From an analysis of the case, discuss some key factors that led to the Williams Company's decline and ultimate exit from the private sector.

• To what extent did project management, concurrent engineering, and total quality management play a role in culturally changing 85 years of traditional management?

• Explain whether the sale of the Williams Division by Crock Engineering, the company that acquired it, was consistent with the tenets of modern project management.

Pleplease respond to the following:

The IBM chairman, Samuel J. Palmisano, addressed the 2010 Annual Meeting and Conference of the Intelligent Transportation Society of America in Houston, TX, on May 5, 2010. The talk was entitled, "A Smart Transportation System: Improving Mobility for the 21st Century."

• Analyze his speech. Discuss elements of a systems approach to project management.

• To what extent did marketing play a role in this address?