Written by Jesus Mantas, Global Head of Strategy and Offerings, IBM Global Business Services. This article was republished courtesy of the World Economic Forum...
IBMers Jesus Mantas and Rashida Hodge followed to share their personal and professional experiences around diversity and inclusion. The tone Jesus took for his talk centered around belief. He told the audience that he believes diversity matters, and organizations can’t believe for you. They can help and support, but the believing is up to you. “I’m fortunate to work at an organization where diversity and inclusion is a strategy, not a consequence...”
How can AI help you fight back? In this final episode in our series of videos exploring today’s changing Telecommunications and Media landscape, we look at how the rise of exponential technologies (such as AI) - are forcing organizations to re-evaluate the way they do business...Featuring...Jesus Mantas, Global Head of Strategy & Offerings, IBM GBS
Essentially, “Uberization” is overrated, according to Jesus Mantas, global leader of strategy and offerings for IBM Global Business Services. “This is a good insight into the age of so much noise about the small eating the big,” Mantas said. “It’s actually the big waking up and saying ‘I’m incumbent, I have the information, the relationships, and the insight, I can learn to be digital, and now I can strike back with a much better equation than the new entrants have.'”
Everyone knows that technology startups and outsiders are hammering incumbent businesses in fields like transportation (Uber), hospitality (Airbnb) and retail (Amazon). But everyone's wrong, according to the 19th IBM Global C-suite Study, released Monday. "Incumbents are striking back," Jesus Mantas, global leader of strategy and offerings, IBM Global Business Services, tells Enterprise Cloud News.