How CEO Ginni Rometty Is Reshaping IBM

Virginia "Ginni" Rometty is helping to reshape IBM into "the incumbent disruptor." The chairman, president and CEO is betting the 108-year-old stalwart can fit that bill by leveraging IBM Watson's artificial intelligence capabilities across many of its products including the IBM cloud, utilizing blockchain technology to better track and trace products within global supply chains, and commercializing quantum computing. It's all about truly harnessing the power of data increasingly being fed into these systems, Rometty said at IBM Think 2018 conference. "When you learn exponentially, you become the disruptor, instead of the disrupted," she said. Perhaps the Armonk, N.Y-based company's biggest bet is Watson's AI-enhanced technologies, which is being used to solve an increasingly wide range of business problems, Rometty said.