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Ginni Rometty Wins Award For Achievement and Innovation

https://news.northwestern.edu/stories/2019/05/trustee-and-alumna-ginni-rometty-honored-with-edison-achievement-award/

Northwestern University trustee and alumna Virginia M. (Ginni) Rometty ’79, chairman, president and CEO of IBM, received a 2019 Edison Achievement Award and delivered the award’s keynote address April 4 in New York City.

The Edison Awards include 16 annual awards that honor excellence in new product design and technological innovation. The Edison Achievement Award recognizes one leader each year for making a significant and lasting contribution to the world of innovation. Past recipients include Steve Jobs and Elon Musk.

Rometty graduated from Northwestern’s McCormick School of Engineering in 1979 with a bachelor’s degree in computer science and electrical engineering and began her career with IBM as a systems engineer in 1981. She was later selected as CEO in 2012, becoming one of a few female CEOs of Fortune 500 companies. Under her leadership, IBM has become a leader in artificial intelligence, blockchain, cybersecurity and quantum technologies.

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I'd want to be blind too if the Empress has no clothes and Palmisano's fig leaf fell off.

rim shot

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Post ID: @1kkw+YV4wmrT

The Empress has no clothes. Northwestern is blind as well.

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Post ID: @1ezr+YV4wmrT

@lvu the last innovative internally developed product was DB2. Everything since then was an acquisition, that's been bled dry and tossed to the side. IBM stopped buying when Sam started roadkill 2015, and that's when the fig leaf of innovation dropped away.

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"Under her leadership, IBM has become a leader in artificial intelligence, blockchain, cybersecurity and quantum technologies.".

WHO bribed someone to write this Lie??

Now if the Award was for the most Losing Quarters in IBM History, or her ability to drive IBM's Stock Price down with no bottom in sight. Then this Award would be rightfully earned and appropriate.

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Post ID: @1bag+YV4wmrT

She is a complete mo--n !

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Post ID: @1rkm+YV4wmrT

This poster summed it up nicely

During her tenure she was doing activities but they're not accomplishments. She has no track record of accomplishments.

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Post ID: @hoe+YV4wmrT

Actually Northwestern U is apparently VERY successful for Financial Engineering degrees. Oh wait .. you meant something else ...?

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Post ID: @rjy+YV4wmrT

Carly Fiorina is saying “thank god for Ginni”. I wonder if there is a secret hand shake for the “I lost 100 billion club” Apparently Northwestern U isn’t very strong on the financial side of the engineering degree Anyway congrat’s Ginni. Hell of a job

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Post ID: @eih+YV4wmrT

This award is for being named CEO, not for anything she has done since. Disgraceful.

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Post ID: @ewz+YV4wmrT

"awards that honor excellence in new product design and technological innovation"

They gave this award 25 years too late. IBM used to be an incredibly innovative company, but since the mid-1990's it's been all about acquisitions, marketing, and financial engineering. There's little to no innovation or new product development happening any more.

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Post ID: @lvu+YV4wmrT

During her tenure she was doing activities but they're not accomplishments. She has no track record of accomplishments.

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