IBM how the world's most successful corporation in managed

• Main Author: Mercer, David Stuart (Author)
• Format: Book
• Language: English
• Published: London Kogan Page 1987; ©1987
• Subjects: United States > International Business Machines Corporation > Computer industries
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• Physical Description: 306 pages illustrations 24 cm
• ISBN: 1850912874; 781850912873

The prime objective of this book is to give an insight into the management style that has made IBM the most successful company in the world. It attempts to draw out some lessons that might be more generally applicable in other companies, and in the process also throws some light on what has made the Japanese corporations so successful; for, as will be seen later, it is likely that IBM was also one of the first models for their all-conquering management style. The importance of IBM's role in the creation of the 'Japanese miracle' is not just its historical significance. It also has a particular importance even now, when so many companies are striving to match the Japanese performance. For, if nothing else, it shows that these apparently alien philosophies are not unique to a Zen oriented culture, but are just as applicable to the less spiritual values of the Western hemisphere. Most important, it provides a usable model of the management style, and one which is couched in the culturally more understandable terms of the Western management idioms (and is not confused or camouflaged by the later irrelevant Japanese accretions).