The CIO as the Chief Transformation Officer The Role of Technology in IBM’s Transformation Journey [email protected] 647.831.8850
Apr 26, 2020
The CIO as the Chief Transformation Officer
The Role of Technology in IBM’s Transformation Journey
647.831.8850
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“This will never happen again” (Jerry York, IBM CFO, 1992)
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IBM EPS Diluted Quarterly
IBM Historical Earnings per Share Diluted Quarterly & TTM
• Beyond improving EPS performance, IBM’s GIE transformation has been instrumental
in stabilizing and growing earnings since the beginning of the 20th century
• This time period coincides with the firm’s focus on enterprise transformation through
process consolidation and standardization
Inflection point
in 1Q02
IBM is in the 20th year of an ongoing Transformation Journey….
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Source: 2015 EPS Roadmap as used on May March 8th Investor Day 2011
….where anticipated transformation results are embedded into IBM’s
Financial Roadmap….
11% CAGR
~$50B returned through share
repurchase
Revenue Growth
~$2.80
2010 OperatingEPS*
Revenue Mix
EnterpriseProductivity
Margin Mix
Shares
2015 OperatingEPS*
$11.67
At Least
$20
Operating Leverage
~$2.50
~$3.05
Acquisitions
Enterprise Productivity yields margin
expansion
Shift to a higher value portfolio continues to
provide leverage
Shift to faster growing business mix provides ~1% revenue growth
Base revenue growth ~2%
excluding divestitures
~$20B of acquisition spend provides ~2%
revenue growth
Base RevenueGrowth
* Non-GAAP: Excludes acquisition-related charges and non-operating retirement-related expense
Assumes current tax policy and Non-GAAP tax rate of 25%
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….where results have been persistently delivered through four phases
of transformation….
© 2012 IBM Corporation
IBM’s management system
integrates leaders across
geographies and products to help
them focus on “One-IBM” goals
As IBM standardized, the firm
began significant investment in
self-service tools to simplify the
delivery model and reduce cost
IBM’s delivery of its financial
roadmap is leveraging its
integrated enterprise to create
and capture value for clients
With a global presence, IBM can
quickly port work to existing local
operations to scale in new markets,
mitigate risk or reduce cost
IBM’s Integrated Enterprise Transformation & Key Differentiators
Integrating functions has
provided a single view of support
costs so IBM can understand
where to invest and reduce
Consolidating ownership and
standardizing tasks has helped IBM
identify best practices while
automating and eliminating work
Optimizing labor and delivery
models has helped IBM reduce
costs while focusing resources on
high value support areas
Current initiatives enable the
transformation that drives
continuous improvement
Integrate Standardize Optimize Elevate
IBM has consolidated
resources by function under a
global leader and budget
Looking across support, IBM
has standardized how work is
executed
IBM has focused on moving
work to where it is best
performed
IBM is investing in initiatives to
enhance client, employee, and
business partner experience
Consolidated $16B of Shared
Service spend across ~150
countries
Reduced support cost by ~25%
over 5 years while entering new
markets
Scaled to support the ~22% of
IBM’s 2011 revenue coming
from emerging markets
Targeting enablement of $8B in
productivity and $20B in
revenue growth by 2015
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From Silos…to Shared Services Transformation Agenda
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Enabling Processes
Operating Processes
Supporting Processes
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Budapest
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Global Enablement Center
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Global Enablement Center
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Smarter Infrastructure
HR Self-
Serve
Benefits
Hiring
Payroll
TrainingNewsHR
FAQs
Operations
Strategy
Technology
Performance
Integration & Values
Daily Execution
Long Term Vision
Market Shifts
Business Performance
Enterprise CapabilitiesLead
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Discrete, Iterative Phases of IBM’s Transformation
Enabling Capabilities
Change Management Risk Management Collaboration Tools Process Excellence
Program Management Performance Management Culture Transformation Business Analytics
• Web based remote services and Integrated invoicing
• Move people to focus on higher value work
• Social engagement
• Integration across BU’s enabling bundled offerings
• Ensuring clients have a superior experience
Client Experience Client Satisfaction
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Systems &
Technology Group
(STG)
Global Business
Services (GBS)
Software Group
(SWG)
Global Technology
Services (GTS)
Sales & Distribution
(S&D)
Business Units
Globally Integrated Shared Services
Geographies
North America
Europe
Japan
Sectors
IBM Organization At a Glance IBM Leadership Governance
Distribution
Industrial
Financial Services
Communications
Public
General Business Growth Markets IBM Research
HR Real Estate IT Finance Legal Marketing/
Comm
Sales
Mgmt
Support
Integrated
Supply
Chain
Sales
Transaction
Hub
….and which has been driven by a Governance model and
commitment to execution….
