Unboxed: How Samuel Palmisano of I.B.M. Stayed a Step Ahead - Unboxed

The New York Times (Dec 31 2011) Cloud Computing

1. BECAUSE it has become so consistently successful, I.B.M. is almost boring. This is a company so predictable that its financial forecast is packaged as a “five-year road map,” as if it were some sort of state planning exercise. Related Times Topics: Samuel Palmisano | International Business Machines Corporation Add to Portfolio International Business Machines Corporation Go to your Portfolio » Yet behind I.B.M.’s relentless progress over the last decade is a game plan that has been anything but conservative. The company shed multibillion-dollar businesses. It chose higher profit margins over corporate size, and expanded aggressively overseas, seeking sales, low-cost engineering talent and quicker organizational reflexes. (Read Full Article)

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