Louis Gerstner, the executive who engineered one of the most important corporate turnarounds in the history of the high-technology sector, data-analytics-id=”inline-link” href=”https://newsroom.ibm.com/2025-12-28-Remembering-Lou-Gerstner” data-url=”https://newsroom.ibm.com/2025-12-28-Remembering-Lou-Gerstner” target=”_blank” referrerpolicy=”no-referrer-when-downgrade” data-hl-processed=”none” data-mrf-recirculation=”inline-link”>died at the age of 83 on Saturday. Gerstner took control over data-analytics-id=”inline-link” href=”https://www.tomshardware.com/tag/ibm” data-auto-tag-linker=”true” data-mrf-recirculation=”inline-link” data-before-rewrite-localise=”https://www.tomshardware.com/tag/ibm”>IBM in 1993 when it was at the brink of breakup and bankruptcy, rebuilt the company into a services-led data-analytics-id=”inline-link” href=”https://www.tomshardware.com/tag/enterprise” data-auto-tag-linker=”true” data-mrf-recirculation=”inline-link” data-before-rewrite-localise=”https://www.tomshardware.com/tag/enterprise”>enterprise, and restored its strategic relevance by 2002. Multiple prominent high-tech leaders worked at IBM under Gertner’s leadership, spreading his skills across the industry nowadays.
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