Sales growth was slower than expected — and inflated by the depressed dollar overseas — at IBM last quarter. So Big Blue is reorganizing a bit. “IBM today is a company ready to focus more on opportunities than on threats,” said IBM chairman and CEO Samuel J. Palmisano in a speech earlier today at the company’s 2004 annual stockholders meeting in Providence, Rhode Island. IBM has revamped much of its sales and services organizations around 12 vertical industries, and the company has released software with specific functions for the energy, consumer-products and government sectors.
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IBM Reorganizes, Debuts New Version of WebSphere
Posted by: Gene J. Koprowski April 27, 2004 02:16 PMSales growth was slower than expected — and inflated by the depressed dollar overseas — at IBM last quarter. So Big Blue is reorganizing a bit. “IBM today is a company ready to focus more on opportunities than on threats,” said IBM chairman and CEO Samuel J. Palmisano in a speech earlier today at the company’s 2004 annual stockholders meeting in Providence, Rhode Island. IBM has revamped much of its sales and services organizations around 12 vertical industries, and the company has released software with specific functions for the energy, consumer-products and government sectors.