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Visit of Nick Donofrio at IBM Belgium
Yesterday, Nick Donofrio gave a session on innovation at IBM Belgium. I really had the feeling to be in front of a legend. For 44 years he has been working on the most innovative IBM projects : the transition to CMOS, the System/360, the RS6000... He has surfed all the important IT waves with style. Mr Donofrio will retire in October this year and he mainly emphasized on what makes IBM a great company :
Being global is an important topic for IBM, according to Nick Donofrio. And indeed IBM has lauched many initiatives around globalization:
To start and to finish his speech Mr Donofrio encouraged the IBMers to anticipate change and to use change as an opportunity. Or even better : create the change. He explained how his father created change for his family. He wanted the best for Nick and created the change by setting hard work as a mean to reach a better education level. (Was it a success ? Apparently yes.) The only explanation for this move was : "If nothing changes, nothing changes". Be an actor of change. And for IBM one of the current changes is... globalization. About Nick Donofrio The postings on this site are my own and don’t necessarily represent IBM’s positions, strategies or opinions |