IBM: The Rise and Fall and Reinvention of a Global Icon (History of Computing)

A former IBM employee offers an authoritative history of the successes and failures of one of the most influential American companies of the last century.

For decades, IBM shaped the way the world did business. IBM products were in every large organization, and IBM corporate culture established a management style that was imitated by companies around the globe. It was “Big Blue”-an icon. And yet over the years, IBM has gone through both failure and success, surviving flatlining revenue and f...