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Should Leaders Communicate or Listen?

CLO Magazine

Another example is former IBM CEO Sam Palmisano, who guided the company to prosperity from 2002 to late 2011. This included selling IBM’s core mainframe and PC business. Shortly after Palmisano was named CEO, he had to develop a new vision for IBM to ensure the company was positioned for high-margin businesses.

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Coorpacademy

For more than a century in France, IBM has been building the foundations of a world based on intelligent and interconnected systems and on new IT architectures, thus contributing to the transformation of the French economy and society.

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3 Examples of Succession Planning Done Right

Everwise

Rometty’s succession as CEO of IBM in 2012 also is a case of internal succession planning done correctly. Her tenure with IBM began in 1981 as a systems engineer and since then she has climbed the ranks upward to SVP and Group Executive for Sales, Marketing, and Strategy before being offered the CEO role. billion acquisition in 2002.

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SAP CEO to deliver keynote at C3 2017

Litmos

McDermott joined SAP in 2002 and in 2010 was named co-CEO and helped lead the company to four consecutive years of double-digit growth by 2013. The company was founded by five former IBM employees in 1972. Combining those traits with powerful technology places you in a position to emerge as a winner, no matter the industry you’re in.”.

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Quotes and excerpts on the need for Learning 2.0 from the Best of T+D: 2007-2009

ID Reflections

Since implementing the current CoP technology in 2002 , John Deere has built a network of 300 communities that covers a wide variety of topics from Six Sigma to mergers and acquisitions to the Deere Production System. David Wilkins in Learning 2.0 Knowledge Delivered in Any Other Form Is.

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30 years of personal computing

Clive on Learning

This forms the basis of DOS for the IBM PC. 1981: First IBM PC hits the shelves, with 16K memory and mono display. IBM announces the PC AT with 286 processor and 20MB hard drive. IBM launches PS/2 range, with 16 colours. 1992: IBM reports $4.87 Apple, IBM and Motorola announce PowerPC. 1995: IBM buys Lotus.

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My Journey to Apple Products

Corporate eLearning Strategies and Development

So the next few years of my life with computers involved the IBM thinkpad and endless hours of frustration with Windows. It wasn't until Apple made the switch to OSX in 2002 that I decided it was time for the family to return to the Macintosh. And since Intel was not yet making chips for the Mac we needed to support the new job.

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