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Jim Kavanaugh

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
202 total appearances

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Motley Fool Money
Interview with IBM CFO Jim Kavanaugh

Now, I think your second question had something to do, I think, around labor or human capital, etc.

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Interview with IBM CFO Jim Kavanaugh

I think around technology and Gen AI.

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Interview with IBM CFO Jim Kavanaugh

Gen AI will influence every workflow, every job, every skill in every industry, without a doubt.

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Interview with IBM CFO Jim Kavanaugh

By the way, revert back to your first part A question.

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Interview with IBM CFO Jim Kavanaugh

In all of those technological inflection shifts that have happened, we have gotten more GDP growth.

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Interview with IBM CFO Jim Kavanaugh

We have gotten more labor and human capital growth.

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Interview with IBM CFO Jim Kavanaugh

Is it in the same areas and disciplines?

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Interview with IBM CFO Jim Kavanaugh

No.

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Interview with IBM CFO Jim Kavanaugh

Because the value equation has to change.

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Interview with IBM CFO Jim Kavanaugh

New industries were created.

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Interview with IBM CFO Jim Kavanaugh

New markets were created.

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Interview with IBM CFO Jim Kavanaugh

New companies were created.

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Interview with IBM CFO Jim Kavanaugh

New skills, new job disciplines were created.

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Interview with IBM CFO Jim Kavanaugh

And that's the evolution, I think, naturally of what technology does.

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Interview with IBM CFO Jim Kavanaugh

I think the same thing is going to happen with AI overall.

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Interview with IBM CFO Jim Kavanaugh

AI will influence.

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Interview with IBM CFO Jim Kavanaugh

Now you bring it back, and I think I remember your third part of your equation around consulting.

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Interview with IBM CFO Jim Kavanaugh

By the way, I would argue today that is a huge differentiator in the IBM company because we are the only integrated information technology company that brings an innovative tech stack across hardware, software, services, platforms, AI, hybrid cloud, quantum, with a consulting business at scale

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Interview with IBM CFO Jim Kavanaugh

across 175 countries that drives platform adoption and scale overall.

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Interview with IBM CFO Jim Kavanaugh

I will tell you in AI, let me bring it home to myself, because not only as CFO, I have the fiduciary responsibilities for the company.