How to Stay be in Business for Over a 100 Years

Image: Signing of the Equal Pay Act of 1963

​Corporate Challenge:  Leading the world into the big wave of Artificial Intelligence.  
 
Ironbound Strategy:  Powerful brands need top talent to propel their business into the future.  Holistically creating value across all stakeholders requires embracing equity as a pivotal core value.  Pay equity is the cornerstone of creating employee value.  
 
Ironbound Action:  New York based IBM is multinational leader in technology, with operations in 175 countries, that was founded over 100 years ago in 1911.  Since 1935 IBM has had an equal pay policy, with women currently making up about a third of the workforce.  For 29 consecutive years IBM has been awarded more U.S. patents than any other company.  IBM expects the next big trillion-dollar market opportunity to be in Hybrid Cloud and Artificial Intelligence.  In 2021 the company deployed the world’s first 127-qubit processer and is expected to launch the first 1000-qubit processer in 2023.  The values of gender equality over the last century paved the values for a much more prosperous next 100 years.  

*In 2019, IBM was awarded over 4,500 patents related to AI and quantum computing 

​** In 2021, celebrated over 105 years of uninterrupted dividends with 25 consecutive years of increases