New IBM CEO, Arvind Krishna calls for culture shift


By MYBRANDBOOK


New IBM CEO, Arvind Krishna calls for culture shift

IBM’s new Indian origin Chief Executive, Arvind Krishna has asked all his employees to build up an entrepreneurial mindset. He has taken over the position at a very crucial stage where technology spend has come to a standstill due to disruption in daily life across countries due to the spread of Covid-19.

 

"Culture is everything. It's what drives capability in any organisation. One of my key priorities will be fostering an entrepreneurial mindset across our business," wrote Krishna in a letter to employees after he took over as CEO.

 

"This is about being nimble, pragmatic and aiming for speed over elegance. And, it's about being comfortable with ambiguity and continuously adapting to shifting circumstances. All of this also needs to be complemented by a growth mindset," Krishna wrote.

 

Krishna spearheaded the acquisition of Red Hat, the open source cloud platform company for IBM, is now looking forward to cloud to revive fortunes of IBM, a company that has struggled to grow over the last few years. Highlighting specific actions for the future, Krishna said IBM employees need to make use of the company's sources of competitive advantage.

 

"Namely, our open source and security leadership, our deep expertise and trust, and the fact that we enable clients to build mission-critical applications once and run them anywhere. Second, we have to win the architectural battle in cloud. There's a unique window of opportunity for IBM and Red Hat to establish Linux, containers and Kubernetes as the new standard," he said.

 

Alluding to the coronavirus outbreak and IBM's role in such a critical health crisis worldwide, Krishna said, "If there's one thing that this crisis has brought to light is the ever essential role of IBM in the world". "We are the backbone of some of the most critical systems of the world."

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