How can integrated approach and technology innovation drive the growth map for the company?
First of all, IBM is a technology company at its core. In order to remain competitive, businesses must continue to innovate at all levels and IBM can provide the technology to support and drive innovations. There are a number of new opportunities for innovation emanating from this region as some of the issues and challenges faced by our clients here are unique. For example, the technology needs of the population at the base of the pyramid represent a huge opportunity for IBM as does the massive scale of the largest enterprises in this region. As we have already begun to invent technologies like the Spoken Web, we fully expect that there will be a stream of technology innovations that will address the needs of this region. But as a globally integrated enterprise, we aspire to take these technologies to other parts of the world, in both growth markets and major markets, and implement them successfully there. As we bring the global innovation engine of IBM to bear on the needs of the Indi
