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<text id=91TT2730>
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Dec. 09, 1991: Business Notes:Computers
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<history>
TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1991
Dec. 09, 1991 One Nation, Under God
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<source>Time Magazine</source>
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BUSINESS, Page 59
Business Notes
COMPUTERS
End of the Blue Monolith
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<p> At IBM, breaking up is hard to do. The world's largest
computer maker has restructured itself several times in the past
five years in an attempt to operate more efficiently. Last week
the company went much further, announcing the most radical changes
in its 78-year history. Virtually all divisions in IBM, ranging
from those that manufacture mainframe computers to those that
produce small PCs, will be spun off into decentralized units and
given an unprecedented amount of autonomy. Each of these
subsidiary like divisions will be free to develop its own
marketing strategies, determine salaries and report profits and
losses to the public. Some may even be sold to investors and
become public companies, with IBM maintaining a minority
interest. The goal, says chairman John Akers, is to unshackle
IBM from its stifling bureaucracy and enable its separate
divisions to compete more nimbly against an increasingly diverse
group of rivals. To help reduce operating costs, IBM announced
it will spend some $3 billion to eliminate 20,000 of its 353,000
jobs worldwide in 1992, following a similar cut this year.
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