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What I learnt as Big Blue’s chief

IBM’s former CEO and chair is a controversial figure, says the Financial Times. Some credit her with “transforming the century-old US company” – reinventing half its portfolio of businesses, and steaming into the modern worlds of AI and cloud and quantum computing. But others counter that Ginni Rometty was “too slow at taking decisive action” and the figures tell their own story. On her eight-year watch, IBM’s share

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