IBM's Role in Shaping the Future World

In this volitile evironment, a lot of the enterprises, especially the large ones, might prefer to be more conservative and adopted a wait-and-see attitude for next step. We cannot say IBM is totally immune from this external evironment, but what IBM has strived for years prepares itself well for future growth and remain sound and competitive in current economic volatility. Let's see the new theme of IBM's development this year -- "Smarter Planet". You can find numerous concrete examples under this concept it can impact almost every aspect of our daily life: food quality and safety, traffic reduction, energy saving, healthcare efficiency, workforce productivity, enterprise efficiency, new generation of IT infrastructure. To put it simple, IBM is help improving a lot of things in the world that we take for granted in a revolutionary way. It's amazing when you watch the videos about "smarter planet" case stories and have the pictures in your mind about the cool life in the near future.

IBM's business direction turns out to be highly in line with the priorities of the new president of the US. From the speech of IBM CEO Sam Palmisano when invited to the White House, we can see the connection between building a smarter infrastructure and smarter planet with the opportunity to help the nation out of the current economic crisis.