IBM can dance like an elephant. . 1993, IBM announced that John Akers, the company's chairman and CEO, decided to retire. At that time, computer prophets on Wall Street and Silicon Valley had a lot of comments on IBM, the most prominent of which was probably a book called Computer War, which held a rather pessimistic argument about IBM's future: "It is almost impossible for IBM to continue to be the main force of industry. Bill Gates, a software giant that everyone in the industry loves, hates and refuses to accept, once carelessly said that IBM "will close down in a few years". "IBM's bet at that time was that in the next 10 years, customers would gradually value companies that can provide total solutions-that is, technical solutions that can integrate computer components provided by various suppliers, and (more importantly) companies that can integrate technology into an enterprise process. After several years of active integration, "Who says elephants can't dance? "Mr. Guo Shina, CEO of IBM, not only saved the huge IBM itself, but also awakened thousands of large enterprise groups in Qian Qian all over the world. Enter these words in Google, and it takes only 0.08 seconds to search for 186000 related messages. In addition to IBM, there are many well-known enterprises such as Sony, Samsung, Petrochemical, Changhong and Lenovo. Large enterprises have established in-laws with the dancing elephant. Abstract source: /htmlcontent.asp