IBM Polska increases employment as part of new strategy

Last year IBM Polska increased its employment by over 100 specialists as the start of a new strategy to be announced at the beginning of May and, according to Rzeczpospolita, it will see a two-fold increase in employment by 2006. IBM's head for the EMEA region, Hans Ulrich Maerki, stated that the company would work hard to increase its turnover and aimed at becoming national market leader. The company plans to focus its activities in fields unrelated to its core business but rather in IT and advisory services, which already constitute roughly 50% of the company's global turnover. This year IBM is taking part in the largest tenders for IT systems - PKO BP and PZU - and in both cases has been short-listed. (Rzeczpospolita, p. B5) M.M.