Subject: 10/22/95--IBM's New Growth Plan Author: MercBW Uploaded By: MercBW Date: 10/27/1995 File: CONF1022 (14301 bytes) Estimated Download Time (53797 baud): < 1 minute Download Count: 34 Needs: Any text editor or word processor BUSINESS WEEK ONLINE Transcript of Oct. 22, 1995, conference IBM'S NEW GROWTH PLAN To discuss the Oct. 30 Cover Story on IBM's new strategy, the guest was John M. Whiteside, general manager of the IBM Global Network, on stage with Ira Sager of Business Week. CEO Louis V. Gerstner's new vision for Big Blue is called network-centric computing, and it's a strategy to speed up the giant's slow growth of the last 10 years, with a focus on networked computing and electronic commerce.