IBM explores how to incorporate diversity into their business strategy, by doing so, that the labor force diversity is crucial to the marketing of their products and services to its customers. In the early 1990s, Ted Childs, vice president of Workforce Diversity, invited the Director Lou Gerstner create eight forces variety of tasks. Delves into the organizational and cultural obstacles to start because of the variety of tasks and initiatives like IBM have overcome these obstacles to effective strategy diversity. Once the target groups have been created, they have been tremendous growth and has become global. Children are also faced with the problem of making the U.S. a variety of strategies and applying it to the global organization of IBM. Teaching Purpose:. To demonstrate how a company can implement an effective strategy of diversity and to integrate it into the overall business strategy of "Hide
by David Thomas, Ayesha Kanji Source: Harvard Business School 27 pages. Publication Date: November 17, 2004. Prod. #: 405044-PDF-ENG