Strategy Team
IBM’s strategic direction and emerging
business opportunities
Technology Team
Near- and long-term emerging technologies,
technical developments and issues
Integration and Values Team (I&VT)
Integrate IBM’s enterprise-wide capabilities, and
align and communicate strategies and values
Performance Team
Accountable for business performance & results.
Develop cross-unit strategies.
Operating Team
Day-to-day marketplace execution
Focused on ensuring IBMers deliver exceptional
client service
Client Experience Team
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Transformation Framework
Business Process
Excellence
Organizational Change
Management
Information Technology Enablement
Enabling Growth Enabling Productivity Enabling Change
• Growth markets leadership
• Mergers & acquisitions
• State-of-the-art sales
enablement
• Value Services
• Business process
excellence
• IT enablement
• Transformational leadership
• Values-based culture
• Organizational Change
Management
Transformation Focus Areas
IBM Strategy
IBM Values
….of a constant Transformation Framework that drives the interplay of
Business Process Excellence, IT Enablement and Organizational Change
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Enabling Growth
• Growth Markets Leadership
• Mergers & Acquisitions
• State-of-the-art Sales
Enablement
Enabling Growth
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What we’ve done Why?
• Emerging markets growing at more
than twice the rate of major economies
• Growth markets source of global
innovation, high-value, and
competitively-priced skills
• Executed growth strategies by market and
industry
• Leveraged established business relationships
for competitive advantage
• Enabling clients with fast scaling and flexible
environments
• Created/based Growth Markets unit in Shanghai
• Leveraged efficiencies from global support
functions to free up investments
• Focused management system on future and
current period
Growth Markets Leadership
Impact
• IBM’s business in growth markets grew 10 points faster than major markets in 2011
• Growth countries contributed 22% of IBM’s 2011 geographic revenue
• Revenue in Brazil, Russia, India and China up 16% in 2011
• 40 countries grew double digits at constant currency
Greater China
Group
India
S Asia Latin
America Middle East
& Africa
Central & Eastern
Europe
Australia
New Zealand
ASEAN
S Korea
Enabling Growth
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What we’ve done Why?
• IBM growth strategy includes acquiring
high-value solutions, entering new
markets and exiting non-core businesses
• IBM’s revenue growth must come from
both organic and non-organic sources to
meet investor expectations
• Over the past 5 years, invested $18B in
acquiring nearly 60 companies
• Continued to divest non-core businesses
• Acquired technologies AND business models
to create new revenue and deliver additional value
• End-to-end M&A process with Integration
Executives appointed
• Best in class deal management tool to manage
global cross-functional teams
• Post-acquisition performance metrics aligned
with our management system
Mergers & Acquisitions
Impact
• IBM’s acquisitions played a key role in revenue growth and profitability over the past 5 years
• Efficient divestitures program around non-core assets continues to help profitability
• M&A continues to enhance IBM’s position as a global IT leader in strategic areas, e.g. business
analytics
Enabling Growth
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What we’ve done Why?
