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Leading Through Reinvention: How CEOs are using expertise and agentic AI to thrive amid turbulence

67% of CEOs say expertise is key to differentiation. The 2025 IBM CEO Study reveals five bold mindshifts to turn turbulence into opportunity and fuel reinvention with agentic AI.

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Accelerate business growth with hybrid cloud and AI

With a deep understanding of emerging trends and industry disruptions, we uncover untapped potential inside your business and help deliver new levels of productivity and growth. Our strategy consulting services help you align your team around a vision, activate your data and right size roadmaps and technology investments. Our co-creative, human-centric approach helps you realize additional value from existing and emerging technologies, improve decision making and problem solving and increase competitive advantage and long-term, sustainable impact.

Capabilities Business strategy

Define, realize and orchestrate your North Star vision by intersecting business model and technology transformation to unlock enterprise agility.

Sustainability strategy

Our sustainability framework was developed to orient your business towards innovation and growth while amplifying social and cultural initiatives.

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Process Automation & Design

By evaluating and restructuring the fundamentals of how data and work flows across your business we create opportunities for new value.

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AI Strategy

With a team of more than 20,000 AI experts, IBM Consulting™ is working with global clients and partners to co-create what’s next in AI.  

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Hybrid Cloud Strategy

Accelerate your journey to hybrid cloud, driving cost efficiency, increased productivity, sustainability and faster time to market.

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 Operations

Experience-led co-creation that drives business value quickly, modernizes essential business processes, and helps you deploy enterprise-wide AI strategies. 

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Data & Analytics

Data is the fuel for the modern enterprise. Unlock the value of enterprise data and build an insight-driven organization that delivers business advantage.

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Co-create with IBM Garage™
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Ideate, build, measure, iterate and scale solutions seamlessly with our end-to-end framework of design thinking, agile and DevOps practices. Achieve speed-to-value and adopt breakthrough technologies through the partnership created with your team and a diverse set of IBM experts in business, design and technology.

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Case studies
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Kraft Heinz
Kraft Heinz wants to ensure that consumers get the right product at the right time. Using the IBM Garage methodology, we partnered to create an algorithm to improve product velocity.
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Woodside Energy: Steadfast courage in the face of disruption
To decrease operating expenditures in a measured, strategic way, Woodside Energy worked with IBM Consulting on initiatives to scale transformation.
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Anthem: Delivering better insights for better health
IBM’s business strategy consultants worked with Anthem, Inc. to migrate from legacy systems to cloud computing, resulting in savings that could be reinvested in innovation.
When the world needs technology at scale, applied to a really hard problem, they call IBM. And that’s exactly what we did.
James McMahon Chief Executive Officer The Climate Service, Inc.
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Strategic partnerships
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Adobe

IBM and Adobe are helping global clients deliver more personal, flexible and secure customer experiences.

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Amazon Web Services

IBM’s professional services can help migration to and operation on AWS Cloud and help you automate across your business to achieve digital transformation.

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Microsoft Azure

IBM helps tailor a highly-secure hybrid multicloud journey to Microsoft Azure including application modernization and management.

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Salesforce

IBM is a consulting industry leader in using the Salesforce platform to create intelligent experiences to capture new growth opportunities and optimize management processes.

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Oracle

IBM offers industry and business process solutions in consulting by employing Oracle platforms with emerging technologies.

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SAP

IBM provides a full range of SAP consulting and technology optimization solutions to reduce costs and increase agility.

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Government transformation in tumultuous times
Gain a better understanding of how the public sector can emerge stronger and more resilient in the wake of massive disruption
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How CEOs are forging paths to sustainability
Read how CEOs feel about sustainability in their own words and how they are baking it into their business
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How to respond to the increasing costs of cloud: a CIO guide
Cloud costs are on the rise, affecting profit margins, revenue and the total costs of goods sold, making achieving efficiency imperative as organizations scale
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Flexibly orchestrate your people, process, data and technology to efficiently deliver outcomes that future-proof your business.

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Modern businesses require open technologies that unite and align your strategy and process to meaningful automation, AI insights and outcomes.

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IBM iX

With a design-led, data-driven approach, IBM iX is your global experience design partner within IBM Consulting.

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