You Need To Prepare Your Business For The Cognitive Age

In the early 1990s, established businesses were blindsided by the disruptive force of the Internet. Even those who invested heavily in IT infrastructure soon found that they had difficulty competing with nimble new upstarts who could deploy web based applications at blinding speed. It was with this in mind that IBM launched its e-business initiative in 1996. Although considered by many at the time to be an aging dinosaur itself -- it was close to bankruptcy three years earlier -- it was able to leverage its expertise in legacy systems to transform business processes and prepare its customers for the Internet age. Today a similar tidal wave of disruption is sweeping through the corporate world -- artificial intelligence -- and, once again, IBM sees a big opportunity.