Essays on International Business Machines

Over the past 25 years, IBM has been divesting from a number of its core businesses. IBM’s core businesses have over a similar period been faced with numerous challenges. As a result, sales and revenue have been declining over the years. However, the paradox of all this is that despite the declining sales and revenue, IBM’s stock value has been rising, a welcome situation for its shareholders (Henschen). The increase in share value despite a shrinking IBM illustrates a shift in the evaluation of companies over the years. Focus has shifted from a company’s value based ...

The main aim of businesses is to accomplish their mission (Ireland 34). The process of moving towards the achievement of its mission requires organisations to apply effective strategies that facilitate an effective response to the range of factors that may affect such objectives. Unforeseen factors may cause devastating impacts on the wellbeing of an organisation. In this case, therefore, utilising appropriate strategies to deal effectively with the plausible future events is necessary. Planned opportunism is the systematic process that assists in the recognition of the impending changes and assuring the opportunities that such changes may provide, thus supporting the ...

Cross-Cultural Perspectives

Based in the US, and headquartered in New York, International Business Machines Corporation (IBM) has a global presence. Since it was founded, IBM has always embraced a culture of diversity and inclusion. IBM take diversity as a strategy and they link diversity to their business goal (Thomas, 2004). IBM has a strong commitment to driving a cultural change through its innovative policies and principles as one way of providing employees with a workplace where they feel valued and welcomed for who they are. The company operates in 170 countries spanning nine time zones where more than 70 languages are ...

Introduction

Report’s aim Comprehensive analysis of a company is crucial for decision making regarding its inclusion in a portfolio. That requires forecasting a company’s performance to estimate the expected value of the stock and comparing it with the current market price so as to decide whether it is overvalued or undervalued. In that view, this analysis seeks to analyze the IMB Company with application of the Discounted Cash Flows method as well as WACC. With the values calculated, the value per share is compared with the current market price to make recommendations whether the stock is a buy, ...

Introduction

A database refers to a collection of organized information. The purpose of this configuration is to enable the easy access, management and updating of data. Databases can be grouped according to the content types they hold. They can be full-text, bibliographic databases and images. In the field of computing, databases get classified according to their approach in terms of organization. The relational database is the most common approach. It is a tabular database whereby data gets refined so as to be organized and accessed in multiple ways. Object-oriented programming databases are congruent with data defined in object subclasses and ...