• Needed to capture new accounts and grow
organic revenue
• Needed to improve sales productivity by
better aligning resources & opportunities
• Needed to support sellers in integrating IBM
on cross-brand deals
• Worked with IBM Research to apply
advanced analytics to sales issues
• Created Sales Transaction Hub – one-stop
shop for pre-sales support
• Worked with business unit leaders to ensure
relevance, buy-in and ownership
• Analytic tools now used by business units
as part of planning process
• Capture our best client proposals and
collateral for reuse
State-of-the-Art Sales Enablement
• Optimization of sales assignments based on analytics resulted in $1B in revenue opportunity over 4 years
• Territory Optimization Program deployed -well-deployed reps outperforming others by 10% on average
• Sellers report reusable proposal collateral saves hours of preparation time
• Sales Transaction Hub increased win rates and reduced the cycle time to close deals
Impact
Enabling Growth
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Enabling Productivity
• Value Services
• Business Process Excellence
• IT Enablement
Enabling Productivity
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IBM GIE Shared Services
“We no longer have to replicate IBM from floor to ceiling in every country. We are optimizing key operations in
the right places in the world – eliminating redundancies and excess overhead – and integrating those operations
horizontally and globally. …This is about doing the right tasks, with the right skills, in the right places.”
- Sam Palmisano, IBM Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer
Legal Information Technology
Real Estate Operations
Marketing and Communications
Sales Management Support
Capitalize on talent and skills around the world
Global support for
the local front office
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Finance
Human Resources / Admin Sales Transaction Hub Integrated Supply Chain
Enabling Productivity Our Shared Services model allows IBM to provide support
to all IBM business units efficiently and effectively
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Shared Services Spend ($B)
Year-to-Year Enterprise
Productivity Savings ($B)
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$5.3B spending reduction in Shared
Services from 2005 through 2011
$2.8B productivity improvement from
Enterprise Transformation Initiatives
In 2011 IBM delivered $1.9B against
$8B 2015 productivity objective
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Enterprise Transformation Initiatives
1.5 1.7
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Enterprise Transformation contributes improved business
performance and has achieved over $8B through 2011 Enabling Productivity
Value Services Progress To-Date
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Impact How we did it
• Process improvements contributing to
growth & productivity:
– $1.4B in productivity gain in process
transformation & integrated operations in two
years
• Hardware Product Management: reducing
product portfolio and design complexity
– Reduced feature and options by 35% and
systems portfolio by 40%
• Use of labor analytics to manage technical
delivery resources
– Unassigned resources – “bench” – has
improved from 8 percent to 3 percent
– Utilization improved 18 percent over four years
• First release of Blue Harmony in China in 2011
integrates data from multiple legacy
systems into a single instance, managed
within SAP
Business Process Excellence
• Focused on driving horizontal, end-to-end
process improvements and put senior
leaders in charge of key processes
• Developed hundreds of professionals with
business process skills, including Lean Sigma
black belts
• Simplified and standardized processes
across business units and geographies
• Package-enabled business transformation,
based on SAP software, provides global
template for consistent deployment
• Identified principles for radical simplification
Current Baseline
Horizontal Integration
Simplification
Radical Change
Enabling Productivity
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The EPF includes 3 categories of Level 1 processes cutting across business units and geographies
11.0 Manage Finances
10.0 Manage Human Resources
12.0 Manage Business Transformation & Information Technology
13.0 Manage Web & Business Support
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8.0 Manage Sales and Channels
7.0 Plan and Manage Client Relationships
6.0 Develop Strategy to Execute
9.0 Procure to Pay
14.0 Manage Financing Services
Hardware Software Services
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Our Enterprise Process Framework (EPF) provides a common taxonomy and reference for all IBM business processes
EPF Overview
Process taxonomy designed to help categorize information on business processes to support
transformation, operational and
deployment activities
Common processes are logically
grouped and displayed once with a single process owner, but can be used by many business areas
Enable organization to understand inner workings from a horizontal process viewpoint, rather than a vertical functional organization point of view.
Enabling Productivity
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Impact How we did it
• $1.75B in IT savings since 2005
• Project Green to deliver 80% energy cost
savings & 85% floor space reduction
• Develop/Test Cloud server supports 5000
images, 500 projects and 1000 developers
• Social Computing fuels collaboration
– 155K employees in Technology Adoption
Program (up 48% from 2010);
– 600K+ users in Lotus Connections.
