# Partnerships:
"Each party contributes; each benefits."

With worldwide revenue projected to surpass one trillion dollars in the 1990s, the information-handling industry may become the world's largest. Within that opportunity, there are countless needs to be met and solutions to be found—for business, government and individuals.

To participate fully in all aspects of this growth, IBM is expanding existing relationships, and forming new ones, with others whose skills, resources and interests complement our own. The results are already evident across the range of the company's activities, and in the ways information technology is being expanded to respond to economic and social needs around the world.

At the National Institute for Deaf Children in Paris, children learn to speak more clearly with the aid of a speech training system developed at the IBM France Scientific Center. Here, a child working with a therapist matches his speech to a prototype pattern displayed on an IBM Personal Computer screen. Visual feedback allows the child to adjust his pitch until he makes the correct sound.