Integrating IBM - can the sum exceed the value of the parts?Ovum PlcJanuary 18, 2007 24 Pages - SKU: OV1522795 |
| We are at the dawn of a new IBM - a company increasingly intent on integrating its traditionally disparate assets in a way that will deliver true business solutions, not just IT solutions. IBM aims to deliver these business solutions faster, more consistently, more reliably and, ideally, at lower total lifetime costs than competitive entries. It is working to achieve this integration through a combination of top-down and bottom-up integration initiatives that involve all its key operating groups - IBM Global Business Services, Software Group, Systems and Technology Group and Sales & Distribution.
If IBM achieves its objective, it will increasingly force competitors to play in accordance with the rules that IBM defines. If it doesn’t, it will open itself to more and more intense competitive attacks. However, regardless of how successful IBM’s integration initiative proves to be, competitors should consider themselves to be on notice: tomorrow’s IT solutions, business solutions and IT industry will be very different from those of today. |
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