• Growth market branch offices increased
significantly to 222 branches through 2011
• Began with a massive consolidation:
– 128 CIOs to one
– 155 data centers to 5
– 16,000 applications to 4500
• Capitalized on open standards & virtualization
– 6500+ servers consolidated since 2008
– Created GenO - global, virtual community uses
collaborative practices to develop software
• Leveraged Cloud to share resources, rapid
scaling & self-service
• Transformed intranet into robust social
networking platform
• Developed “branch office in a box” IT
IT Enablement
TAP: Driving Early Adoption Application Portfolio Mgmt SOA for Enterprise Flexibility BlueInsight Analytics Cloud Security for Global Business Project Big Green
Enabling Productivity
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35%
16%
FROM 2003 to 2015...
TRANSFORM % +17 pts
Note: E/R is the ratio of IBM total IT spend to IBM total revenue
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2 0 0 3 2 0 0 4 2 0 0 5 2 0 0 6 2 0 0 7 2 0 0 8 2 0 0 9 2 0 10 2 0 11 2 0 12 2 0 13 2 0 14 2 0 15
R u n T ra n s fo rm IB M E /R
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Support IBM’s 2015 Financial Roadmap Enabling Productivity
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Enabling Change
• Transformational Leadership
• Values-based Culture
• Organizational Change
Management
Enabling Change
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What we’ve done Why?
Transformational Leadership
• Created a collective leadership force of senior
leaders accountable to integrate IBM and lead by
Values (Integration & Values Team or I&VT)
• Deployed Business Leadership Model which
links strategy to execution
• Identified critical roles and built multi-year talent
pipelines
• Refreshed a core set of leadership
competencies for all IBMers
• Defined a new Leadership Framework focused
on business results and employees’ experience
• Need to develop global leaders for the
21st Century who:
have a global orientation
foster employee engagement
inspire IBMers to think and work together
enable IBMers to execute IBM’s strategy
in the face of uncertainty
Impact
• I&VT leaders model integration and enable key transformation efforts
• IBMers are focused on a set of competencies that are empirically linked to performance
• IBM continues to deliver performance while transforming
IBM ranked #1 in 2011
Global Top Companies for Leaders
Build mutual trust
Influence through expertise
Continuously transform
Communicate for impact
Help IBMers succeed
Embrace challenge
Partner for clients’ success
Collaborate globally
Act with a systemic
perspective
IBMers at our Best: Our Competencies
Enabling Change
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What we’ve done
Why?
• Needed to re-establish a set of Values as the core of IBM’s culture and brand
• Expanding the IBM brand experience beyond products to integrated solutions and people
• Evolving the IBM management system to leverage global / cross unit integration
Values-based Culture
• Engaged employees globally in Values Jam to refresh our Values (2003)
• Conducted World Jam with employees to collaborate on solutions for growth, innovation and
bringing the Values to life (2004)
• Resulted in a set of new core values defined by IBM’s workforce
• Created Values that are integral to our performance, recognition and talent management
systems
• Engaged leaders at all levels on enabling our Values-based culture locally and globally
ValuesJam 2003
Enabling Change
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What we’ve done Why?
• IBM is in a constant state of
transformation, engaged in a stream of
concurrent initiatives
• Some IBM initiatives have experienced
uneven adoption and impact
• Need for a disciplined change
management capability on key
transformational initiatives
Organizational Change Management
• Launched a Center of Excellence to provide
leaders with Organizational Change Mgmt.
advisory services
• Deployed a common method and tools: Better
Change for IBM
• Strengthening change management capability
of our leaders and teams, globally
• Embedding change management discipline
into key transformation projects
• Created a worldwide on-line community of
change management practitioners
• Using social business technologies to engage
IBMers in transformation
Impact
Change management is recognized by leaders as improving adoption and business impact:
“The change mgmt. plan allowed local leaders to deploy aggressive coverage model changes while minimizing
business disruption and driving adoption…instrumental in early success.” - VP, Sales Coverage “Our project required Brands and Geographies to agree on common priorities for the good of the enterprise.
Stakeholder alignment as a part of change management was ongoing and critical for success.”
- VP, BT/IT Enterprise Transformation
Enabling Change