Virginia Marie “Ginni” Rometty is an American business executive (Wikipedia, 2017). She is the current chairman, president and CEO of IBM, a large computer manufacturing company (Wikipedia, 2017). A s the first female to head the company, Ginni continues to drive efforts to transform IBM into a viable model for the digital age, making her one of the most powerful women in business (Forbes, 2017). Throughout her four years as the as CEO, chairman and president, she has led spending programs for data-analysis
Leadership of IBM IBM has not only succeeded in maintaining its competition in providing software, computer technology and systems integrators, but IBM also successfully managing its resource such as energy, water, and material, including waste product, thus offering environmentally friendly products and services which have been recognized by various parties and has received many awards (IBM Environment Report, 2012). IBM success is always related to the leadership style of it appointed CEO and management
Top-Level Management. Top-level managers include presidents, vice-presidents, CEOs, general managers, and senior managers, etc. Top-level managers are responsible for controlling the entire organization. The relationship among these three groups is known as Corporate Governance. The chart below explains the different components of corporate governance, and what the board of directors and the top management is composed of. IBM, like all other corporations, has the same general set-up of their corporate
Brandon Krueger 10/16/14 IT IBM has been a major innovator of computer and computer related products during this century and the last. Before IBM it was C-T-R. Herman Hollerith founded this Tabulating Machine Company in 1896. Hollerith received the first patents for his electric Tabulating Machine in 1889. In 1911 a man by the name of Charles F. Flint, a trust organizer, oversaw the merging of Herman Hollerith’s Tabulating Machine company and two other companies the Company scale Company of America
Diversification IBM a Fortune 500 company celebrated its 100th birthday this past June. IBM employs over 400,000 employees and is considered to be a $100 billion dollar or more giant in e-business global marketing technology. With the inception of the computer, IBM’s core business was mainframe computers, which almost bought the company to its knees in bankruptcy. IBM looked at the PC as just a gadget and with any gadget over time would fade into oblivion. IBM would find out the hard
During the late twentieth century, different ideas became popular about how best to manage a firm. The first theory which emerged was Stockholder theory, which encouraged managers to act as agents for the company’s legal owners: it’s stockholders. This theory held that it was the function of a firm to act in the best interests of its owners by focusing on maximizing profits. Ensuring that the stockholders’ investments paid off was the fiduciary duty of the managers of this firm. However, some managers
Anne Dumas was a successful leader and her principle was “Always stay close to the details”, which she believes that to influence the market, clients and supplier are at the detail level and the higher or intermediaries do not work. She also believes that once does not have to monitor everything but understand the detail of the situation will enhance leader to encounter problems that arise. She was successfully leading the company in a better direction, but she feels that her stylist in conflict
Millennium Tower (Abuja) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation, search Millennium Tower | A render of the Millennium Tower at night | General information | Status | Under construction | Type | Mixed-Use | Location | Abuja, Nigeria | Construction started | 2006 | Estimated completion | 2011 | Cost | ₦53 billion | Height | Antenna spire | 170 m (560 ft) | Roof | 111 m (364 ft) | Top floor | 106 m (348 ft) | Technical details | Lifts/elevators |
To resolve the insensitivity complaints of key employees, which relate to diversity, particularly gender, ethnicity, and religion, Air Aces hired Tyrone Williams (CEO) after airport clients filed numerous complaints regarding airport employees who lack cultural awareness while interacting with diverse groups of customers. Consequently, this insensitivity affects the hiring process and promotion within the Air Aces. Therefore, the objective of the paper is to develop methods of addressing these sensitive
Executive Summary IBM is among the oldest of the Fortune 500 companies with operations all over the world. The company is renowned for its capacity to transform careers and deliver innovative technologies and business solutions. Over the past decade IBM has undergone a transformation of its own as it shifts from hardware development to cloud computing and business consulting. The company sees this niche market as having huge potential to carry it forward into the ensuing decades. As IBM undergoes this