...ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES IN BUSINESS Name: Institution: Instructor: Introduction Environmental management refers to the process of dealing with various environmental issues that arise from an organization’s operations. Environmental management includes all the technologies and activities essential in controlling the environmental performance of an organization. Environmental management systems (EMS) refers to the comprehensive management strategies organizations apply in responding to environmental issues through the integration of environment-conscious thinking in all business management aspects and operating systems. The environmental management systems focus on ensuring that organizations manage various environmental impacts associated with their activities. Environmental management systems are critical components of organizations alongside strategic planning, public relations productivity, and product quality. Environmental management systems are critical in the marketplace success of various organizations since consumers are attracted to businesses that focus on sustainable development and environmental integrity issues. The ISO 14000 family of international certifications provide guidelines about different environmental management issues and they are the benchmarks used by many multinational companies in evaluating their environmental activities (Rondinelli and Vastag 2000). For instance, the ISO 14001 certification provides the conditions of developing environmental...
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...International Business Machines Corporation (IBM) Name Institution Date Abstract The International Business Machines Corporation work to offer innovation on the global economy through its high value solution and the integrated technology of business model so that it can produce measurable results for its customers. This research study intends to bring out the implementation of IBM in different fields of competition, target market, product strategy, distribution, communication and pricing strategies and in comparison of its implementation in different countries. Introduction The international Business Machines Corporation (IBM) is an international technology corporation based in Armonk, New York, United States. The company manufactures and promotes hardware and software computer products and offers communications, hosting and consulting services with its diverse expertise ranging from nanotechnology to mainframe computers. The Main Line of Business of IBM The birth of the company dates back to 1911 through the a unification of three companies namely; the Computing Scale Company, the International Time Recording Company and the Tabulating Machine Company, thus the formation of the then Computing Tabulating Recording Company. The current IBM adopted its name from the earlier CTR in 1924 and was nicknamed the big blue because of the common use of blue color in its logo, packaging and products (Young et al, 2003). The 8th in ranking of the leading information...
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...Knowledge Management and Information Strategy Assessment Table of Contents 1. Introduction: 4 1.1. Organization (IBM) brief: 4 1.2. Services provided by the organization: 5 2. Employee management in the organization: 5 2.1. Technologies invented and business: 5 2.2. Various collaborations: 7 2.3. Implementation of knowledge management strategy: 7 2.4. Post implementation analysis: 8 3. Potential application: 8 3.1. Communities of practices within the company: 9 3.2. Organizational influences: 10 3.3. Community evolution in IBM Global Services: 10 3.4. Patterns followed: 11 4. Conclusion: 12 References: 13 1. Introduction: Knowledge management (KM) is group of processes that concerns the creation, distribution and consumption of knowledge. It’s a broad topic and is not only a technological strategy. It mainly governs the whole process of discovery and formation of knowledge. KM balances and increases other managerial initiatives such as total quality management (TQM), business process re engineer (BPR) and organizational learning providing a latest and urgent focus to continue competitive spot (Abrahamson, 2003). In order to serve the customers well and remain in the business knowledge management should be applied. But none of it would be possible without a continuous focus on formation, updating, accessibility, quality and the use of knowledge by all the staff and teams at work. 1.1. Organization (IBM) brief: The International Business Machines...
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...STRATEGIC MARKETING International Business Machines Techno in or techno out Case study 6-13 By Giana Martiena, MBA 2012-2013 Faculty of Hospitality, Tourism Management & International Business Studies University of Aruba, March 2013 INTRODUCTION By adapting its marketing strategy to meet and create demands International Business Machines (IBM) has proven to be able to withstand the ever changing technical world. Challenges come and go, in this case study we discuss a three-prong road that IBM faced. Should they continue to be a tech services company? Or should they explore the collaborative business model, running a risk to become exploited? Is it an option to keep the acquisition spree going for growth rather than organically grow by in-house or collaborative research and development? Facts of the case Structure, management and strategic directions IBM is a multinational corporation that started its activities in 1911. Its origins however, can be traced to 1890, during the height of the Industrial Revolution. It was first known as the Computing-Recording Company, and then in 1924, it took the name of International Business Machines. Nowadays, this multinational company is known as the ¡§Big Blue¡¨ It was first known as the Computing-Recording Company, and then in 1924, it took the name of International Business Machines. Nowadays, this multinational company is known as the ¡§Big Blue¡¨ IBM main activity is to find solutions to its wide range of clients...
