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Building IBM

Author : Emerson W. Pugh
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262307685
Total Pages : 424 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (623 download)

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Download or read book Building IBM written by Emerson W. Pugh and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2009-01-23 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Building IBM Enterprise Content Management Solutions From End to End

Author : Wei-Dong Zhu
Publisher : IBM Redbooks
ISBN 13 : 0738439967
Total Pages : 636 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (384 download)

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Book Synopsis Building IBM Enterprise Content Management Solutions From End to End by : Wei-Dong Zhu

Download or read book Building IBM Enterprise Content Management Solutions From End to End written by Wei-Dong Zhu and published by IBM Redbooks. This book was released on 2014-10-22 with total page 636 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: IBM® Enterprise Content Management (ECM) solutions provide efficient and effective ways to capture content, manage the content and business processes, discover insights from the content, and derive actions to improve business processes, products, and services. This IBM Redbooks® publication introduces and highlights some of the IBM ECM products that can be implemented and integrated together to create end-to-end ECM solutions: IBM Case Manager IBM Datacap IBM Content Manager OnDemand IBM Enterprise Records IBM WatsonTM Content Analytics IBM Content Classification For each product involved in the ECM solution, this IBM Redbooks publication briefly describes what it is, its functions and capabilities, and provides step-by-step procedures for installing, configuring, and implementing it. In addition, we provide procedures for integrating these products together to create an end-to-end ECM solution to achieve the overall solution objectives. Not all of the products are required to be integrated into an ECM solution. Depending on your business requirements, you can choose a subset of these products to be built into your ECM solutions. This book serves as a hands-on learning guide for information technology (IT) specialists who plan to build ECM solutions from end-to-end, for a proof of concept (PoC) environment, or for a proof of technology environment. For implementing a production-strength ECM solution, also refer to IBM Knowledge Center, IBM Redbooks publications, and IBM Software Services.

Building IBM Business Process Management Solutions Using WebSphere V7 and Business Space

Author : Martin Keen
Publisher : IBM Redbooks
ISBN 13 : 0738434337
Total Pages : 778 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (384 download)

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Download or read book Building IBM Business Process Management Solutions Using WebSphere V7 and Business Space written by Martin Keen and published by IBM Redbooks. This book was released on 2011-01-17 with total page 778 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: IBM® Business Space powered by IBM WebSphere® is a common user interface framework for aggregating content and delivering it via a browser. A is a collection of related Web content that provides you with insight into your business. Part 1 of this IBM Redbooks® publication introduces Business Space and provides Business Process Management (BPM) usage patterns for it. Part 2 of this book use a fictional business scenario to show how business space widgets can be used to solve a variety of business problems, using products such as IBM WebSphere Process Server, IBM WebSphere Enterprise Service Bus, IBM WebSphere Business Monitor, IBM WebSphere Business Compass, and IBM WebSphere Business Services Fabric. Part 3 shows how to build custom Business Space widgets, and how to build clients and servers for these custom widgets. This book addresses Business Space powered by IBM WebSphere Version 7.0.

IBM SmartCloud: Building a Cloud Enabled Data Center

Author : Pietro Iannucci
Publisher : IBM Redbooks
ISBN 13 : 0738438049
Total Pages : 42 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (384 download)

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Book Synopsis IBM SmartCloud: Building a Cloud Enabled Data Center by : Pietro Iannucci

Download or read book IBM SmartCloud: Building a Cloud Enabled Data Center written by Pietro Iannucci and published by IBM Redbooks. This book was released on 2013-05-21 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Organizations are looking for ways to get more out of their already strained IT infrastructure as they face new technological and economic pressures. They are also trying to satisfy a broad set of users (internal and external to the enterprise) who demand improvements in their quality of service (QoS), regardless of increases in the number of users and applications. Cloud computing offers attractive opportunities to reduce costs, accelerate development, and increase the flexibility of the IT infrastructure, applications, and services. Infrastructure as a service (IaaS) is the typical starting point for most organizations when moving to a cloud computing environment. IaaS can be used for the delivery of resources such as compute, storage, and network services through a self-service portal. With IaaS, IT services are delivered as a subscription service, eliminating up-front costs and driving down ongoing support costs. IBM® has defined the Cloud Computing Reference Architecture (CCRA) based on years of experience of working with customers who have implemented cloud-computing solutions. The IBM CCRA is a blueprint or guide for architecting cloud-computing implementations. This IBM RedguideTM publication highlights the Cloud Enabled Data Center adoption pattern and describes how you can use it to define an IaaS solution. This guide is intended for chief technology officers, data center architects, IT architects, and application architects who want to understand the cloud-computing infrastructure necessary to support their applications and services by using an IaaS solution. It explains the technical and business benefits of a Cloud Enabled Data Center solution. It introduces a Cloud Enabled Data Center maturity model where each maturity level corresponds to an increase in the degree of automation and the cloud-computing capabilities that are available. In addition, this guide describes the architectural framework provided by the IBM CCRA and explains details about the Cloud Enabled Data Center adoption pattern.

