Published via Inbox: 2013-05-29 19:45:15
May 29, 2013 12:45
Companies must keep reinventing themselves for higher value, she said, creating new markets by buyer, category and geography and ultimately reinventing their core franchises, particularly in the technology industry with its cycles of “violent innovation and commoditization.”
People have to reinvent themselves too, she said, although some can’t.In the last decade, IBM has divested $15 billion in value and acquired 140 companies; it has also committed to spending $20 billion on acquisitions by 2015.
She said acquisitions for IBM are strategic and are focused on intellectual property because “I’ve got a distribution system that goes to 170 countries, and if I acquire properly I can scale…You’re buying a tested business model. That’s one of the great advantages.”
My Two Cents
Why is IBM great? Leadership is one of the first reasons IBM is great. Ginni Rometty (already tops the list of great leaders) and Sam Palmisano has topped the list of great CEO's navigating IBM through one of its most dangerous transitions.
The Clayton Christensen Institute, formerly Innosight Institute, has published three papers describing the rise of K−12 blended learning—that is, formal education programs that combine online learning and brick-and-mortar schools. This fourth paper is the first to analyze blended learning through the lens of disruptive innovation theory to help people anticipate and plan for the likely effects of blended learning on the classrooms of today and schools of tomorrow. The paper includes the following sections:
