Japan's Lou Gerstner.(Fujitsu head Tadashi Sekizawa; Face Value)(Column)

Economist (US), The, November, 1996

Sekizawa, who has headed computer manufacturer for six years, has made some impressive changes at the company. He is compared with IBM head Lou Gerstner, who turned IBM around. The US and Japanese markets for mainframe and networked personal computers is discussed.

WALK into any Japanese office these days and you fall over empty boxes at every step. The reason is PCs. Nearly 6m of them were bought in Japan last year, up an awesome 70% from the year before. Two-thirds of them were bound for offices rather than homes. When offices in the United States went through the transition from mainframes to networked personal computers in the early 1990s, it created havoc at IBM, the world's largest computer maker. Now Fujitsu, the second largest, has begun to face much the same...

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