Yesterday, Nick Donofrio gave a session on innovation at IBM Belgium.
I really had the feeling to be in front of a legend. For 44 years he has been working on the most innovative IBM projects : the transition to CMOS, the System/360, the RS6000... He has surfed all the important IT waves with style.
Mr Donofrio will retire in October this year and he mainly emphasized on what makes IBM a great company :
- IBM values
- IBM's strenght : the combination of Systems, Software and Services which allow to create value
- IBM's strategy
- Focus on open technologies and high value solutions
- Deliver innovation and integration to our clients
- Become the premier globally integrated company
Being global is an important topic for IBM, according to Nick Donofrio. And indeed IBM has lauched many initiatives around globalization:
- the global innovation outlook with global topics on the agenda like Water, Security and the society in a global world...
- the global citizenship portfolio which will provide IBMers with valuable tools to enhance their expertise and careers within a globally integrating economy.
To start and to finish his speech Mr Donofrio encouraged the IBMers to anticipate change and to use change as an opportunity. Or even better : create the change. He explained how his father created change for his family. He wanted the best for Nick and created the change by setting hard work as a mean to reach a better education level. (Was it a success ? Apparently yes.) The only explanation for this move was : "If nothing changes, nothing changes". Be an actor of change.
And for IBM one of the current changes is... globalization.
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