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The ability to keep ‘building’ on
terms of transforming their businesses.
the hybrid cloud, says Bhandari, will
Leaders and organisations all over the
accelerate the adoption of AI as part
world have come to realise that it’s not
of enterprise transformation. Other
a question of ‘should we do it’, but a
important technologies that will be
question of ‘when do we do it’. If you
adopted include 5G and blockchain,
don’t, you’ll very quickly be irrelevant.”
which he says has the potential to “It’s a rapidly changing industry. But
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with that, comes an acute awareness
When Bhandari joined IBM five years
and willingness on the part of the
ago, his role was specifically created
c-suite and enterprises to gain a much
to facilitate the mission of transform-
greater understanding of what these
ing IBM into a Data and AI enterprise.
trends and technologies can do in
He built a transformation strategy
transform data and data ownership.
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