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Change in the business from local to global prospect provided for great opportunity to grow and at the same time brought in more challenges in the organizational structure of the companies. This case provides for a detailed discussion about various challenges present in developing a global integration. There are various forces that narrated about the reasons for IBM’s decision to become a globally integrated enterprise (Kanter, 2009). Various requirements enabled in developing the required skills for global leaders. For developing a new integration process, more detailed analysis about the issues associated with the employees, organization directly or indirectly involved in IBM has to me made.

By analyzing the issues, it was determined that there is great difficulty in exporting all the requirements from US to other part of the world which made IBM to think about globalization. Currently the leadership of the company mainly focuses into innovation and leaders have broad spectrum to think globally. As mentioned earlier in global market regulations were unfavorable for the company because of various issues like political tension which required for more integration, collaboration, and building relationship and to be more flexible. Management of the global operations was mainly done by flying to other places and Palmisano was focused only in relationship building. On the other hand, John Iwata was concerned in dealing with the national competition and political leaders of the country (Kanter, 2009). Understanding about the requirements and changing according to the requirements enabled them to become a globally integrated company. People were sent to the respective places as and when issue arises. The main objective i...

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