-: If I look at the last 30 to 40 years,
we are in a unique set of circumstances.
We have inflation.
We have a demographic shift
in at least all advanced economies
where there are fewer people.
Add to it cyber risk, geopolitical uncertainty,
including its impact on supply chains.
So how do you grow in the face of those headwinds?
Technology is a way to grow, that's number one.
Two, you've got to simplify the business.
The whole question comes down to, what does good look like?
The thinking and the design work
is where we really heavily collaborate with BCG.
-: The BCG and IBM partnership has really brought to life
the benefit that we can gain from each other.
We really deeply wanted to understand
what does best look like?
How do we actually elevate ourself
to be the most productive company in the world?
-: BCG worked closely with IBM
to identify productivity impact
across a variety of different dimensions.
So far, the program has delivered
more than $1.5 billion of bottom-line impact to IBM,
and we have a clear line of sight to more than $3 billion
of value creation.
-: The return on investment, the return on value,
the time to value on this particular journey
has been exceptional.
Here we are 18 months into our journey together.
We have delivered an incredible amount of savings,
but we've also improved the experience
and the productivity of all IBMers.
-: Always, always, always,
we were thinking about the linkage back to strategy.
Can we use some of IBM's internal technologies,
including their capabilities around generative AI?
-: We've brought to life Watsonx
in all of our business processes.
Whether you're in HR, whether you're in finance,
whether you're in sales,
we really have given you the enablement
to use a digital assistant to bring to life the data
and to help you make the right decisions faster
and with more intelligence.
-: We have created a joint offering
that brings the best of BCG and IBM's capabilities
to help our clients get the most productivity
and value that we can deliver.
-: What would it feel like to be part of a company
that truly had transformed every element with productivity
and AI?
For us and our partnership, I think the vision is clear.
We are going to make it that you can be fast,
you can be agile, you can adjust
to whatever market dynamics may come,
but you also can do it with data-driven insights
and make much smarter decisions.
-: These are examples of what we are doing,
leveraging AI inside our own business
and on track by the end of the year
to take 3 billion out of the business.
That productivity, by the way, is what feeds
all of the investments we need to do around the innovation
that we're trying to get done.
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