{"id":982495,"date":"2025-12-30T08:08:02","date_gmt":"2025-12-30T02:38:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=982495"},"modified":"2025-12-30T08:16:10","modified_gmt":"2025-12-30T02:46:10","slug":"louis-gerstner-former-ibm-ceo-who-revitalised-big-blue-dies-at-83","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/12\/30\/louis-gerstner-former-ibm-ceo-who-revitalised-big-blue-dies-at-83\/","title":{"rendered":"Louis Gerstner, former IBM CEO who revitalised &#8216;Big Blue,&#8217; dies at 83"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Louis Gerstner, the former CEO and chairman of IBM, \u200ddied on Saturday, aged 83. <\/p>\n<p>IBM chairman and CEO Arvind Krishna announced Gerstner&#8217;s death \u2060in an email sent Sunday to employees, but did not provide a cause of death. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Lou arrived at IBM at a moment when the company&#8217;s future was \u200cgenuinely uncertain. \u200cHis leadership during that period reshaped the company. Not by looking backward, but by \u200cfocusing relentlessly on what our clients would need next&#8221;, Krishna said in his email.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Louis Gerstner, the former CEO and chairman of IBM, \u200ddied on Saturday, aged 83. IBM chairman and CEO Arvind Krishna announced Gerstner&#8217;s death \u2060in an email sent Sunday to employees, but did not provide a cause of death. &#8220;Lou arrived at IBM at a moment when the company&#8217;s future was \u200cgenuinely uncertain. \u200cHis leadership during that period reshaped the company. Not by looking backward, but by \u200cfocusing relentlessly on what our clients would need next&#8221;, Krishna said in his email.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-982495","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/982495","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=982495"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/982495\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=982495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=982495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=982495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}