"Ms. Carly Fiorina, I now formally appoint you as Vice President and President of IBM's PC Division, with full responsibility for the IBMPC Division. ”

John said as he handed the letter of appointment to Carly Fiorina.

Although Carly Fiorina is an airborne hired from outside like Lu Yingde, she is a little different from Lu Yingde, Lu Yingde was recruited from other companies, while she was transferred from AT&T, a subsidiary of the Morgan Group, and her husband also works at AT&T, so their family is considered Morgan Group people.

"Thank you, boss!" Carly Fiorina took the letter of appointment and bent over John.

When she stood up straight, John pressed his hand against her and told her to sit down.

"Wouldn't it be a little unhappy to transfer you to IBM, after all, you are so far away from Mr. Fiorina. John smiled, and transferring Carly Fiorina to IBM is equivalent to splitting up the two of them, and usually if the two want to be intimate, they may have to fly.

"Work first, I obey the group's arrangement. Carly Fiorina, who was the head of sales at AT&T, is now moving to IBM as the head of the department, which is considered a promotion, so she is naturally willing. Although she is far away from her husband, this is not a problem at all, and buying a private jet can solve it.

After talking about life, John turned the conversation to work, and he had some thoughts about IBM's PC business.

"I hope that when you succeed as president of the PC division, you will be able to make some adjustments to the products of the PC department, and I am very dissatisfied with the existing products.

In terms of functionality, not only for business and military, but also for home and gaming laptops, we also need to vigorously develop them, and desktops cannot be left behind. "IBM suffers from the fact that the PC is only for business and military, the business is too narrow, and the home and game books are the main sales.

"So I decided that IBM PCs would be added to business, military, and desktops in the future, as well as home and gaming laptops.

The business jet is named the ThinkPad Laptop

The military aircraft was named ArmyPad Military Notebook

The home machine is named MagicnPad

The game is called Alienware

With the exception of military aircraft, business jets maintain IBM's usual black style, but the materials must be diversified, and engineering plastics cannot be used all the time.

Households, game books, and desktops can't always use the black style, the colors must be enriched, and more colors that young people like, such as white, gold, silver, blue, avant-garde and bold in appearance, and rich in materials, such as aluminum-magnesium alloy, anodized aluminum, carbon fiber...... Wait a minute.

As for the gaming laptop, the logo does not use IBM, but uses the alien avatar as the logo, and uses the current highest-end configuration regardless of the cost to create a world-class gaming laptop for game enthusiasts. ”

IBM enthusiasts in this life may not be able to be called "little black fans", but this pot John can't carry it, Carly Fiorina earns tens of millions a year, and this kind of scolded thing will be handed over to her.

There is no way for John to change IBM's PC to this, IBM's PC sales were not good in his previous life, and he was later sold to Lenovo, a large part of the reason is because of the shape and color.

Therefore, John can only break this single style in this life, so as to increase sales, because only when sales increase can there be profits, and with profits, they will not sell, otherwise they will inevitably follow the old path of the previous life.

After arranging Carly Fiorina's question, John then met with Gerstner and Jeff Immelt.

In his previous life, Gerstner was appointed president of IBM Group, but in this life, in order to maintain IBM's innovation and avoid becoming a commercial company, John could only arrange Gerstner into the hardware department.

But that's not to say that John doesn't value Gerstner, the hardware department is very important to IBM, even more than any other department.

If IBM wants to get rid of Intel's clamping and take its fate into its own hands, it must develop its own processors, motherboards, hard disks, optical drives, and monitors...... and other important hardware.

Moreover, it is necessary to develop some accessories for PCs and mobile phones, such as mice, keyboards, cameras, stereos, batteries...... Wait.

The reason why John let the hardware department involve the peripheral accessories of PCs and mobile phones, that is because the accessories are very profitable, and it may be more profitable than selling mobile phones, Apple's wireless headphones that have been hacked by countless people in the previous life, the sales volume of one year has reached 10 million pairs, more than 1,000 yuan a pair, and the sales of 10 million pairs have contributed more than 10 billion sales to Apple, which is just the earphones, and what protective shells, converters, and data cables ...... , These miscellaneous things add up, Apple earns tens of billions of dollars a year on accessories, and MFi certification fees alone have to be charged a lot.

So it's a chicken that lays golden eggs, and John has to put it to good use. And Gerstner is good at business, so arranging him into the hardware department is a reasonable allocation.

Immediately after the hardware division was dealt with, John appointed Jeff Immelt as vice president and president of office equipment at IBM.

Jeff Immelt was specially poached by John from General Electric, and in order to dig up Jeff Immelt, John put a lot of effort into it, and finally even shamelessly used his power to get it.

The reason why Jeff Immelt is so difficult to dig is because this guy is the successor cultivated by Jack Welch, the future president of General Electric.

However, John doesn't care whether Jeff Immelt is the successor of General Electric, he only knows that there is one less administrator in IBM's office equipment department, and Jack Welch has trained more people in the past ten years, and it is innocuous to poach one, GM does not have Jeff Immelt and Bob Nadelli, Jim McEnany, these two are no worse than Jim McEnany.

After arranging Jim McEnany's work, only the president of the software division was left in the eight major departments of IBM, and John, the president of this department, decided to let John Eks take over.

Although John Eks has many shortcomings, it is undeniable that he also has many advantages, such as vision, courage and overall vision, and the software department is a department that needs forward-thinking thinking a lot. And John Ex is a person who is very ahead of the times, otherwise he would not be as independent as Apple in the future, and he would not want to divide IBM into several major departments to tackle one area each, so between his advanced thinking, John handed over the software department to him. And there is a more important reason, which is to create an opportunity for him to be disgraced.

In the past, several major computer manufacturers put him together, and now John handed over the software department to him, just to want him to pit these companies once in the future, otherwise where will IBM's face go.