This is a history of IBM, a huge multinational firm, from its origins in the 1880s to the present. It demonstrates that this supplier of computers, software and information technology services played a profound role in shaping how other large organizations and economies evolved in the twentieth...

IBM has gone from a company with 60 billion in unprofitable revenue to a profitable 85 billion enterprise. IBM Global Services draws most of its revenue from helping businesses to do successfully what IBM has done: transform themselves. This book describes the practices that allowed IBM to...