & Economics categories.
THINK Again is about IBM, its leaders, its employees, its shareholders, its customers, its supportive societies, and one-hundred years of their unique interactions. IBM has had its great, good, and bad moments; and, in this century, some of its ugliest. But there is still hope. THINK Again is about IBM, but it IS NOT a technical book; "mainframe" is the most technical term used. THINK Again discusses IBM's finances, but it IS NOT a financial book; "goodwill" is the most complex financial term used to discuss the company's twentieth-century creation of good goodwill, and its twenty-first-century over-production of bad goodwill. It IS a book about one of America's greatest corporations: a business that deciphered the seemingly, impenetrable human equation to build an enthusiastic, engaged and passionate workforce that produced ever-higher revenue and profit productivity for eighty-five years. THINK Again is about IBM's leaders and the risks they have taken. It is about a chief executive officer who personally sacrificed to deliver promised benefits to his employees. It is about a corporation that contributed to the survival of democracy during one of democracy's darkest hours-World War II. It is about the twentieth century's greatest investment gamble that delivered the mainframe. It is also about a corporation that in the twenty-first century has lost its institutional memory: it no longer understands the essence of the human business equation-that an enthusiastic, engaged and passionate employee is a productive employee. This failure has caused a disastrous, seventeen-year work slowdown unlike anything in IBM's history; not because of a labor union but from a natural human response to poor human resource practices. To find prosperity in its second century, IBM will need a new leader who will execute a business-first strategy that returns value to all the corporation's stakeholders.
Inside Ibm
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Author : James W. Cortada
language : en
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Release Date : 2023-10-31
Inside Ibm written by James W. Cortada and has been published by Columbia University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-10-31 with Business & Economics categories.
IBM was the world’s leading provider of information technologies for much of the twentieth century. What made it so successful for such a long time, and what lessons can this iconic corporation teach present-day enterprises? James W. Cortada—a business historian who worked at IBM for many years—pinpoints the crucial role of IBM’s corporate culture. He provides an inside look at how this culture emerged and evolved over the course of nearly a century, bringing together the perspectives of employees, executives, and customers around the world. Through a series of case studies, Inside IBM explores the practices that built and reinforced organizational culture, including training of managers, employee benefits, company rituals, and the role of humor. It also considers the importance of material culture, such as coffee mugs and lapel pins. Cortada argues that IBM’s corporate culture aligned with its business imperatives for most of its history, allowing it to operate with a variety of stakeholders in mind and not simply prioritize stockholders. He identifies key lessons that managers can learn from IBM’s experience and apply in their own organizations today. This engaging and deeply researched book holds many insights for business historians, executives and managers concerned with stakeholder relations, professionals interested in corporate culture, and IBMers.
Building Ibm
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Author : Emerson W. Pugh
language : en
Publisher: MIT Press
Release Date : 1995
Building Ibm written by Emerson W. Pugh and has been published by MIT Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1995 with Business & Economics categories.
No company of the twentieth century achieved greater success and engendered more admiration, respect, envy, fear, and hatred than IBM. Building IBM tells the story of that company, how it was formed, how it grew, and how it shaped and dominated the information processing industry. Emerson Pugh presents substantial new material about the company in the period before 1945 as well as a new interpretation of the postwar era. Granted unrestricted access to IBM's archival records and with no constraints on the way he chose to treat the information they contained, Pugh dispels many widely held myths about IBM and its leaders and provides new insights on the origins and development of the computer industry. Pugh begins the story with Herman Hollerith's invention of punched-card machines used for tabulating the U.S. Census of 1890, showing how Hollerith's inventions and the business he established provided the primary basis for IBM. He tells why Hollerith merged his company in 1911 with two other companies to create the Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company, which changed its name in 1924 to International Business Machines. Thomas J. Watson, who was hired in 1914 to manage the merged companies, exhibited remarkable technological insight and leadership, in addition to his widely heralded salesmanship, to build Hollerith's business into a virtual monopoly of the rapidly growing punched-card equipment business. The fascinating inside story of the transfer of authority from the senior Watson to his older son, Thomas J. Watson Jr., and the company's rapid domination of the computer industry occupy the latter half of the book. In two final chapters, Pugh examines conditions and events of the 1970s and 1980s and identifies the underlying causes of the severe probems IBM experienced in the 1990s. - Publisher.
Ibm San Jose
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Author : David W. Kean
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1977
Ibm San Jose written by David W. Kean and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1977 with Computer industry categories.