IBM Watson: Uncover the Power of Cognitive Solutions

Your value will be not what you know; it will be what you share
- Ginni-Rometty Chairwoman, President, and CEO of IBM

She is the first female head of the company.

International Business Machines, or IBM, was founded in 1911. They were previously known as the Computing-Tabulating-Recording (C-T-R) Company.

Charles Ranlett Flint did not invent the C-T-R Company. Rather than that, it was developed through the consolidation of three companies founded in the late 1800s: the Computing Scale Company, the Tabulating Machine Company, and the Time Recording Company. The newly amalgamated corporation was headquartered in New York City and employed approximately 1,300 people.

During its early years, the C-T-R Company concentrated on accounting and calculating equipment, business time recorders, and mechanical punch card systems. It first focused on everyday office items rather than evolving into the invention-driven corporation that it eventually became.

In 1924, Thomas Watson became president and renamed the corporation International Business Machines, or IBM. Watson established IBM’s success over his first several years by focusing on business and marketing tactics, developing products tailored to individual customers’ needs, and extensively investing in the company’s sales staff.

History of IBM-Watson

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