IBM Garage
Where innovation and transformation come together for the enterprise
Introduction
IBM Garage™ is an end-to-end model for accelerating digital transformation. It helps you generate innovative ideas and equips you with the practices, technologies and expertise to rapidly turn those ideas into business value.
When you work with IBM Garage you bring customer pain points into focus. You empower your team to take manageable risks. You adopt leading technologies, speed up product development and measure the value of everything you do. IBM Garage creates a partnership with you to develop and deploy resilient solutions, grow your capabilities, and support your business. Your IBM Garage experience can meet the unique needs of your organization, whether it’s helping you respond quickly to disruption or guiding your full-scale transformation.
IBM Garage clients benefit from generating 10x more innovative ideas, slashing 67% off delivery timelines, putting 6x as many projects into production, and driving 102% average ROI.*
The IBM Garage experience
Co-innovation
A prescriptive approach
IBM Garage charts your transformation journey with an iterative framework that guides you from ideation, to build, to scale.
Co-create defines your vision. Co-execute proves the value of your vision. Co-operate scales your solution and your team's capabilities.
Methodology
Proven practices
The IBM Garage Methodology guides how you work by bringing together an open, seamless set of practices with a human-centric, outcome-first approach. By applying design thinking, agile development and DevOps tools and techniques, you'll learn new skills and master new ways of working.
Technology
Technology with a purpose
IBM Garage opens the door to IBM and partner technologies, and ensures your solution has the right architecture to build secure, resilient and scalable infrastructure and applications. IBM Garage is fluent in hybrid cloud and AI, with deep expertise in application modernization, data science, automation, security, blockchain, IoT, edge computing and more.
Speed
Speed to value
With early expertise in emerging technologies, the IBM Garage is equipped with exclusive solution accelerators. Beyond our methodology, these include the IBM Cloud® Architecture Center, our value measurement framework, code pattern and design libraries, and rigorous insight into technical innovations and trends — all to enable you to benefit from industry best practices and maximize speed to value.
Scale
Enterprise scale
The difference between innovation and transformation is scale. IBM Garage solutions are designed to grow to handle enterprise-grade workloads, thrive in multicloud environments and protect against increasingly complex external threats.
IBM Garage also advances workforce modernization, helping you scale new ways of working throughout your organization and grow the skills of your team.
Expertise
Multidisciplinary expertise
Your IBM Garage team is populated with designers, architects, developers, business strategists and industry thought leaders. Working with IBM Garage means you have flexible access to the experts you need, anywhere you need them.
Partnership
We work with you — not for you
IBM Garage is not conventional consulting. It is a collaborative exchange of ideas, knowledge, experimentation and support. As a true partner, IBM Garage is dedicated to making sure that your business is more robust and your team is more capable, just for having worked with us.
Real impact
See what experts are saying about the value of IBM Garage
Forrester thought leadership paper
To achieve results, companies must bring innovation and transformation together.
Forrester TEI study and calculator
Learn about the cost savings of IBM Garage, and use the calculator to model your outcomes.
Forrester and IBM Garage webinar
Forrester analysts share key insights from two recent innovation and transformation studies.
Client stories
Meet with an IBM Garage expert
Schedule a free 30-minute conversation with one of our IBM Garage experts to understand how we can accelerate digital transformation for your business. Get answers to questions such as "How can IBM Garage help me:"
- React more nimbly to disruption?
- Adopt cloud and AI technology?
- Get projects into market more quickly?
- Better address my business' pain points or customer needs?
- Grow an innovation culture within my organization?
Resources
Expert perspectives
IBM Garage: Public sector innovation and transformation
Digitization in the public sector was important before COVID-19, but now it's non-negotiable.
Make “human experience” your organizational compass
Companies must shift from narrow customer-centric approaches to improving the lives of everyone they interact with — including employees and business partners.
Adopting new technology: Go for mission-critical workloads
What type of initial workload should you focus on when adopting new technology? We'll explain why you shouldn’t quickly rule out mission-critical workloads.
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* “The Total Economic Impact Of IBM Garage”, a commissioned study conducted by Forrester Consulting, October 2020