Reengineering ($9.5 billion dollar savings - Jim York lead the effort)
a. Consolidate the data centers and financial structures b. Formulate Market-Driven strategies c. Stop the hemoraging of cash. d. Keep the company together e. Keep with the mainframe and stop the declining sells of the System 390. f. Lower the price of the large servers g. Implement CMOS technology into mainframe architecture, $1 billion investment and a $19 billion dollar return by 2001. h. Belief the Networked model would become the model of the future i. Increase the role of outsourcing to establish and IT dominance in service and software j. Reorganize the board: Chuck Knight, Chuck Vest, Juergen Dormann, Minoru Makihara, Ken Chenualt, and Sidney Taurel. k. Increase Hardware development cycle to sixteen month from four years l. Increase ontime deliveries from 30 percent in 1995 to 95 percent in 2001 m. $2 billion in IT expenses: consolidate from 155 data centers to 16, 31 communication networks into one. n. Sell 8,000 acres of land.
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