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...TABLE OF CONTENTS Introduction 2 Global Impacts of the Credit Crunch 3 IBM – International Business Machines 4 Table 1: IBM’s Financial Performance History 2000-2009. Source: IBM Annual Report 2009 5 Table 2: Earnings per share 2006 to 2010 projection. Source: IBM Annual Report 2009. 6 How the Credit Crunch Impacted IBM’s Operations 7 Global Integration 7 Changing Business Scope 7 Revenue 8 Human Resource Management Impacts 8 Price Instability 8 Exchange Rate Fluctuation 8 Interest Rate Fluctuations 8 Debt 9 Notable Impacts 9 IBM’s Operational Strategy 10 Strategic Response 10 HRM Strategy 10 Value Chain Strategy – Developing a Business of Values 11 Table 3: IBM Value Chain. Source – ibm.com/services 12 International Strategy 13 Institutional Strategy 13 Recommendations for Future Growth 14 Delivering Value to Customers 14 Human Resource Capital 15 Research and Development 16 References 17 Bibliography 18 Introduction The ‘Credit Crunch’ emerged in 2007 with the first effects being felt by the U.S. Mortgage industry. The term ‘credit crunch’ came was used to describe the collapse of the subprime mortgage industry that resulted in a freeze in lending by financial institutions. With non-payment of loans, huge debt and no capital gains, financial institutions began to go under. Investment banks, financial services and real estate market felt immediate impacts. Trillions of U.S. dollars were lost, huge government bailouts...
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...FULL NAME : LINH PHUONG TRAN STUDENT ID : BH12027 UOG ID : 000792235 MODULE CODE : BUSI1317 MODULE TUTOR : HA NGUYEN MODULE NAME : STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT COURSE : BA ( HON) BUSINESS MANAGEMENT INTAKE : MARCH 2013 TITLE : LENOVO EAST MEETS WEST OUTLINE TABLE CONTENTS I. INTRODUCTION 4 II. LENOVO HISTORY AND VISION STATEMENT 4 III. LENOVO SWOT ANALYSIS 6 1. External factors (O- opportunity and T-threat) 6 2. Internal factors ( S- strength and W-weakness) 9 IV. LENOVO STRATEGIC CHOICES 13 V. CONCLUSION AND RECOMMENDATION 14 List of figure Figure | Name | page | 1 | The Lenovo history timeline | 4 | 2 | Lenovo vision statement | 5 | 3 | Porter’s Diamond model | 6 | 4 | Lenovo Porter’s Diamond model | 7 | 5 | Strength in Lenovo’s structure | 10 | 6 | Lenovo CAGE framework | 11 | 7 | Lenovo strategic implementation | 13 | 8 | strategic triangle | 14 | I. INTRODUCTION Thomas L.Friedman reminded to the term "Flat world" as the way to describe to an era of new World economy. Which including the globalization, intense competition, a big market without borders, the variety and combination of cultures in the World (Thomas L. Friedman, 2005; Victor K. Fung, el, at 2007; Ronald Aronica and Mtetwa Ramdoo, 2006). In fact, The change, updates, innovation and competition in technology industry are taking a level higher, because it happening every days, every hours (Jeffrey T. Macher, David C. Mowery; 2004). Factors...
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...Executing a global growth strategy at Lenovo For the analysis of the process of globalization has been chosen Lenovo, currently classified at 370 in the ranking of Fortune Global 500. It came into existence in 2005 when Legend Holdings acquired the former Personal Computer Division of IBM, the company that invented the PC industry in 1981. Today, Lenovo is a $21 billion personal technology company and the world's second-largest PC vendor, with more than 26,000 employees serving customers in more than 160 countries The choice of this company prompted me my recent visit to one of the factories Lenovo, in Shenzhen, and a huge impression on me that this visit was exerted. This well-organized corporation attaches great importance to the planning of its development and is very determined in its objectives. Position that the company has achieved on very difficult market of personal computers proves accurate transformation strategy from local leader into a powerful global player. Lenovo's position in any part of it is not the work of chance. The following sections concentrate on the discussion of Lenovo’s core competence and its globalisation strategy. Lenovo was originally called Legend Beijing, and was founded in 1984 by Liu Chuanzhi along with ten colleagues at the Computer Technology Institute of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS). With an initial investment of 200,000 Yuan, the company was established with the aim of commercializing the research and development activities...
