IBM company and its Chairman

IBM company

IBM (International Business Machines Corporation (IBM), translation: International Business Machines Corporation) is an American multinational information technology company. Its headquarters are located in the United States of America, New York. This company is spread in more than 170 countries. This company was started in 1911 as Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company, which was changed to International Business Machines in 1924.


It is also known as Big Blue. It is one of the largest workforces in the world, with approximately 380,000 employees as of 2017. These are known as IBMers. Its employees have so far received 5 Nobel Prizes, 6 Turing Prizes, 10 in the field of technology, and 5 national medals in the field of science. 

     

Chairman of IBM company

It is a matter of pride for the country that in a well-known company like IBM, Arvind Krishna of Indian origin has been given the responsibility of CEO post. Let's know who is Arvind Krishna.

IBM (International Business Machines Corp) has named Arvind Krishna as the Chief Executive Officer (CEO). Long before him this Virginia Rometty.

Let us tell you that Arvind is currently working as an executive at IBM. He was named CEO in January. From April 6, he will take over the responsibility of the CEO position in the company. Let us tell you that Arvind Krishna, who studied at IIT Kanpur, joined IBM company in 1990. He was Senior Vice President at IBM's CloudCloud and Cognitive Software. He is credited with IBM's acquisition of Red Hat for US$34 billion in 2018. He will be the fourth Indian-origin CEO of a major US tech conglomerate. 

Arvind Krishna holds a Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. 

Prior to this, he had studied Bachelor of Engineering in Electrical Engineering from Staines Higher Secondary School, Coonoor, and Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh, India (from 1980 to 1985).

History of IBM

The company that became IBM was founded in 1896 as the Table Machine Company by Herman Hollerith in Broome County, New York, Endicott, New York Where still very limited operations are done. On June 16, 1911, it was incorporated as the Computing Tabulating Recording Corporation (CTR) and was listed on the New York Stock Exchange 1911. It adopted its current name IBM in 1924 when it became a Fortune 500 company.


In the 1950s, IBM was a major vendor in the emerging computer industry with the release of its mainframes, the IBM 701, and other models, the IBM 700/7000 series. became. The company became even stronger/clearer with its IBM system/360 and IBM System/370, although the opposition organization United Nations Department of Justice (United) The States Department of Justice is expected to weaken IBM's position in the industry with the rise of minicomputers such as Digital Equipment Corporation and the introduction of Data General and microprocessors. Attempts were made, and finally, the organization had to move into many locations such as personal computers, software, and services.


In 1981, IBM introduced the personal computer, which was the original version and the first from the IBM hardware platform. IBM's offspring have been able to get the microcomputer to the group market today. On May 1, 2005, IBM sold its PC portion to the Chinese company Lenovo for $655 million in cash and $600 million for Lenovo. sold the stock.


On January 25, 2007, Ricoh announced the purchase of IBM Printing Systems for $725 million, and after three years of joint work created a new subsidiary, Ricoh InfoPrint Solutions Company, and Ricoh in InfoPrint. IBM will own 51% of the shares and IBM will own 49% of the shares.

Corporate Culture of IBM.


Big Blue is a nickname for IBM; There are many theories available regarding its origin. Those who work for IBM have a theory that IBM coined the term in the 1960s. BM founded Manfrum in the 1960s and early 1970s. The use of term All Blue was later assumed to refer to loyal IBM customers and business writers.  Another theory suggested Big Blue as the company's logo. The third theory suggested that Big Blue refers to the former company's dress code, which required many IBM employees to wear only white shirts and many to wear blue shirts.  In any event, IBM employees Build a keyboard, typewriter, and some other must-have devices on the Big Blue concept, using color for entering keys and comebacks

sales


IBM is often described as a sales-oriented or sales-oriented business culture. Traditionally, many IBM executives and managers are selected from the sales force. To quote the current CEO, Sam Palmisano, who joined the company as a salesperson, unusually CEOs of large corporations do not have MBAs or postgraduate qualifications. Middle and upper management often directly assist salesmen in pitching sales to important customers.

Uniform

Dark or gray shoots, white shirts, and tailored ties were the common uniforms for most of the 20th century IBM employees. During the IBM management change in the 1990s, Lou Gerstner relaxed the established code, Dress and behavior normalized for IBM employees to resemble those of other large technology companies.

IBM Company Values ​​and "Gem"


In 2003, IBM embarked on a significant project to rewrite the company's values. The company hosted Internet-based online discussions on key business issues for approximately three days with 50,000 employees using GEM technology. That discussion was analyzed using sophisticated text analysis software (classifier) ​​for online commentaries on the topic. In 2003 the resulting company value was updated to reflect three modern business, marketplace, and employee considerations; "Dedication to every customer's success", "Innovation holds value for our company and the world", and "All relationships must have trust and personal responsibility".


In 2004, another GEM was held in which 52,000 employees practiced the best change over 72 hours. They focus on viable ideas to support the implementation of previously identified values. A new post-gem notation was developed to allow IBM to select key ideas to support the values. The board of directors was invoking this gem when Pulmisano's salaries were increasing in the spring of 2005. 


In July and September 2006, Pulmisno launched another gem called InnovationJam. it is said. Innovation was the largest online brainstorming session to date, with over 150,000 participants from 104 countries. IBM employees, family members of IBM employees, universities, partners, and customers were the participants in the event. The innovation was split over two 72-hour sessions (one in July and one in September) and generated over 46,000 views. In November 2006, IBM announced an investment of US$100 million in Innovation Gem's Best Ten Ideas. 

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