Creating Economic Value from Knowledge
Thomas Watson Sr. had adopted “Think” as a slogan before he took the helm at C-T-R. It happened in 1911—the same year that financier Charles Flint was stitching together Herman Hollerith’s Tabulating Machine Company, the Computing Scale Company of America and the International Time Recording Company. In Dayton, Ohio, Watson was the sales manager of the National Cash Register Corporation. The company’s sales executives met every day at 8 a.m. to talk about new developments and ideas.
IBM Research pioneered advances in operations research. From left: Benoît Mandelbrot, Richard Levitan, Paul Gillmore, Ralph ...
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