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...IBM- International Business Machines Corporation Background International Business Machines Corporation, or well-known IBM, is an American multinational technology and consulting corporation, with headquarters in Armonk, New York, was founded in 1911 as the Computing Tabulating Recording Company (CTR) through a merger of three companies: the Tabulating Machine Company, the International Time Recording Company, and the Computing Scale Company. In 1924, CTR adopted the name “International Business Machines”. Today, IBM is ranked the second largest U.S. firm in terms of number of employees (433,362), fourth largest in terms of market capitalization, the ninth most profitable, and the nineteenth largest firm in terms of revenue by Fortune 500. IBM employs 105,000 workers in the U.S. with more than $106.9 billion in annual revenue. IBM produces computer hardware and software, and is one of the largest technology consulting businesses in the world. It operates in five primary segments: global technology services, systems and technology, global business services, software and global financing. The global technology services segment primarily includes IT infrastructure services and business process services. The systems and technology division provides IBM’s clients with business solutions built on advanced computing power and storage capabilities. Offerings include servers and infrastructure storage products; microelectronics for IBM systems and for sale to original equipment...
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...Regulatory Risk Management Analysis: IBM Jane Doe BLAW 531 January 12, 2012 John Smith Regulatory Risk Management Analysis: IBM Global warming is a term that we have become very familiar with over the last decades. Gradually, it is disturbing human living conditions and because societies’ lack of environmental protection responsibility, more damage is forecasted to take place. Rising temperatures are expected to raise the sea level, change climate conditions, alter desserts and forests, water supplies, crop yields, harm many ecosystems of animals and threat human life. Throughout the world, there is naturally caused pollution, but the majority of the world’s pollution is caused by humanity. In the United States, as well as many other industrialized countries, the greatest source of contamination is the industrial community. At the peak of the Industrial Revolution, industries efforts were focused on profitability and how much product they push out of the assembly lines. Environmental protection was not a priority in comparison with maintaining high levels of production. Protecting the environment is a costly and a real matter to any business, but it is the ideal outcome to find that balance where companies protect the environment while still remained profitable. In the United States there is no better example of environmental conscience and profitable as International Business Machines (IBM). IBM leads the United States as the ‘greenest’ company and second...
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...MARQUIS ROSABETH MOSS KANTER IBM: The Corporate Service Corps In February of 2009, Kevin Thompson, program manager for the IBM Corporate Services Corps sat down with Stanley Litow, Vice President of Corporate Citizenship and Corporate Affairs, and Robin Willner, Vice President of Global Community Initiatives at IBM. They had recently received the results of an independent evaluation of the first 100 participants in IBM’s new employee leadership development program called the Corporate Service Corps (CSC). The CSC was an international community service assignment for high-potential IBM employees and 2008 was its pilot year. 11 teams of IBM’s best global employees had been deployed to work for local partners, frequently non-governmental organizations (NGOs), in locations such as Ghana, Tanzania, Romania, Philippines and Vietnam. Each team had worked for a month on projects as diverse as digitizing the supply chain of the Ghanaian handicraft sector to establishing a strategic plan for the Davao City Chamber of Commerce in the Philippines that would maximize job creation among locally owned small businesses. IBM had high hopes for this program, both as a way to deliver social value to emerging markets, but also as an important strategic business initiative. As globalization had proceeded, IBM CEO Samuel J. Palmisano had focused extensively on making global integration successful and how the new business environment would require globalizing IBM from the “bottom-up.” The CSC was...
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...modernization and rapid technological innovation, one can communicate in the world through some forms of automation. This norm gave companies idea to reduce expenditures specifically labour. Nowadays, it is common for organizations to outsource a service provider to do work for them. The process is what actually known as Business Process Outsourcing. Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) is the contracting of a specific business function to a third-party service provider as a cost-saving measure of companies such as IT-related services, financial and administration (F&A) processes, human resources functions, call center and customer service activities and accounting or payroll. BPO is often divided into two categories: back office outsourcing which performs non-core processes that is actually necessary to a company but do not provide any intrinsic value to the company’s growth such as billing or purchasing; and front office outsourcing which inclined to performing core processes that directly benefit the organization in growing, generating revenue and establishing itself in the marketplace, included here are customer-related services such as marketing or tech support. Business Process Outsourcing is also distinct from where the external service provider locates. BPO that is contracted outside a company’s own country is known as offshore outsourcing while nearshore outsourcing happens when a company contracted a specific task to its neighbouring country and BPO that is contracted with...
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...Contents 1. Introduction 2 Company: IBM 2 Country: Dubai 3 2. IBM's objective 3 3. IBM Business Environment 4 Political: 4 Economic: 5 Social: 7 Technology: 8 4. Cultural factors and company strategy 10 Importance and information as part of IBM's marketing strategy: 11 The global environment with IBM's market planning: 13 5. Conclusion 13 6. References 14 1. Introduction Company: IBM IBM is a global leader in services of Technology Company which is active in 180 countries. IBM began his career in the early 20th century, the name Computing Tabulating-Recording Company. Now, IBM is providing services to the aerospace, defense, automotive, banking, construction, electronics, retail and telecommunications. IBM's contribution to the development of computer technology is higher than other companies. This report clearly describes changes in five IBM Business Environment. This report briefly reviews the various steps that led to changes in the world. These include the environment in earlier versions of IBM, which partly explains IBM, the type of activities, products and policies. Second, changes in the business environment for micro and macro environment, the effect of environmental factors. Third resolution SWOT analysis mortar disputes and analysis of five forces model Porter, contributing to the achievement of the company and, finally, a detailed analysis of economic developments and the recommendations, some better suggestions to help...
