IBM公司介绍 英文（不要网上直接翻译的）

Thomas John Watson, was born on December 17, 1874, in New York City, USA, after graduated from Elmira University he worked as a register in  a cash company for many years; in 1914, he entered the meter watch company , And gradually promoted to a supervisor. In 1924, Watson renamed the company (CER) as International Business Machines Corporation (IBM).

Watson Junior is the second son of the old Watson, after graduating from college he went IBM as a salesman there, an he was promoted to deputy general manager later, in 1952 he took over the general manager from the old Watson's hands .

According to the athority economy journal Happiness: IBM's profit was $ 5.488 billion in 1983, ranking first among Western companies; profit in 1984 was $ 6.6 billion, reelections the number one in the US. The magazine selected the 1983/1984 US top ten best companies, IBM scored the highest, ranked the first. In 1985, the United States selected of the United States the greatest impact on the history of the ten entrepreneurs, Thomas Watson was second only below the Car king Ford, oil king Rockefeller, steel king Carnegie and ranked fourth. Therefore, Watson and his son were known as the "king of modern enterprises."

IBM's former general manager, Thomas Watson junior, said that the company grew up  to the nation's outstanding companyduring on the first half of the twentieth century in an atmosphere of "a culture of worship". This atmosphere dates back to 1914, when Watson's father (big Thomas Watson) was a general manager of a small company that was struggling to survive. At that time, big Thomas consciously began to create a dedicated and dedicated company. Watson covered slogans on the wall: "Time is never going back"; "There is no eternal thing"; "We can never be complacent"; "What we are selling is service"; "The company is known by its people". He has done strict regulation of the behavior of the individual - he required the sales staff to wear neatly, with dark work clothes, he encouraged marriage (in his view, married people work harder, and more loyal to the company, because they have to feed their families) prohibt smoking and alcoholism. He also developed a training program, to instill the company's newly hired personnel in ideas, and strive to recruit young and promising new people, adhere to the principle of rigorous practice through the promotion of talent. Later, he founded the International Business Machines Corporation to operate the township club, mainly to encourage international business machine company personnel in the internal friendship, rather than with external contacts.

Similar to Nordstrom, International Business Machines is looking for a typical employee model that embodies the company's style of thought - placing their names and photographs along with their advanced deeds on the company's publications. Some example is also glorious to be sung into songs. As with Nordstrom, the International Business Machines Corporation emphasizes the importance of personal effort and innovation in the context of collective efforts.

IBM is also a highly respected company.

One of the reasons for being respected is the ability to lead the industrial revolution several times in the course of nearly a hundred years, especially in the IT industry, to develop a number of standards and to help customers succeed. In addition, the company has been among the top 500 in the world. More importantly, the reason for its respect is that IBM's history of nearly a hundred years, has always adhere to the "Watson philosophy."

When the IBM company was founded in 1914, the old Thomas Watson developed the Code of Conduct for the company, which kept in mind that every action and policy was directly influenced by the three criteria. Watson philsophy made the contribution to the company' s success is greater than the power of technological innovation, marketing skills, or great financial resources.  

It mainly include:

1, must respect the individual.

2, must be given the best possible customer service.

3, must pursue excellent work performance.

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