More than 500 Enterprises Globally Turn to IBM Garage

IBM announced that more than 500 businesses around the world have chosen the IBM Garage to help them power their digital reinventions with hybrid cloud and AI. Companies, including ADP, Cemex, the Kraft Heinz Company and the Government of Nova Scotia, are leveraging the IBM Garage to help create cultures of open collaboration and continuous learning and to drive lasting business outcomes.

As companies continue to drive digital reinvention, more of their mission-critical business applications and workloads are shifting to the cloud so they can build, adopt and scale AI while also becoming more agile and responsive to changing market and client demands. While this is creating great opportunity to fuel innovation, it is also creating the need to transform workflows across a hybrid cloud environment and change their culture as they apply new technologies.

The IBM Garage has helped businesses rapidly move from idea generation to enterprise scale adoption as they introduce new revenue streams and business models, transform workflows and reinvent customer experiences for the era of hybrid cloud and AI. Additionally, the Garage accelerates how clients unlock insights and business outcomes by helping them to modernize existing applications with advanced cloud services like AI, blockchain and IoT.

"In the next chapter of digital reinvention, the ability to innovate at scale will be the difference between success and failure. This requires a fundamental shift in how companies work," said Mark Foster, Senior Vice President, IBM Services and Global Business Services. "The IBM Garage is our approach to help organizations drive purposeful innovation and transformational change at the speed of a start-up and at the scale of an enterprise.

Through the combination of the right people, applied technology and new ways of working, the Garage can help businesses jumpstart innovation by tapping into technologies like AI, automation and blockchain on the cloud into the context of customer journeys, critical workflows, pain points and value potential. Teams of IBM professionals with diverse expertise sit shoulder-to-shoulder with clients to develop new ideas, prove adoption and business case with a minimum viable product then advance that MVP into day-to-day operations and workflows.

The method also incorporates Enterprise Design Thinking, is built for Agile principles for co-located and distributed teams and leverages DevOps tools and techniques for continued delivery and operations. In collaborative spaces designed to be a break from the everyday, traditional silos are eliminated and participants are encouraged to learn by doing, fail fast and iterate often, inspiring organizational change and buy-in.