23 Articles match "downturn","IBM"

• The Best from Informal Learning Flow

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• The Value of Role Models in the Downturn
  
  Among big companies, IBM and Procter & Gamble are bright spots. IBM's earnings have beaten forecasts; P&G has a robust business and has already integrated its huge Gillette acquisition relatively seamlessly. This downturn's survivors will be the role models for a new kind of business practice that is more socially responsible not as an add-on or after-thought but as a first thought at the core of its business operations. It's hard to find many bright spots in the increasingly gloomy economy , but they're out there. Why are these and select other companies faring
  HarvardBusiness.org - Monday, March 2, 2009
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• IBM Snatches Up Companies Left & Right
  
  Today, IBM announced two acquisitions: source code and application security company Ounce Labs , and SPSS , a provider of predictive analytics. Both purchases arrive on the heels of IBM picking up the privately-held Exeros in May. Downturn or not, IBM isn't picking these companies up on the cheap. SPSS — a publicly traded firm — was bought for $1.2 billion, which breaks down to an all-time high of $50 a share.
  ReadWriteWeb - Tuesday, July 28, 2009
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• Why Small Companies Will Win in This Economy
  
  And they beat out several much larger more established companies, like CA (14,000 employees) and IBM (400,000 employees), to win those customers. Just ask John Drummond, who started Unicycle.com after getting laid off from IBM during the last downturn. I just heard a story from a client that's hard to believe but true. In the worst economy we've seen in decades, Passlogix, a privately owned 100-person software development company, just received over a million dollars in prepaid commitments for the next three to five years of service.
  HarvardBusiness.org - Monday, March 23, 2009
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• 2009 Will Be an Economic Engine for Change
  
  While things are undoubtedly more difficult these days, downturns in the economy are a necessary part of our economic lifecycle and in many cases, they create the greatest economic opportunities. Board of Education , forcing desegregation in US schools; another recession four years later ushered in the Civil Rights Movement ; the 1973 oil crisis marked the birth of the personal computer and the birth of biotechnology via its founding company, Genentech ; the recession of the early 1980s gave us--for better or worse-- Reaganomics and the proliferation of PCs , led by Microsoft,
  HarvardBusiness.org - Tuesday, December 23, 2008
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• Smart Cities as Systems of Systems
  
  I was recently in Berlin to attend a conference on Smart Cities sponsored by IBM.  This conference is part of a global dialogue on the growth of cities and urbanization in general that IBM launched a few months ago as part of its overall Smarter Planet initiative. “Why cities?”, asked IBM’s chairman and CEO Sam Palmisano when he kicked off the Smarter Cities dialogue at the end of April.  He then proceeded to articulate the two key reasons for focusing on cities, one centered on people, the other on technology and systems. “Well, to state the obvious - that's where the people are. 
  Irving Wladawsky-Berger - Thursday, July 2, 2009
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• Use Green to Grow (Not Just Cut Costs)
  
  Smart businesses will emerge from this downturn stronger than their competition by focusing on their customers' changing energy and environmental needs, preparing for a new policy landscape, and investing in tomorrow's clean technologies. IBM, with its Smarter Planet initiative , is just one company that is actively engaging its customers to help them address the challenges and opportunities of the changing policy landscape. In the face of the current recession, there has been much talk about using sustainability to "get lean" by being more efficient . But in every crisis
  HarvardBusiness.org - Monday, May 18, 2009
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• After Lehman: How Innovation Thrives In a Crisis
  
  Companies that continued to focus on innovation in the midst of the downturn, such as Amazon.com, IBM , and Procter & Gamble, are very well positioned to create substantial distance between themselves and their competitors. The economic shocks that reverberated through the economy a year ago could easily have marked the end of the nascent "Innovation Movement." After all, how could companies prioritize developing innovation programs in the face of very real questions of fundamental survival?
  HarvardBusiness.org - Tuesday, September 15, 2009
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• Re-inventing Management and Management Education
  
  IBM's near-death experience in the 1990s was very painful for me personally and for all us in the company.  In her book Let Go to Grow , my IBM colleague Linda Sanford cites a number of ominous statistics.  Just before sitting down to write this post, I was reading about Sun Microsystems, one of the most successful computer companies in the last 20 years, at the top of the world during the dot-com days, being pushed to the brink by the present economic downturn. Through the years, I have watched with a kind of morbid fascination the number of once powerful companies that are no longer around. 
  Irving Wladawsky-Berger - Monday, November 24, 2008
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• How to Beat the Next Recession
  
  Sixteen years ago, on the heels of the early 90s downturn, Toyota started designing what it thought would fit the demands of the 21st Century. In addition to well-publicized mega-goals for growth of green product sales from the likes of P&G, GE, and IBM, others are signaling their intentions to play in new spaces. In addition to shaking up these growing industries, and possibly helping to lower the costs of both solar and LED lights, We're in the midst of the worst decline in auto sales history — yet Toyota can't make the newest model of its hybrid gas-electric Prius fast enough .
  HarvardBusiness.org - Wednesday, June 24, 2009
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• 10 Ways Social Media Will Change In 2010
  
  As social media became a public domain, enterprises have been cautious participants, predominantly in the product space, with few visionary leaders like Zappos, IBM and Dell. An economic downturn coupled with the surge of social media eliminated many traditional marketing and PR roles. This time last year, I wrote about the 10 ways social media will change 2009 , and while all predictions have materialized or are on their way, it has only become clear in recent months how significant of a change we've seen this year. 2009 will go down as the year in which the shroud of uncertainty
  ReadWriteWeb - Friday, December 11, 2009
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