After Dani went out, John got up and made himself a cup of coffee.

Looking at the steaming coffee in the cup, John felt that this life is similar to the coffee in this cup, both sour and bitter, but if you taste it carefully, there is a mellow aroma between the sour and bitter, which is the taste of life after the baptism of time.

After a few sips of coffee, John was in a slightly better mood, and saw the folder on the table reach for it, ready to deal with the task that old Morgan had assigned him.

Opening the folder and looking around, John looked at it and gradually frowned, and the mood that had just calmed down became bad again, because he found that he seemed to have been cheated by old Morgan again.

He remembered that when the elder Morgan handed over the folder to him, he said that there was a little problem with IBM's operation and that he wanted to take the opportunity to experience it himself. But after reading the report, he realized that this was a small problem, and this was a disaster.

The report shows that IBM has lost more than 20 billion in two years.

Oh my God! More than 20 billion! It's not a number piled up in the stock market, it's real money lost.

More than 20 billion, not to mention the 90s, that is, after the new millennium, when the dollar depreciated, it lost so much money, it is a nightmare for any company, how big a problem does this have to be to lose so much? If this is a small problem, then what is the big problem, bankruptcy?

However, John admires old Morgan a little, he himself feels pain when he is cheated for billions, and old Morgan has lost more than 20 billion, and he still seems to be nothing, which shows that old Morgan's qi cultivation kung fu is absolutely cosmic.

In fact, John doesn't know that old Morgan is good at cultivating qi, and he has scolded John Ex more than once in the past two years, but it doesn't work if he scolds him, IBM still loses money. No, he was going to deal with IBM, but John just jumped out, so he patiently took the opportunity to hone John.

After reading IBM's report, John pondered and remembered some memories of his previous life, remembering that IBM did lose a lot of money in the early 90s, but he was not a little black fan, and he had just graduated at this time in his previous life and was running around for work, and he didn't pay much attention to it, so he didn't have a deep impression on him, and he didn't think about it in this life.

As he thought about it carefully, the memory in John's mind became clearer and clearer, and he remembered that after IBM was in trouble in his previous life, it seemed that it was a man named Gerstner who saved the blue giant.

But with the in-depth recollection, John also remembered a report in his previous life, in which it was said that Gerstner actually did not save IBM but ruined IBM, because of Gerstner, IBM changed from a creative company to a service company, and was no longer the real IBM. Just as everyone said that Cook destroyed the apple, there will be no apples after Steve Jobs left the world. The reason why everyone says this is because Apple in the Jobs era focused on innovation, followed by sales, while Apple in the Cook era focused on sales, followed by innovation.

And now in front of John is the same problem, if according to the trajectory of the previous life, Gerstner is invited to be the president of IBM, IBM can certainly get out of the predicament, but IBM will also lose the gene of innovation, become a profitable company for profit, embark on a road of constantly using acquisitions to improve the stock, and in the end even the PC business is sold.

But if you don't choose Gerstner, it will be a new path, and IBM will be able to keep the innovation gene, but whether the future will soar or fall to the bottom, John said it is possible.

Whether to follow the old path and follow the trajectory of the previous life, or to forge a new path, John needs to make his own choice, but this choice is not easy to make, because it is the fate of IBM, he needs to think, he needs to weigh the pros and cons.

But before making a choice, John wants to know what caused IBM to lose money for two consecutive years, you must know that this is the king of the IT industry, known as the blue giant, and the existence of the whole industry will tremble when he stomps his feet, and now he has lost more than 20 billion, how can it not be surprising.

If you want to know about IBM's losses, of course, you need to ask the family, and now the head of IBM is John Ax, this person John met a few days ago, he is an acquaintance, and after deciding on the idea, John called Dani into the study from the new.

"Daini, call IBM President John Ekes and ask him to come to Morgan Estate, and I'm going to ask him about IBM's performance. John selectively forgot about Daini's writing of his dark history in Phantoms, and calmly watched as Daini commanded.

As his butler, writing "Phantom" is one of Daini's main jobs, and as long as what Dani wrote into "Phantom" is true, he has no right to stop it, so instead of meaningless resistance, it is better to selectively forget, and after a long time this thing becomes a habit, and he will get used to it.

When Dani heard John's order, she didn't immediately go to call John Ex, but continued to stand in front of John, frowning slightly. "Boss, did the patriarch leave the IBM matter to you?"

"Yes!" John nodded, then helplessly. "I've been tricked again. ”

After listening to this, Dani didn't fall into the well like before, thinking about writing John's embarrassment into "Phantom", she was obviously worried this time, she had already heard about IBM, this company has become a mess now, no one wants to get involved, and now that John is involved, she is worried that if John doesn't handle it well, he will probably get into trouble.

John was relieved to see Dani's concern, and comforted him. "Don't worry, isn't the knowledge we got from childhood to college just to solve this kind of thing?"

"Yes. ”

Dani nodded, the education she and John received since childhood, the knowledge they learned, was all to be able to manage the group well, so this day would come sooner or later.

"In that case, the boss will test you to see how much you learned in school. John was suddenly interested in seeing how capable Dani was.

"If you were the president of IBM, what would you do if you were faced with the current situation?"

"Uh-huh....... ”

Dani pulled out her chair and sat down, organizing her words. "If I were the president of IBM, I would start from the ground up, eliminate the internal bureaucracy, and rejuvenate the company and regain its confidence.

Secondly, sell some unprofitable divisions and resell some patents, first, to slim down the company, and second, to increase the company's cash position.

In the second place, the company closed backward factories and laid off employees to reduce operating costs for the company.

Finally, through the price reduction of some products and the improvement of the service industry, the market's confidence in the company will be restored. ”

Dani said her thoughts in one breath, the reason why she was able to come up with a solution in a short period of time was not because she was quick-witted, but that in order to let her understand the current situation of the group, the old Morgan would send her a report of some important companies in the group every month, so when she saw that IBM was losing money, she did a management deduction, and the method she was talking about now was the method of the initial deduction at that time.