If my Dad had ponied up 50 bucks in 1963, and I'd taken a pre-emptive page out of my son's book and bought a few shares of IBM, I'd be on Easy Street today.
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As a 16 year IBM veteran, I found your overview of IBM and its strategy to be spot on.
There were a few good points: I appreciate IBM indexing its financial statements by category.
It underscores an idea that my colleagues and I in IBM's business analytics consulting practice have been discussing with clients for more than a year.
Everyone running money then owned tons of IBM as a growth stock, but nobody I knew dared to predict that IBM would one day sell at book value, or that the market would sell at eight times earnings in 1974.
In fact I took the time to do something I seldom do and that was to follow many of the links and to actually watch one of the IBM Webcasts to see if I could get a better understanding of their capabilities to know how to answer the question you posed.
Thinking this was hugely inefficient, I appropriated an IBM Selectric typewriter that was destined for the trash heap.
Instead of peppering Watson with questions, I spoke with IBM researcher Eric Brown, one of the lead scientists on the project.
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My co-researchers and I in our IBM Institute for Business Value study, Collective Intelligence: Capitalizing on the Crowd, we have pointed to intrinsic motivation as well as a strong factor to drive not just individual work but collective crowdsourcing.
So, I yanked my IBM (nyse: IBM - news - people) Thinkpad out of its docking station in my office, stuffed it into my old leather briefcase, gathered up my family (actually my wife did that part) and raced for the airport.
The class always went silent whenever I taught the classic IBM structured sales call.
During the 80s, I remember learning that IBM held the original patents for stuff like DMA and interrupt controllers, 1 which surprised me because by that time those things were like oxygen: just a standard part of every computer in the world.
Prior to becoming an equity analyst I spent sixteen years at IBM in a variety of sales and manufacturing positions.
Within the technology sector I expect more interest in IBM and Microsoft, obviously multinationals, but very inexpensive properties with innate capacity for financial engineering, namely stock buybacks, rising dividends and fill-in acquisitions.
Twice I've tried to convert to Windows, lured, as I recall, by a sleek IBM Thinkpad.
For much of my professional career (IBM PC, Dell, Power Computing) I competed against Apple.
My thing is to teach people how to choose stocks for themselves, rather than specific recommendations, but I would definitely say go to IBM to get some information about cloud technology and learn about it and then move on from there.
He doesn't bring good news: The problem is in the firmware of the display controller, but he adds that he's already talked to IBM, has arranged to have an address box sent to me so I can send the laptop in to Big Blue, and hands me a slip of paper with my IBM work order number on it.
Few properties that I own do all this, barring IBM and News Corporation.
This is the same for much of the truths about leadership I had been taught as a new IBM manager.
Two days later I was sitting on the bed in my hotel room, looking down on revelers in Times Square, as I sat on hold awaiting advice from IBM technical support.
In a previous article I explored how the activity templates in IBM software can be used to capture business processes ( The Benefits of Enterprise Social Media) and how SAP is structuring collaboration for decision making ( Giving Shape to Collaboration Tech).
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Let me share two examples of ideas that I must put aside from my days at IBM in the 1980s.
In 2008, I asked him about a pilot project underway between IBM and Linden Labs to build a secure enclave in Second Life for companies to conduct business.
As I previously wrote in Forbes, companies ranging from IBM to Google to Microsoft are racing to combine natural language processing with huge Big Data systems in the cloud that we can access from anywhere.
While Willie Nelson sang "Me and Bobby McGee, " Will and I enjoyed talking to former 49ers quarterback Steve Young and IBM CEO Sam Palmisano.
At this firm I had adopted the CEO sales approach used very effectively by IBM and McKinsey, developing a relationship with the CEO who then sends you to see other C-Suite executives about possible engagements.
I'm sitting in an all-day mobility confab with other analysts at IBM in Littleton, Mass.
When I arrived on Wall Street, the big names in the index embraced DuPont, IBM and Union Carbide.
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