With:

Dhimanjyoti Choudhury

Paran Goswami

Uzzal Buragohain

Dipjyoti Nayak

Kishore Kumar Saharia

Khanindra Bhusan Mahanta

Horendranath Gogoi

•IBM is the acronym of International Business

Machines Corporation.

• Founded in Endicott, New York, U.S. on June

16, 1911.

• Founder Thomas J. Watson and Charles

Ranlett Flint.

• Headquarters Armonk, New York, U.S.

• Deals mainly with manufacture and marketing of

computer hardware and software.

CHARLES RANLETT FLINT

THOMAS J WATSONJr.

THOMAS J WATSON Sr.

ON June, 1911 Charles Ranlett Flint established

CTR merging three companies.

Flint recruited Thomas J. Watson Sr. formerly of

National Cash Register Company to lead the

company in 1914.

Watson’s favourite slogan “THINK” became a

mantra to the employees and within 11 months of

joining he became the president of it.

During Watson’s first four years revenues more than

doubled to $9 million.

February 14, 1924; CTR renamed as International

Business Machines Corporation.

In 1963, IBM employees and computers helped

NASA track the orbital flight of Mercury astronaut.

On April, 1964 IBM announced the first computer

system family, the IBM system/360.

IBM’s closing value of $214 billion on September

29, 2011 surpassed Microsoft which was valued at

$213.2 billion.

IBM HEADQUARTERS

IN 1993Mr. Lou Gerstner: Revived IBM

Very well organised and

systematic management

system that takes care of

the entire IBM community.

The Forbes survey released

on the occasion of 100th

birthday of IBM in 2011, the

key to long term survival

was the policies of Mr. Lou

Gerstner

.

Radical Management

techniques were adopted.

Integrated management

IBM Hierarchy

Since 1914, CEO Thomas J. Watson boosted company spirit by creating employee sports teams, hosting family outings, and furnishing a company band.

In 1946, the company hired its first black salesman, 18 years before the Civil Rights Act of 1964. In 1947, IBM announced a Total and Permanent Disability Income Plan

I

RESEARCH AND INNOVATION

The Watson’s first scientific laboratory was founded at Colombia University in 1945.

In 1966 , IBM researcher Robert H. Dennardinvented Dynamic Random Access Memory(DRAM) cells.

IBM has been a leading proponent of Open source initiative and began to support Linux in 1998.

In 2013, Booz and Company placed IBM sixteenth among the 20 most innovative companies in the world.

Automatic Teller Machine (ATM)

Floppy disk

Hard disk drive

Electronic keypunch

Magnetic stripe card

Virtual Machine

Scanning tunnelling microscope

Universal Product Code (UPC)

Financial Swap

SABRE airlines reservation system

Watson artificial intelligence

Watson’s Artificial Intelligence, learns as it operates

BLUE GENE

ATM

DRAM HARD DISK

Service assessment for current post-sales support

Call-center support

Technical Support Center services (TSC)

Resource Management Center (RMC)

Central and depot services

Onsite support

GINNI ROMETTYPRESENT CHAIRMAN, PRESIDENT AND CEO

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