1. IBM Global Services
Sam Palmisano
2009 Revenue: $55 billion
IBM Global Services is the professional services arm of IBM,
including management consulting, systems integration and application
management services.
At IBM’s CIO Leadership Exchange in Barcelona, Spain, CEO Sam
Palmisano offered these remarks: “As our planet becomes instrumented,
interconnected and intelligent, the computing model is evolving
to support it. Think of it as the industrialization of IT. Over the past
generation, our digital infrastructures have become very complex and
inefficient, so now we’re optimizing them through automation, creating
systems that are highly tuned to the specific workloads they run.”
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