Brief History of IBM
IBM was first incorporated in New York under the name Computing-Tabulating-Recoding Company in 1911. Although the company’s history can be track back as early as 1890, which was when the U.S. were receiving waves of immigrants. This is when the punch card Tabulating machine was created to calculate census data. After joining forces with International Time Recording Company and Computing Scale Company of America, this created a company that manufactured and sold commercial scales and industrial time recorder, tabulators and punch cards. They operated in New York and later expanded to Washington, DC, Ohio, Michigan, and Toronto, Canada. In 1914, IBM was lead by Thomas J Watson, the president of the company; which under his leadership the company thrived and expanded its services and products. During Watson’s time of leadership the company
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With Apple and IBM implementing the strategies of value discipline and generic strategy they can begin to reach a new line of customers with new demands and broaden their scope. I believe that IBM as well as Apple is on its way to even greater success.
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Each man contributed significantly to their company’s success based on their own philosophies. They provided excellent insight to leadership paradigms and organizational challenges within the fast moving computer industry. Both men made positive impacts on the computer industry. It is fair to say, that the industry may not look the same today if it wasn’t for these to exceptional leaders.
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Few people know but, more than half of americans own an Apple product. The huge tech company was founded on April 1, 1976 by Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak. The company was later incorporated on January 3, 1977. Apple is known as one of the most advanced technology companies in the United States. Apple is behind the largest technological revolution in history. Apple has set itself above all other technology companies. The company has a certain way of leaving customers on the edge of their seats waiting for the latest and greatest Apple product.
Named after IBM’s first CEO Thomas J. Watson, Watson is a supercomputer able to answer questions posed in natural language. It first became famous in early 2011 for beating a couple of the best players of Jeopardy in a 3 day streak game. He beat Ken Jennings and Brad Rutter, the first had 74 winnings in a row and the second had earned a total of $3.25 million. At the time Watson was about the size of a room. It was hot and very noisy because of the cooling systems. He was represented in the room by a simple avatar. Today, Watson has changed a lot. Now it is more business friendly and has lost a lot of weight. From a Jeopardy winning computer it has become a successful commercialized supercomputer. In the following chapters I will talk about its origins, its actual situation and a little bit about its future.
...rch 5, 1975, in a carport in Menlo Park. Wozniak had been fiddling in workstation plan for quite a while when, in 1976, he outlined what might turn into the Apple I. Hobbyists finished not consider the Apple I exceptionally important, and Apple completed not start to take off until 1977, when the Apple II appeared at a nearby workstation exchange show. With the increment in deals, on the other hand, came an expansion in organization size, and by 1980, when the Apple III was discharged. In 1981, things got a bit more troublesome, Because of the plane accident that Wozniak got into. In promptly 1983, Jobs started to court John Sculley, then president of Pepsi-Cola. In April, he was fruitful, and Scully got to be president and CEO of Apple. In spite of the fact that a fruitful business person, it soon got clear that Sculley finished not know much about the PC business.
Herman Hollerith (1860 - 1929) founded IBM ( as the Tabulating Machine Company ) in 1896. The company renames known as IBM in 1924. In 1906 Lee D. Forest in America developed the electronic tube (an electronic value). Before this it would have been impossible to make digital electronic computers. In 1919 W. H. Eccles and F. W. Jordan published the first flip-flop circuit design.
IBM is a multinational corporation that started its activities in 1911. But its origins can be traced back to 1890, during the height of the Industrial Revolution. It was first known as the Computing-Recording Company, and then in 1924, it took the name of International Business Machines. Nowadays, this multinational company is known as the ¡§Big Blue¡¨
Know one would of forecast the success of IBM. It was obvious that they would be successfully because computers are extremely important in todays world. Without computers society wouldn’t be advance in technology and other areas.
The purpose of this research paper is to analyze the cell phone and computer market and how microeconomics can help to ensure a company’s success in today’s day and age. This paper will use microeconomic models and how they pertain to real-world situations and their impact to an organization, decisions of individuals and their relations to microeconomics and effective business decisions.
Throughout the years, there have been many great business leaders and influential CEOs; men and women with great leadership qualities and innovative thinking who have changed their companies. Among the many great leaders, there is one man who is highly recognized and praised for his accomplishments; Steve Jobs. Jobs was an extraordinary man. He left his mark and changed many industries, including; personal computers, music, phone, animation and film, and portable computing. However, Jobs was not always the most liked person, in fact, many of his colleagues complained that he was very tough to work with and many quit their jobs because of this. Jobs had an intense drive and demanded only the absolute best from his employees. But Jobs was a very
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From 1980 to 1996, Apple’s competitive range in the PC industry was rocky. Although Apples products were unique and well built, they were overpriced compared to competing products from IBM and others. As competitor prices dropped, Apple prices stayed the same and the company saw a decline in sales as customers opted to purchase from its competitors. John Sculley, former CEO of Apple, took many steps to improve the company’s competitive advantage. One of those steps was to compete with price by producing a low-cost computers that appealed to a mass-market. The second step was to form an alliance with rivals IBM and Novel in order to create new operating systems and applications...
Introduction and Background Apple, Inc is a well known name in the computer technology world; Apple, Inc leads the computer industry in innovation thanks to the award winning desktop and notebook computer known as OS X operating system (Yoffie & Slind, 2008). This paper will focus on Apple Inc., strategic management and why is it critical to the success of the organization in meeting its goals and mission. It is therefore important to define strategic management, according to Certo, Peter & Ottensmeyer, (2005), strategic management is a continuous process that directs an organization to be appropriately suited to its internal and external environment. Strategic management benefits organizations by providing personnel, capital, helps to set standards and most importantly activates people. For an organization to have a successful strategic management plan, the mangers must learn to think strategically and have the ability to evaluate their environment and develop new ideas.
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