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What is IBM Garage?

IBM Garage is a global innovation and transformation consultancy from IBM boasting more than 25,000 practitioners worldwide. IBM Garage is a model for accelerating digital transformation at scale that helps users generate innovative ideas and equip them with the practices, technologies and expertise to turn ideas into business value.

IBM Garage aims to bring customer pain points into focus and enables teams to take manageable risks. Users can adopt technologies, speed up product development and measure the value of activities, while IBM Garage supports business goals, whether that’s helping to respond quickly to disruption or guiding full-scale transformation.

The vendor states IBM Garage clients experience 10x more innovative ideas, 67% faster speed to outcomes, 6x as many projects into production and 102% ROI.

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IBM Garage can work with you virtually, in IBM Garage and IBM Studio locations, or onsite with your company.
Garages are measured on outcomes, not outputs, but it's not always easy to express exactly how much value an individual opportunity will provide. The Outcomes tool helps identify and quantify the measurable business outcomes of all types of Garage projects.
By delivering quick pulse checks through anonymous surveys, Squad Insights delivers a strong picture of your team's engagement and allows you to recognize trends and identify steps to improve overall performance.
IBM Garage uses collaborative product development techniques such as pair programming to upskill your team on new technologies.
Enterprise Design Thinking is an important component of nearly every IBM Garage experience. An IBM Garage Design Thinking workshop can help you understand customer pain points, map out critical use cases and business goals, ideate, design hypotheses, and define your MVP.
Your IBM Garage team is populated with designers, architects, developers, business strategists and industry thought leaders.

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IBM cloud Garage transforming a publisher

Incentivized
Sobhan DaliryView profile
CEO in Marketing at NZN (51-200 employees employees)

Pros

  • Understanding the problem from a business perspective
  • Evaluating the problem from a technical perspective
  • Lean methodologies

Cons

  • Timing slots
  • The program should be expandable to outside of IBM offices
  • More dedicated people

Return on Investment

  • Positive ROI, MVP launched in 2 months to validate our hypostesis

Alternatives Considered

IBM Watson Analytics

Usability

Garage will get it done!

Incentivized
Tom PerryView profile
Sr Manager in Engineering (51-200 employees employees)

Pros

  • Creating epics and user stories
  • Helping refine user stories and creating subtasks
  • Design and arch

Cons

  • They should hire experienced developers
  • Should not force their architecture decisions on clients but should provide various alternate options