IBM Strategy Guru To Retire
Wladawsky-Berger, a native of Cuba, joined IBM in 1970 and rose within the company to become a driving force behind its move from a big iron focus to distributed computing. Over the past 10 years, he became a key strategist behind IBM's move to embrace "e-business" as well as Open Source Software, believing that "free" software could enable custom solutions and custom services that played, ultimately, to IBM's core strengths.
"Beyond my continuing relationship with IBM, I am still working out my post-retirement plans. I want to increase my involvement with universities, for sure," wrote Wladawsky-Berger, IBM's vice president of technical strategy and innovation. "At MIT, for example, where I have been a visiting professor of Engineering Systems for about a year, I am planning to teach a graduate seminar this Fall on Technology Advances, Business Transformation and Innovation, which will draw heavily on my experiences with the IBM Internet Division and our e-business strategy."
Wladawsky-Berger says he will, though, continue blogging -- which he has been doing for more than a year.
