Name: IBM CEO CHALLENGES
Uploaded: 2014-09-23
Duration: 1 min 45 s
Description: IBM CEO CHALLENGES

[ MUSIC ] Is there something that IBM could have done prior to you becoming CEO, that could have positioned you even further along at this point today? Oh, I, I think. Every, all my predecessors, I'm the ninth CEO of IBM. Every one of them has shifted and steered through technological shift and everyone left that company in a better position than the person before them. And prepared it and, in fact, actually prepared this company by a very strong balance sheet and what it has. To allow it to continue to invest for the next shift. So I look back and say every one of my predecessors steered through a time of technical change and took the company out of it. And then you grew a stronger position. And so now as we go through another set of transformations around these three big shifts of data, cloud and engagement. That's our job then to leave behind a company positioned as well for my next successor. For whenever day that may be. Mm- hm. Even stronger than the day I found it. I feel very strongly that is that job of stewarding for the long term, Um- hm. and that is certainly what has been ingrained in my mind, is what part of my role is to do. Um- hm. But is there something like on the cloud side for example, that you think could have happened faster and before you became CEO? Look I, I was part of this company. So, I have I have no regrets. Take responsibility. Before or after. I take. I take great responsibility. And I think we're well positioned. We've been working on cloud data. You don't get business of that size, this fast, if you haven't been working on them for a long time. So. Mm- hm. I am very pleased with the progress that the companies made over many years in these areas.