Irving Wladawsky-Berger, IBM's vice president of technical strategy and innovation, who led most of the company's big-bet moves into new technology arenas, has retired. <A HREF="http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,2159087,00.asp?kc=EWKNLNAV071707STR3">How do you say goodbye to a legend?</A> Well, if you're IBM, you don't. You just let them "retire" and you continue to tap their expertise on a part-time basis.

That's what IBM is doing with Irving Wladawsky-Berger, the company's just-retired vice president of technical strategy and innovation. Wladawsky-Berger just retired in June after 37 years on the job. But he will stay on in a part-time capacity, doing pretty much what he'd been doing for the last several years--looking for new technologies and new markets IBM should get into and then figuring out the way the company should attack the opportunity.