Read the IBM Case Study and answer the questions below using this week’s required readings as a resource. Support your answers and cite any reference used for this assignment:

September 7, 2023September 7, 2023 Discipline: Innovation and Technology

Read the IBM Case Study and answer the questions below using this week’s required readings as a resource. Support your answers and cite any reference used for this assignment:

Kanter, R. M. (2009). IBM in the 21st century: The coming of the globally integrated enterprise: Revised version. Harvard Business School Case, 308–405.(I have copied the material from the paper and made a doc file from it.)


Address the following key points in your paper:

  1. Use the four tests for deciding whether a company is ripe for strategic renewal (Binns et al., 2014) to analyze IBM’s position in the late 1980s and early 1990s (the time before Louis Gerstner got to IBM). Feel free to bring additional resources and references into your discussion.
  2. Identify five core elements in IBM’s journey to refresh and boost its capabilities to become an enterprise of the 21st century. Explain how each element affected IBM in reinventing its business model.
  3. What is an ideal future condition for IBM? Prepare an abstract of your argument.


Your paper should be between 4 and 6 pages in length and use appropriate scholarly citations and references as well as proper APA format. Be sure to support your answers and cite any references used.

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