A Business and Its Beliefs

Author : Thomas J. Watson
Publisher : McGraw-Hill
ISBN 13 : 9780071626453
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (264 download)

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Download or read book A Business and Its Beliefs written by Thomas J. Watson and published by McGraw-Hill. This book was released on 2003-04 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The timeless business book that still brings perspective and guidance to today's bottom-line executives When first published in 1963, IBM CEO Thomas Watson Jr.'s A Business and Its Beliefs gave readers an unprecedented look inside IBM's executive offices. Watson--son of IBM's founder--candidly discussed how the company clung to its values during the first great technological shift, and how this refusal to compromise became IBM's strength. He also became one of the first CEOs to question business's place and responsibility in society, and openly discuss how firms could meet expanding social expectations while still turning a profit. The groundbreaking ideas in this book still resonate with today's managers. This newly published edition reintroduces Watson's ideas to a new generation of decision-makers in search of IBM-style standards for their own organizations. A to-the-point examination of the values and beliefs that built and sustained IBM, its message is as valuable today as it was four decades back--and will once again strike a resounding chord with executives everywhere. .†

How to Use IBM Cloud Object Storage When Building and Operating Cloud Native Applications

Author : Giri Badanahatti
Publisher : IBM Redbooks
ISBN 13 : 0738457043
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (384 download)

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Book Synopsis How to Use IBM Cloud Object Storage When Building and Operating Cloud Native Applications by : Giri Badanahatti

Download or read book How to Use IBM Cloud Object Storage When Building and Operating Cloud Native Applications written by Giri Badanahatti and published by IBM Redbooks. This book was released on 2018-11-15 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This IBM® RedpaperTM publication presents a series of tutorials for cloud native developers just getting started with IBM CloudTM and IBM Cloud Object Storage. Within the context of a car insurance application, this paper presents an introductory series of linked modules that allow developers unfamiliar with either IBM Cloud or cloud native development to get started with application development using IBM starter kits. This allows you to become familiar with the types of services available on IBM Cloud, and to develop a sense of which patterns and choices are appropriate for different use cases. Some of the technologies and products covered in this book are Cloudant®, WatsonTM Analytics, machine learning, elastic search, Kubernetes, containers, pre-signed URLs, Aspera®, and SQL Query. In addition to the technical integration steps, it also presents a business case for integrating these technologies and products with IBM Cloud Object Storage. The target audience for this paper is cloud native developers and cloud object storage specialists.

IBM FileNet P8 Platform and Architecture

Author : Wei-Dong Zhu
Publisher : IBM Redbooks
ISBN 13 : 0738435317
Total Pages : 410 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (384 download)

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Book Synopsis IBM FileNet P8 Platform and Architecture by : Wei-Dong Zhu

Download or read book IBM FileNet P8 Platform and Architecture written by Wei-Dong Zhu and published by IBM Redbooks. This book was released on 2011-04-21 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: IBM® FileNet® Platform is a next-generation, unified enterprise foundation for the integrated IBM FileNet P8 products. It combines the enterprise content management with comprehensive business process management and compliance capabilities. IBM FileNet P8 addresses the most demanding compliance, content, and process management needs for your entire organization. It is a key element in creating an agile, adaptable enterprise content management (ECM) environment necessary to support a dynamic organization that must respond quickly to change. In this IBM Redbooks® publication, we provide an overview of IBM FileNet P8 and describe the core component architecture. We also introduce major expansion products that extend IBM FileNet P8 functionality in the areas of content ingestion, content accessing through connectors and federation, the application framework, and discovery and compliance. In this book, we discuss the anatomy of an ECM infrastructure, content event processing, content life cycle, and business processes. This book gives IT architects, IT specialists, and IT Technical Sales a solid understanding of IBM FileNet P8 Platform, its architecture, its functions and extensibility, and its unlimited capabilities.

