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When Gerstner accepted the top job at IBM a decade ago, the media and company insiders were speculating about his new mission statement for the ailing information technology firm...
These guiding principles led IBM from near-bankruptcy in 1993 to an over $85 billion corporation today, said its former CEO Louis V. Gerstner Jr. last night at the Kennedy School of Government’s ARCO Forum...
Notably, he reversed a plan to break up IBM into smaller companies, which he said was the most important business decision he has ever made...
...really don’t think that there would be an IBM if it was split up,” Gerstner said. “Some of the media thought that I really lost my mind, but [thinking] as a customer, it was an easy decision...
...years ago, IBM researcher Ismail Haritaoglu found himself at a Tokyo train station, unable to make heads or tails of the kanji lettering in the posted routes and timetables. Next time he'll be ready. His InfoScope snaps a picture of a street sign and ships it over a wireless network to a remote computer that extracts the text and beams back a translation--all in less than 15 seconds. Haritaoglu is working on a similar service for GPS-equipped cell phones that would offer travel tips. INVENTOR IBM Almaden Research Center AVAILABILITY Prototype TO LEARN MORE www.almaden.ibm.com