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the 2014 turnover was 4.05 times a year and 2013 turnover was 4.79. These results show IBM struggling to sell merchandise inventory to its customers and is a place the company needs to improve. Days’ Sales in Inventory:…

First, we found the equity beta by locating the market returns for both IBM and the S&P 500 from 2005 to 2014. We chose to go all the way back to 2005 to reflect both good and bad times in the market in our calculations. Equity beta is calculated by taking the covariance of the change in percentages for IBM and the S&P and dividing it by the variance in the percentage change in the S&P. Equity beta, also known as “levered beta” is the beta…

brush there is no place to include mainframe technologies. The consequence are graduates might have skills in open source type languages, and do not have the required skills to step into the demanding environment mainframe enterprises will put on them. IBM identified this shortage, and started to address this workforce shortage, and lack of tertiary education with colleges by creating a program called the Academic Initiative (Academic Initiative Program). The goal of this initiative is to help…

1. Why do you believe some companies in the Information Technology industry are able to succeed for a long time, such as IBM, while others aren’t? (Strategies, Environmental factors, etc.) - “The IT industry is all about innovation. Companies need to either innovative, make their products better or they die. Apple is a good example in the industry because they constantly create new products and better products. The moment they stop doing that they die. They were the first to come out with the…

have about entering an outsourcing agreement with IBM? With Ericsson, Nokia, or Siemens? The outsourcing to vendors and IBM were successful, but issues were there always. In the beginning of the implementation of the deal, Bharti had to contend with the high internal expectations from the deal as suddenly IT requests were coming from every office. It required a great deal of internal communication to clarify the limits of the agreement with IBM and the process that would be used to handle…

IBM is cleansing titanic assets into Watson, the Jeopardy-winning took off quick purpose of repression change that is starting now being lifted to affiliations. It 's pitched as having the capacity to settle on mind blowing choices and give time tried targets in attempts like government incapacity and money related affiliations. IBM says that business is developing, however motivations driving interest are fundamentally nothing. In February, CEO Ginni Rometty said the nonappearance of data is in…

The decided to develop a GUI of there own for the x 86 computers and called it Windows. Windows v1.0 was released in 1985. Microsoft saw this as necessary for their survival and the survival of the IBM-PC market. There GUI allowed these computers to compete with Apple. There first versions were primitive but they did the job. Even though Apple’s GUI was better and more refined, Microsoft already had a larger install base because it would be installed…

IBM was one the only major technology company at that time and wanted to build and develop the technology in order to deliver the world’s fastest computer at that time. This IT project was known for its organizational failure that ultimately leads to the termination of the project. The IT project was known as Stretch that aimed to develop the IBM 7030 as the worlds most powerful and fastest computer in the year 1961. According…

started off with creating personal and portable computers for consumers worldwide. The two main players in the PC industry are Apple and IBM. Apple and IBM took two different approaches to manufacturing their PC’s: Apple relies on horizontal and vertical integration to create their own designs and does not want to outsource their hardware to third parties while IBM uses an “open” system from Microsoft and Intel. The four main PC manufactures include HP, Dell, Lenovo, and Acer. Exhibit 5 shows…

building the platform. OTI had skills in developing platforms and they had experience in developing a number of development tools in the past. OTI also gained experience and reputation in multi-OS development. Lee felt that out of all the teams inside IBM, OTI had the most experience in this area and they could quietly deliver the product. Lee selected OTI for 2 reasons: they had enormously skilled people in this space and as a separate subsidiary they weren't subject to all of the controls and…