| As the tidal waves of Globalization and knowledge-economy are sweeping every corner of the Globe, how to integrate geophysical dispersed resources, furthermore how to effectively deploy these resources on a world-wide basis has become more and more critical for any company. All of the enterprises who have visions and ambitions of their futures must be well-prepared for theses challenges, and work out their own solutions accordingly. The ultimate goal of survival and victory can only be achieved by the best combination of far-sighted strategy, powerful executive strength, and versatile tactics.Software industry, to everyone's common knowledge, is such a new thing that it was only born in this ever-changing world 60 years ago. Like other centuries-old industries, it has many similar problems by which traditional industries are currently suffered. But unlike its predecessors, Software industry has to face its new difficulties, especially in term of business scope, information sharing, corporation organization, market risk model and human resource conservation. Although much still can be learned from the well-established management theory widely used by traditional industries, the existing solutions have their inherent weaknesses when trying to solve problems mentioned above. As a result, how can a software company form its core competence to gain advantage over other competitors is becoming the focus of intensive study by many academic institutions.The emergence of concept of enterprise core competence is an extension, also a supplement to traditional theory, and it will form the ground work upon witch hi-tech companies can gain momentum for sustainable development. As a typical example of hi-tech company, IBM Co. Ltd. Dalian Branch is now responsible for most of the IBM's global software out-sourcing business, as well as providing one-to-one architecture solutions to customers all over the world. Along with its booming business and continuous organizational self-growth, there also come above-mentioned problems, failing to do which, will hinder IBM Co. Ltd. Dalian Branch from further prosperity. Thus this company is an ideal candidate for our case study.This article is based upon concept of enterprise core competence and further systematic study is done by using IBM Co. Ltd. Dalian Branch as a typical case of our interest. Both external and internal factors with which the company has influences are taken into account during the research. By the aid of mathematical analytical tools, evidences are collected and summarized together to draw the final conclusion, whereby purport of enterprise of core competence comes into being. It is expected that this article be a reference and of help to those companies who are seeking solutions to the problems being met in business and to those entrepreneurs who are concerning about sustainable development of their enterprises. |
