IBM Corporation Middle East: Strategy and Governance Analysis

This report provides an analysis of the corporate strategy and governance of IBM Corporation in the Middle East. It examines the company's business plans, objectives, and the significance of its corporate governance strategy. The report includes a literature review exploring relevant research on corporate strategy, social responsibility, and governance. The methodology involves both secondary research, utilizing data sheets and articles, and primary research, including interviews and questionnaires with IBM managers and employees. A Gantt chart outlines the project's timeline, from initial review to final report completion. The report aims to evaluate IBM's current strategies and their impact on projects, assessing whether the company's objectives are SMART and highlighting the importance of corporate governance within the organization.

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Corporate strategy and governance
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Is Corporate Strategy and Governance playing an essential role in the case of
IBM Corporation, Middle East?
IBM is now of leading producer and seller of computer software, middleware, hardware and
delivers the hosting and services of consulting at the areas that range from nanotechnology and
mainframe computers. It is also an important research organization that holds records for maximum
United States patents that are generated though business for 27 years constantly as per the 2020
report. Their various innovations involve the ATM or automated teller machine, floppy disk, hard
disk drive, magnetic stripe card, relational database UPC barcode, DRAM or Dynamic Random
Access Memory and SQL programming language. Takreem El-Tohamy has been appointed as
general manager of their the Middle East and African branch during January in the year 2005. He
has held some primary leadership positions as his career at IBM has been going on. This includes the
Territory Executive for those centres. There he led their execution for small and medium
management strategy specifically of that region. The employees of IB has always been striving to
become essential and make a difference. At present, with the IBM.org this has been simpler than
previous for every people to have a positive type of social effect (IBM - United Arab Emirates
2020).
The following report will evaluate present business plans of IBM Corporation, Middle East
and its significance towards projects:
 The report would investigate the influence of corporate governance strategies of IBM
Corporation, Middle East.
 The study would also determine the objectives of IBM Corporation, Middle East and find out
whether they are SMART in nature.

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Importance of corporate governance strategy at IBM:
At IBM, the corporate governance strategy has been all about evaluating what has been
believed through the measure taken. This includes the example they set and priorities guiding IBM.
Literature review:
Hernandez and Menon (2019) demonstrate how one can see what the corporate social
strategy and governance looks in terms of practice. The article also evaluated ho IBM has been
integrating both business strategies and citizenship and driving the systematic societal
transformation around all dimension of engagement with the civil society. Brewster (2017) described
that regarding communities, they had constantly been striving to help communities where they live
and work to evolve and develop. Further, the study has analyzed the IBMer with the personal and
professional transformation of employees that is essential for success. Again, Brewster (2017) assess
the environment where the study shows how their solutions and programs demonstrate their
commitment to protecting environments. Regarding the supply chain, the social and environmental
responsibility, as shown by Puranam and Vanneste (2016) could be seen at all the facet of their
supply chain. Ultimately regarding governance, their programs of corporate governance can evolve
as IBM transformations.
The methodology of the research:
Secondary research:
This would be coming from various data fact sheets, journals, newspaper articles. These must
provide an overview of the developing IBM, Middle East’s infrastructure through projects.

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Primary Research:
Here, for interview and questionnaire would be used. The former one would have no bias and
must be done by various managers of IMB, Middle East. The later one must be done on various
employees of the organization chosen.
The timescale of the present project:
Task Name Duration Start Finish
Introduction, background and problem
review
7 days Fri 4/17/20 Mon 4/27/20
Conducting the literature review or the
secondary research
10 days Tue 4/28/20 Mon 5/11/20
Creating the questionnaire and the
interview questions
7 days Tue 5/12/20 Wed 5/20/20
Implementing questionnaire 7 days Thu 5/21/20 Fri 5/29/20
Undertaking interviews 7 days Mon 6/1/20 Tue 6/9/20
Gathering and interpreting data 4 days Wed 6/10/20 Mon 6/15/20
Making critical review of the results 7 days Tue 6/16/20 Wed 6/24/20
Documenting the recommendations and
the action plans
8 days Thu 6/25/20 Mon 7/6/20
Completing the report 6 days Tue 7/7/20 Tue 7/14/20

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Source: “Gantt Chart for the present project o IBM, Middle East”
(Source: Created by Author)

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References:
Brewster, C., 2017. The integration of human resource management and corporate strategy. In
Policy and practice in European human resource management (pp. 22-35). Routledge.
Hernandez, E. and Menon, A., 2019. Corporate Strategy and Network Change. Academy of
Management Review, (ja).
Ibm.com. 2020. IBM - United Arab Emirates. [online] Available at: <https://www.ibm.com/ae-en>
[Accessed 14 April 2020].
Mazzei, M.J. and Noble, D., 2017. Big data dreams: A framework for corporate strategy. Business
Horizons, 60(3), pp.405-414.
Puranam, P. and Vanneste, B., 2016. Corporate strategy: Tools for analysis and decision-making.
Cambridge University Press.