Celebración 100 años de IBM: Junio 15

 Esta semana celebramos los 100 años de IBM. Qué mejor manera que celebrar con servicio, empleados de todo el mundo (170 paises) estaremos trabajando un día completo en servicio a la comunidad.
¡Apúntense, vale la pena!

 

IBM at 100

 

My Fellow IBMers,

Today begins a historic week for our company. Over the next several days, across more than 170 countries around the world, we will be marking IBM's centennial as an enterprise.
I want to thank every one of you for all you have done to get us here, and for all you do every day to make IBM the great and distinctive company it is.
In the week ahead we will reflect upon the many dimensions of IBM's unique stature, accomplishments and character. Wednesday, June 15 – the last day of our first 100 years – will be a high point of our centennial Celebration of Service. Then on June 16, the first day of our second century, we will mark the occasion by looking at IBM's legacy of innovation, global impact and business leadership, and most importantly, by looking ahead at the many ways we are working to build a smarter planet. These themes are also captured in the book Making the World Work Better: The Ideas that Shaped a Century and a Company, which will be distributed to all eligible IBMers.
All of our Centennial Week will be captured here on w3. I urge you to stop by whenever you can to see what your colleagues are doing – and also to share your own experiences and perceptions with each other, your clients, family and friends.
Amid all the congratulations and the pride we justly feel as an enterprise, I hope each of us can also take away something more personal from this week. I hope every IBMer has a chance to reflect on what it means as a professional and as a global citizen to be at this institution, at this moment – not just for the work you do today, but for your life's work.
The world is seeing us today with fresh eyes – thanks most importantly to the performance of our business and the transformation of our company over the past decade, amplified by our Centennial, the achievement of our Jeopardy!-winning computer Watson, and our ongoing Smarter Planet agenda.
I myself feel incredibly fortunate for the chance our anniversary affords to increase IBM's success going forward, and to expand the impact we make as IBMers on the world, now and for future generations.
We've got an exciting second century ahead of us, and it begins this week. I look forward to making the most of it with you, my fellow IBMers.
 
Sam Palmisano

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Links:
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IBM’s 100 Icons of Progress