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In transition: How Kyndryl’s CIO weaned the company off IBM’s systems

CIO Business Intelligence

For Kyndryl CIO Michael Bradshaw, the clock started ticking in November 2021 when the former managed infrastructure services division of IBM was spun out as a separate entity and given two years to disentangle its IT systems from IBM’s. “We We had a 24-month transition services agreement,” he says. We weren’t going to go down that path.”

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8 strategies for accelerating IT modernization

CIO Business Intelligence

Create a framework to guide decisions Michael Bradshaw, who has held the CIO position at Kyndryl since the IT service management company spun off from IBM in 2021, developed a framework around five core guiding principles to facilitate key IT decisions.

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