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Ginni Rometty talks about building inclusive companies and her tenure at IBM
exponential curve instead of just a linear one ," said Rometty in 2018 . " The first was called Moore ' s Law . It said that chips and processing would double every 18 months . That led to the automation of everything as we know it , the back offices of the world .
" Then there was Metcalfe ' s Law , which says the value of a network is equal to the square of the nodes on the network . That is what gave rise to the platform companies , be it Facebook or Google .
" So , maybe this one will one day be called Watson ' s Law – after IBM ' s name for our artificial intelligence – and it will help people outlearn ."
After pursuing many approaches , including medical diagnosis capabilities , Watson is now focusing its function as a set of tools to build A . I . -based applications , such as those utilised for accounting , payments , technology operations , marketing and customer service . Rometty announced a slight increase in
IBM ' s revenue in 2020 , after a long period
of struggle since 2014 , and retired from her President and Chief Executive Officer roles at the Big Blue on April 6 , 2020 , yet remained as Executive Chairman of the Board until December 31 , 2020 . She was replaced by Arvind Krishna , previously IBM ' s Senior Vice President for Cloud and Cognitive Software . " For years , others have tried to define us , from our competitors to analysts to the media . But none of them have the power to write IBM ' s story . Only you can do that . IBMers define who we are . We are the hybrid cloud and AI company ," Rometty said in her farewell . " IBM is becoming a growth company , and IBMers need to continue getting comfortable being uncomfortable , learning new skills and practising new ways of working ."
Leading in diversity and inclusion Rometty endorsed diversity and aimed to reinvent education worldwide , such as with the six-year Pathways in Technology
18 May 2022