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 PAGE \* MERGEFORMAT 8 ‘Breakthrough’: strategic management find the North Star Enterprises IBM’s rise from the ashes of the Enlightenment In 1993, Gerstner took over IBM, as an outsider, this is an amazing sound of Big Blue into the abyss in the past to bring its successful culture and traditions of their response time has become a great obstacle to the new economic environment. At this point, Gerstner commitment to save the symbolic significance of this with a U.S. company. However, when the end of 1994, IBM accumulated losses amounted to 15 billion U.S. dollars, over the previous three years, the total loss, IBM’s market value plunged to 105 billion U.S. dollars from 32 billion U.S. dollars. Almost everyone agrees that IBM needs of long-term planning needs radical change. But Gerstner has declared to the press: ‘IBM is now without long-term planning, IBM needs most is a series of the most practical, market-oriented, high-performance strategy. ‘ Nine years later, Gerstner succeeded in bringing IBM to re-adjust its strategy and corporate culture, will be established as an IBM service-oriented technology companies, with emphasis on implementation. It is the importance of strategy and execution to allow Big Blue to stand in the summit of the industry. Strategy is not an afterthought Enterprises must establish a clear vision of the mission to find the North Star development of enterprises, leading businesses healthy and rapid development. Such as the Lenovo Group is set ‘processing computers, Mao Gongji growth path,’ learning ‘the length of others’, and then through independent innovation, to establish its own brand and marketing network, bigger and stronger and embark on the road Mao Gongji , or even acquisition of IBM’s PC business. From the perspective of enterprise development, strategy of great significance. 1. Make sure your company’s overall objectives and the allocation of resources so that employees understand their should be completed within the