Modern Web Development with IBM WebSphere

Author : Kyle Brown
Publisher : IBM Press
ISBN 13 : 0133067092
Total Pages : 377 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (33 download)

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Download or read book Modern Web Development with IBM WebSphere written by Kyle Brown and published by IBM Press. This book was released on 2014-05-27 with total page 377 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Build Tomorrow’s Best Mobile/Web Applications with IBM WebSphere Application Server 8.5 and IBM Worklight This guide presents a coherent strategy for building modern mobile/web applications that are fast, responsive, interactive, reusable, maintainable, extensible, and a pleasure to use. Four IBM experts offer practical, hands-on coverage of front-end development with IBM WebSphere Application Server 8.5, IBM Worklight, and today’s most popular open source frameworks. Using well-crafted examples, the authors introduce best practices for MobileFirst development, helping you create apps that work superbly on mobile devices and add features on conventional browsers. Throughout, you’ll learn better ways to deliver Web 2.0 apps with HTML /JavaScript front ends, RESTful Web Services, and persistent data. Proven by IBM and its customers, the approach covered in this book leads to more successful mobile/web applications—and more effective development teams. Coverage Includes • Developing for MobileFirst: moving from “graceful degradation” to “progressive enhancement” • Quickly delivering lightweight JEE apps with WebSphere Application Server’s new Liberty Profile • Implementing an agile, user-centered, page-oriented approach to design • Constructing REST services with WebSphere Liberty, Eclipse, and JEE annotations • Building better front-end application architectures with frameworks and JavaScript • Designing and building complex, transactional RESTful services that interface with databases and other data sources • Building IBM Worklight hybrid apps with open source frameworks: jQuery Mobile, Backbone, Require.js, and Handlebars • Debugging cross-platform, multi-language modern web apps • Promoting scalability, security, and connectivity into the wider enterprise The IBM Press developerWorks Series pairs books with complementary resources on the developerWorks website at https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/dwbooks/

Inside IBM

Author : James W. Cortada
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231559674
Total Pages : 519 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (315 download)

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Download or read book Inside IBM written by James W. Cortada and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2023-10-31 with total page 519 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 Cognitive Applications with IBM Watson Services: Volume 1 Getting Started

Author : Dr. Alfio Gliozzo
Publisher : IBM Redbooks
ISBN 13 : 073844264X
Total Pages : 130 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (384 download)

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Download or read book Building Cognitive Applications with IBM Watson Services: Volume 1 Getting Started written by Dr. Alfio Gliozzo and published by IBM Redbooks. This book was released on 2017-06-23 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Building Cognitive Applications with IBM Watson Services series is a seven-volume collection that introduces IBM® WatsonTM cognitive computing services. The series includes an overview of specific IBM Watson® services with their associated architectures and simple code examples. Each volume describes how you can use and implement these services in your applications through practical use cases. The series includes the following volumes: Volume 1 Getting Started, SG24-8387 Volume 2 Conversation, SG24-8394 Volume 3 Visual Recognition, SG24-8393 Volume 4 Natural Language Classifier, SG24-8391 Volume 5 Language Translator, SG24-8392 Volume 6 Speech to Text and Text to Speech, SG24-8388 Volume 7 Natural Language Understanding, SG24-8398 Whether you are a beginner or an experienced developer, this collection provides the information you need to start your research on Watson services. If your goal is to become more familiar with Watson in relation to your current environment, or if you are evaluating cognitive computing, this collection can serve as a powerful learning tool. This IBM Redbooks® publication, Volume 1, introduces cognitive computing, its motivating factors, history, and basic concepts. This volume describes the industry landscape for cognitive computing and introduces Watson, the cognitive computing offering from IBM. It also describes the nature of the question-answering (QA) challenge that is represented by the Jeopardy! quiz game and it provides a high-level overview of the QA system architecture (DeepQA), developed for Watson to play the game. This volume charts the evolution of the Watson Developer Cloud, from the initial DeepQA implementation. This book also introduces the concept of domain adaptation and the processes that must be followed to adapt the various Watson services to specific domains.

Building Smarter Planet Solutions with MQTT and IBM WebSphere MQ Telemetry

Author : Valerie Lampkin
Publisher : IBM Redbooks
ISBN 13 : 0738437085
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (384 download)

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Download or read book Building Smarter Planet Solutions with MQTT and IBM WebSphere MQ Telemetry written by Valerie Lampkin and published by IBM Redbooks. This book was released on 2012-09-07 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: MQ Telemetry Transport (MQTT) is a messaging protocol that is lightweight enough to be supported by the smallest devices, yet robust enough to ensure that important messages get to their destinations every time. With MQTT devices such as smart energy meters, cars, trains, satellite receivers, and personal health care devices can communicate with each other and with other systems or applications. This IBM® Redbooks® publication introduces MQTT and takes a scenario-based approach to demonstrate its capabilities. It provides a quick guide to getting started and then shows how to grow to an enterprise scale MQTT server using IBM WebSphere® MQ Telemetry. Scenarios demonstrate how to integrate MQTT with other IBM products, including WebSphere Message Broker. This book also provides typical usage patterns and guidance on scaling a solution. The intended audience for this book ranges from new users of MQTT and telemetry to those readers who are looking for in-depth knowledge and advanced topics.

