ethics
08-03-2005, 11:35 PM
Unless you have been in the same caves as Osama bin Hiding, you'd know that IBM was bought out by Lenovo, a Chinese company.
Wired, once again, has a fascinating feature (http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/13.07/lenovo.html) on the entire history -- and where China wants to go with it. Something eerie caught my eye though and something more of you would find very foreign. Check out the 23% ownership of the company. ;)
http://a1112.g.akamai.net/7/1112/492/20040528/www.wired.com/wired/archive/13.07/images/FF_142_ibm5_f.gif
Another side note caught my eye here:
he US will no doubt continue to outsource manufacturing and technical jobs overseas. In turn, those overseas nations will seek the experience and know-how of US managers and decide to outsource their leadership here. A concurrent example: Sony this year named Howard Stringer as its first non-Japanese chair and CEO of Sony Corp. All of which shines a spotlight on an extraordinary reality: American executives in New York will mentor Chinese executives as they run a largely Chinese company that wants to model itself on a Japanese corporation in order to challenge two American competitors, with the ultimate mission of helping China achieve its patriotic goal of kicking butt in international business.
If that's not globalization, what is?
Now, let me go on the record and state that I think China will be successful with this because it IS BUYING the US Management. They are also keeping the HQ in the US (NY). They have ways to go to learn but once they do...
Wired, once again, has a fascinating feature (http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/13.07/lenovo.html) on the entire history -- and where China wants to go with it. Something eerie caught my eye though and something more of you would find very foreign. Check out the 23% ownership of the company. ;)
http://a1112.g.akamai.net/7/1112/492/20040528/www.wired.com/wired/archive/13.07/images/FF_142_ibm5_f.gif
Another side note caught my eye here:
he US will no doubt continue to outsource manufacturing and technical jobs overseas. In turn, those overseas nations will seek the experience and know-how of US managers and decide to outsource their leadership here. A concurrent example: Sony this year named Howard Stringer as its first non-Japanese chair and CEO of Sony Corp. All of which shines a spotlight on an extraordinary reality: American executives in New York will mentor Chinese executives as they run a largely Chinese company that wants to model itself on a Japanese corporation in order to challenge two American competitors, with the ultimate mission of helping China achieve its patriotic goal of kicking butt in international business.
If that's not globalization, what is?
Now, let me go on the record and state that I think China will be successful with this because it IS BUYING the US Management. They are also keeping the HQ in the US (NY). They have ways to go to learn but once they do...