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...markets desktop and notebook computers, workstations, servers, storage drives, IT management software, and other related products and services. Lenovo was incorporated in Hong Kong in 1988 under its previous name, Legend.[1] Lenovo's principal operations are located in Morrisville, North Carolina, Beijing, China and Singapore. (Global Headquarters : The United States Raleigh ( North Carolina Research Triangle Park ) (The main R & D centers: Beijing, China, Japan and Japan, Shanghai, Shenzhen and the United States, North Carolina, Raleigh (Production base and assembly facilities: Beijing, Shanghai, Huiyang and Shenzhen; India's Pontiac Lee (Pondicherry,); Monterrey, Mexico (Monterrey,); the United States Greensboro (in Greensboro); and in the global contract manufacturing and OEM Lenovo is the world's second largest PC maker and markets the ThinkPad line of notebook PCs and ThinkCentre line of desktops. These brands became part of Lenovo's offerings after its 2005 acquisition of IBM's personal computer business. Lenovo also sells the IdeaPad line of notebook computers. Lenovo markets its products directly to consumers, small to medium size businesses, and large enterprises, as well as through online sales, company-owned stores, chain retailers, and major technology distributors and vendors. 1.Joint ventures, mergers and acquisitions Lenovo made its acquisition of IBM's personal computer business amid a backlash in Congress against Chinese companies trying to purchase American...
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...Journal of International Business Studies (2007) 38, 573–577 & 2007 Academy of International Business All rights reserved 0047-2506 $30.00 www.jibs.net AN EXECUTIVE’S NOTE Lenovo: an example of globalization of Chinese enterprises Chuan Zhi Liu CEO and President, Legend Holdings Ltd Journal of International Business Studies (2007) 38, 573–577. doi:10.1057/palgrave. jibs.8400281 Online publication date: 17 May 2007 Introduction by Rosalie L Tung, Simon Fraser University Mr. Chuanzhi Liu is President, CEO and co-founder of Legend Holdings Ltd. Lenovo belongs to the Legend Holdings Group. Lenovo is the world’s third largest manufacturer of personal computers (PCs), after Dell and Hewlett-Packard (HP). In 2002 the Chinese government announced its ‘go global’ policy by encouraging Chinese companies with the capabilities and know-how to expand abroad. Lenovo, as a leader in the IT sector, responded to this government initiative. In 2003 Legend adopted a new brand name, Lenovo. The first two characters, ‘Le’, were taken from ‘Legend’, to reflect its heritage, and ‘novo’ (‘new’ in Latin) to signify the ‘spirit of innovation’ that is central to the company’s mission.1 Mr. Liu is the principal architect behind his company’s 2004 acquisition of IBM’s PC Division (PCD), and hence is commonly referred to in the press as the ‘Man who acquired IBM PC’ (Shenzen Daily, 2004). Even though the size of the acquisition was relatively small in the broader context of global mergers...
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...Jeopardy! FPO Virginia M. Romett y Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer $59 21% $108 10% $32 $30 2000 2013 2000 2013 $16.28 2000 2013 2015 IBM will remain a leader in high-performance and high-end systems, storage and cognitive computing, and we will continue to invest in R&D for advanced semiconductor technology. The second challenge involves the world’s growth markets. While IBM’s growth in Latin America and Middle East and Africa was strong, enterprise spending slowed in other key growth markets. We are intensifying focus on new growth opportunities. Overall, the opportunity in the world’s growth markets remains attractive. On being essent ial As we have learned throughout our history, the key to success is getting the big things right, innovating and investing accordingly, and challenging our organization, operations and especially our culture to adapt. I am deeply proud of the global IBM team for bringing us here, and I am grateful to you, our shareholders, for your unwavering support. I hope you share our excitement about your company’s path and the shared opportunity we have, together, to build a brighter future on a smarter planet. Virginia M. Rometty Chairman, President and Chief Executive Of cer When you do all those things, you do more than stay abreast of change. You lead it. You invent entirely new capabilities— such as cognitive computing and Watson. You translate these innovations into sustainable economic value—such as building...
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