Biggish Blue CEO Arvind Krishna told the outfit’s company’s annual Think conference this week that his outfit is open to new partnerships.
Krishna said: “You have technology, but you also have to work with an ecosystem. No one company has all of the expertise, has all of the technologies that any of our clients need to be able to scale their businesses. So you must, must work on co-creating within a large ecosystem. … We want to build an ecosystem that unleashes the full potential of hybrid cloud and artificial intelligence for your benefit.”
Krishna said managed service providers, resellers and other partners “all make a lot of money by helping our clients deploy these technologies—and by these technologies, it is Red Hat, it is automation, it is AI, it is cybersecurity, it is even mainframe and power and storage in some cases. And going into clients and giving our clients value with our technologies is something they should all know we want them to do. And we are happy to work with them. We are happy to train them. We are happy to co-invest and co-market with them”.
IBM of today is “much more open to working with others on partnerships, on innovation, on co-creation, he said.
“When you hear us say, ‘let’s create,’ it’s an invitation from us to all of you”, he said. “Let’s come together. Let’s try to solve the business challenges. Let’s embrace digital transformation. But it’s also an indicator that we are open to partnerships. We are open to working with you. We want to help create all of these things together.”
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