Samuel J. Palmisano
Samuel J. Palmisano
Samuel J. Palmisano was president and chief executive officer of IBM until January 2012. He also served as Chairman of the company until October 1, 2012...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionBusinessman
Date of Birth30 July 1951
CountryUnited States of America
academic billions combined decade dollars driven ibm investing patents people rather top year
IBM isn't investing billions of dollars every year into research and development - and winning more patents than our top 10 competitors combined for more than a decade - as an academic exercise. But research is now being driven much more by what people need rather than just by what is possible.
thinking missing ships
I think everybody at IBM knows the early 1990s disaster, and its in our fabric that you cannot miss the ship.
hard-work clients integrating
Enterprise is hard work. You have to integrate the client with the optimized systems of all the servers and software.
differences impact people
If we overregulate, over control, impose too many burdens and too much bureaucracy - or if we do it across the board, without taking into account the differences among businesses and their relative impact on society - that could make people risk-averse and dampen the entrepreneurial spirit.