Your grandfather’s IBM shows signs of life

Virginia Backaitis
Digitizing Polaris
Published in
3 min readApr 20, 2022

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IBM CEO Arvind Krishna credit: Benedict Evans

IBM CEO Arvind Krishna gets it. “Technology has become a fundamental source of competitive advantage,” he told investors during yesterday’s earnings call. “It is at the very center of how businesses scale and is no longer perceived primarily as a way to cut costs.”

The latter might as well be the theme song of the twenty-second century as businesses now focus more on crushing data for…

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