IBM

Author : James W. Cortada
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262547821
Total Pages : 747 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (625 download)

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Download or read book IBM written by James W. Cortada and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2023-08-01 with total page 747 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

The Greatest Capitalist Who Ever Lived

Author : Ralph Watson McElvenny
Publisher : PublicAffairs
ISBN 13 : 1541768531
Total Pages : 509 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (417 download)

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Download or read book The Greatest Capitalist Who Ever Lived written by Ralph Watson McElvenny and published by PublicAffairs. This book was released on 2023-10-24 with total page 509 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The enduring story of Thomas Watson Jr.—a figure more important to the creation of the modern world than Rockefeller, Vanderbilt, and Morgan Nearly fifty years into IBM’s existence, Thomas Watson Jr. undertook the biggest gamble in business history when he “bet the farm” on the creation of the IBM System/360, the world’s first fully integrated and compatible mainframe computer. As CEO, Watson drove a revolution no other company—then or now—would dare, laying the foundation for the digital age that has transformed every society, corporation, and government. The story of Watson being “present at the creation” of the digital age is intertwined with near-Shakespearean personal drama. While he put IBM and its employees at risk, Watson also carried out a family-shattering battle over the future of the company with his brother Dick. This titanic struggle between brothers led to Dick’s death and almost killed Watson Jr. himself. Though he was eventually touted by Fortune magazine as “the greatest capitalist who ever lived,” Watson’s directionless, playboy early years made him an unlikely candidate for corporate titan. How he pulled his life together and, despite personal demons, paved the way for what became a global industry is an epic tale full of drama, inspiration, and valuable lessons in leadership, risk-taking, and social responsibility.

Smart Cities: Big Data, Civic Hackers, and the Quest for a New Utopia

Author : Anthony M. Townsend
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 039324153X
Total Pages : 317 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (932 download)

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Download or read book Smart Cities: Big Data, Civic Hackers, and the Quest for a New Utopia written by Anthony M. Townsend and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2013-10-07 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An unflinching look at the aspiring city-builders of our smart, mobile, connected future. From Beijing to Boston, cities are deploying smart technology—sensors embedded in streets and subways, Wi-Fi broadcast airports and green spaces—to address the basic challenges faced by massive, interconnected metropolitan centers. In Smart Cities, Anthony M. Townsend documents this emerging futuristic landscape while considering the motivations, aspirations, and shortcomings of the key actors—entrepreneurs, mayors, philanthropists, and software developers—at work in shaping the new urban frontier.

Building Real-time Mobile Solutions with MQTT and IBM MessageSight

Author : Bryan Boyd
Publisher : IBM Redbooks
ISBN 13 : 0738440051
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (384 download)

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Download or read book Building Real-time Mobile Solutions with MQTT and IBM MessageSight written by Bryan Boyd and published by IBM Redbooks. This book was released on 2014-12-05 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: MQTT is a messaging protocol designed for the Internet of Things (IoT). It is lightweight enough to be supported by the smallest devices, yet robust enough to ensure that important messages get to their destinations every time. With MQTT devices, such as energy meters, cars, trains, mobile phones and tablets, and personal health care devices, devices can communicate with each other and with other systems or applications. IBM® MessageSight is a messaging appliance designed to handle the scale and security of a robust IoT solution. MessageSight allows you to easily secure connections, configure policies for messaging, and scale to up to a million concurrently connected devices. This IBM Redbooks® publication introduces MQTT and MessageSight through a simple key fob remote MQTT application. It then dives into the architecture and development of a robust, cross-platform Ride Share and Taxi solution (PickMeUp) with real-time voice, GPS location sharing, and chat among a variety of mobile platforms. The publication also includes an addendum describing use cases in a variety of other domains, with sample messaging topology and suggestions for design.

Inventing the Electronic Century

Author : Alfred Dupont CHANDLER
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674029399
Total Pages : 342 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (74 download)

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Download or read book Inventing the Electronic Century written by Alfred Dupont CHANDLER and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2009-06-30 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Consumer electronics and computers redefined life and work in the twentieth century. In Inventing the Electronic Century, Pulitzer Prize-winning business historian Alfred D. Chandler, Jr., traces their origins and worldwide development. This masterful analysis is essential reading for every manager and student of technology.

Making the World Work Better

Author : Kevin Maney
Publisher : Pearson Education
ISBN 13 : 0132755130
Total Pages : 495 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (327 download)

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Download or read book Making the World Work Better written by Kevin Maney and published by Pearson Education. This book was released on 2011-06-10 with total page 495 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.