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Driving Cultural Change with IBM President (and former Red Hat CEO) Jim Whitehurst

Technovation with Peter High (CIO, CTO, CDO, CXO Interviews)
Technovation with Peter High (CIO, CTO, CDO, CXO Interviews)
Episode • Dec 10, 2020 • 45m

510: IBM President and former Red Hat CEO Jim Whitehurst discusses

  • The differences in IBM and Red Hat’s culture
  • Why they are looking to inject cultural elements from each other into their own operating models
  • The three cultural characteristics IBM wants to drive: entrepreneurial spirit, growth mindset, and radical candor
  • Why IBM decided to spin out the managed services business
  • Why Red Hat is separate from IBM
  • The importance and potential of AI
  • How IBM thinks about where it’s going to invest versus where it’s going to rely on open source

Among a variety of other topics.

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This episode is sponsored by Sykes

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