Expand Your Global Business Through Constant Reinvention

Do it the IBM way:

What started as a business making clocks, scales and cheese slicers has evolved into a global enterprise that’s responsible for a blur of innovations that include ATMs, mainframes, mini-computers, supercomputers, memory chips, the now obsolete typewriter, the barcode, and even that thin magnetic strip you see on your credit card.

Thanks to the Internet (and IBM), our world is not only becoming smaller but smarter too.

Read more about how IBM is transitioning from a multinational corporation to a globally integrated enterprise.  See if what they are doing applies to your global small business.  For example, where is your best work being done?  Put yourself and your business in the place with the most opportunity -- wherever that might be.

Thinking Big

A Smarter City Vision: Ho Chi Minh

Follow the progress of all IBM Corporate Service Corps teams.

On this one, Michele Grieshaber shares her team's vision: Ho Chi Minh City

Posted by: The Global Small Business Blog (a GlobeTrade.com company)

Banks on Wheels: Bankmobiles

Instead of Good Humor or Bookmobile trucks, in this case we have what are called Good Mobile Bank trucks ... and they are doing a whole lot more good for so many people who need access to capital in remote parts of the world.

Read more about this here. This bank "gets it."

Illustration credit here.

Posted by: The Global Small Business Blog

Forces Shaping the Future World of Business

IBM conducts annual global research on the evolving role of c-level executives in the decade of smart.

They also interviewed 3600 students around the world on their views of forces shaping the future of business. Worth a look.

A snapshot of insights:

You have to base decisions in facts not instinct, but you have to act rapidly which involves a little bit of experience and trusting in yourself. ~ Student Perspective: Mexico

My generation has a completely different view and understanding of unbounded, unlimited social connectivity, science and technology and cultural conglomeration that leads to more open, interconnected ambitions. ~ Student Perspective: U.S.A

I think it's high time to manipulate as much data as possible in order to understand this changing world in a better way. ~ Student Perspective: Argentina

Posted by: The Global Small Business Blog