While other companies think in terms of quarters or years, IBM thinks in terms of decades—or longer. It’s hardware business may be faltering, but its cloud business is definitely thriving. Its conventional software business is slowing, but it’s also entering a new era for data. Lots of companies are trying to make machines intelligent, but nobody has anything like its Watson Platform.
Source: Innovation Excellence | Reinventing the Future: How IBM Innovates
After all the debate around the 2015 results and Ginni Rometty’s strategy an interesting reading with a lot of truth in it. No further comments on details.