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Lessons from IBM for Google, Amazon and Facebook

  • Written by James Cortada, Senior Research Fellow, Charles Babbage Institute, University of Minnesota
IBM has experience that will be relevant for the future of technology.Alexander Tolstykh/Shutterstock.com

It’s impressive when companies last for decades – or even more than a century – and especially so when they’re in a fast-changing industry like computer technology. IBM, which traces its roots to the 1880s, grew from...

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