Tencent Technology News (Marchiano) Beijing time on December 19th News, according to foreign media reports, the 60-year-old IBM head Peng Ming Sheng (Sam Palmisano) is about to retire on New Year's Eve, the United States famous financial magazine "Barron's Weekly" Network Edition Saturday Tefa entitled "IBM Butler" of the manuscript review Peng Ming Sheng will bring the company
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IBM CEO (CEO) Peng Mingsheng in commemoration of the company's 100th-anniversary special edition Christmas card wrote: "Wish IBM continue to flourish in the next 100 years!"This greeting card also expresses the Common Voice of hundreds of thousands of IBM employees around the world over the past decade.
However, it is difficult to see Peng Mingsheng figure in the next 100 years of IBM Development:60-year-old Peng Mingsheng has reached the legal retirement age of IBM, and will officially be released on New Year's Eve. Before leaving office, Peng Mingsheng has found a new CEO election for the company: the current head of global sales of IBM, Virginia-Rometty (Virginia Rometty).）
In addition to being slightly modest in discussing his achievements at IBM, Mr. Peng is probably the least shy person in the world. He likes to talk and do things straight. Yet when it comes to what he has achieved during his tenure, he has insisted that the market's recognition of the company should be attributed to his colleagues. In fact, he simply called his decade in office“a hundred years of IBM's ordinary decade."
“A person can only briefly serve as the head of a well-known enterprise, so as long as the development of the company at the time of leaving than when he took over the situation better with a clear conscience, " said Peng Mingsheng."Peng Ming Sheng has been trying to do this through a variety of methods. During his tenure, Mr. Pengmingsheng stripped IBM of most of its loss-making computer hardware business, aggressively expanding its high-margin businesses, including software and services, and aggressively tapping fast-growing markets such as developing markets and urban digital systems.
Over the past decade, IBM's average earnings per share rose 21% to $ 11.52 per share in 2010. That increase is likely to double-digit growth again this year. Despite two major global economic downturns this year, IBM's range of financial data remains strong. The company's gross margin has increased this year, and margins have also risen.IBM's current brand value is second only to that of Coca-Cola. If you bought the company's shares when Louis Gerstner took over as IBM CEO in March 2002, the value of the shares you now hold has doubled.
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IBM is headquartered in Amonge, New York, United States, Peng Mingsheng office outside the corridor is decorated magnificently. By contrast, his meeting room is small and very simple to decorate. In an interview with Barron's weekly, Peng Ming Sheng always mentioned the interesting anecdotes that happened to him and pointed out the failure of the competition.
He was born in 1951 to an Italian-American family in Baltimore. His grandparents didn't speak English at all, his father owned a car repair shop, and his mother was a homemaker.
The future CEO had played saxophone and American football at school. In the football team, Peng Mingsheng as the center, mainly responsible for the responsibility to pass the quarterback. While he is often not seen in the game, this position is indeed one of the most important positions in rugby. The center needs to be physically strong, aggressive and tough.
After graduating from Johns Hopkins University in 1973, Mr. Penn turned down an invitation from the Oakland Raiders to work at IBM. He never regretted the choices he had made, and quickly became a rising star within IBM. He then served as a senior assistant to then-CEO John Akers and was a two-term head of the company in Japan. In the process, Mr. Peng met his current wife and had four children, all of whom are now adults.
In the 1980s, as PCs and servers began to replace large-scale computers, IBM also fell into development difficulties. The board then appointed Mr. Guo as the company'S CEO, the first to come from outside of IBM. After taking office, Mr. Guo made large-scale layoffs and began expanding his services business. At the time, Mr. Peng was responsible for IBM's Global Services, PC and server businesses. He was simply a "sales Wiz," and cleared the way for the multi-billion-dollar takeover deal that IBM later clandestinely made.
Since becoming CEO, Mr. Peng has been pushing for IBM to adopt Linux and expand its services business, as well as the acquisition of PricewaterhouseCoopers, a consulting firm. Peng Mingsheng then rationalized the management structure of IBM, reorganized the management team, and invited the whole company to participate in the three-day big discussion on IBM values called“Values Jam” on the intranet. With 50,000 employees, including CEOs, the discussion generated 9,300 ideas and even caused some confusion, but ultimately the "Values Jam" discussion produced 191 different ideas and ideas. In helping IBM rediscover its position in the high-margin business market, Mr. Peng has built a highly efficient management team and established a number of overseas operations. Now, Peng Mingsheng affable image is still widely popular with consumers.