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Introduction

IBM Garage™ is an end-to-end model for accelerating digital transformation. It helps you generate innovative ideas and equips you with the practices, technologies and expertise to rapidly turn those ideas into business value. 

When you work with IBM Garage you bring customer pain points into focus. You empower your team to take manageable risks. You adopt leading technologies, speed up product development and measure the value of everything you do. We support you in your business goals, whether that’s helping you respond quickly to disruption or guiding your full-scale transformation.

IBM Garage clients experience 10 times more innovative ideas, 67% faster speed to outcomes, 6 times as many projects into production and 102% ROI.¹

The Climate Service + IBM Garage: Weathering Disruption to Deliver Results (03:15)
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The Climate Service + IBM Garage: Weathering Disruption to Deliver Results (03:15)

IBM Garage in action

The IBM Garage experience

Co-innovation

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A proven approach

IBM Garage charts your transformation journey with an iterative framework that guides you from ideation, to build, to scale.

Co-create defines your vision. Co-execute proves the value of your vision. Co-operate scales your solution and your team's capabilities.

Methodology

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Practices that accelerate

The IBM Garage Methodology guides how you work by bringing together an open, seamless set of practices with a human-centric, outcome-first approach. By applying design thinking, agile development and DevOps tools and techniques, you'll learn new skills and master new ways of working.

Technology

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Technology with a purpose

IBM Garage opens the door to IBM and partner technologies, and ensures your solution has the right architecture to build secure, resilient and scalable infrastructure and applications. IBM Garage is fluent in hybrid cloud and AI, with deep expertise in application modernization, data science, automation, security, blockchain, IoT, edge computing and more.

Speed

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Speed to value

With early expertise in emerging technologies, the IBM Garage is equipped with exclusive solution accelerators. Beyond our methodology, these include the IBM Cloud® Architecture Center, our value measurement framework, code pattern and design libraries, and rigorous insight into technical innovations and trends. This enables you to benefit from industry best practices and maximize speed to value.

Scale

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Enterprise scale

The difference between innovation and transformation is scale. IBM Garage solutions are designed to handle enterprise-grade workloads, thrive in multicloud environments and protect against increasingly complex external threats.

IBM Garage also advances workforce modernization, helping you scale new ways of working throughout your organization and grow the skills of your team.

Expertise

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Multidisciplinary expertise

Your IBM Garage team is populated with designers, architects, developers, data scientists, business strategists and industry thought leaders. Working with IBM Garage means you have flexible access to the experts you need, anywhere you need them.

Partnership

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We work with you — not for you

IBM Garage is not conventional consulting. It is a collaborative exchange of ideas, knowledge, experimentation and support. As a true partner, IBM Garage is dedicated to making sure that your business is more robust and your team is more capable, just for having worked with us.

The Total Economic Impact of IBM Garage

Learn about the business benefits and cost savings of IBM Garage in this Forrester study. Use the online calculator to model your own potential results.

Forrester thought leadership paper

Achieve results by bringing innovation and transformation together. Master the culture and discipline required to make innovation at scale a force for business success. (485 KB)

Forrester and IBM Garage webinar

Join Global IBM Garage Leader Debbie Vavangas and Forrester analysts as they share key findings and new insights from two recent innovation and transformation studies.

Client stories

Meet with an IBM Garage expert

Schedule a free 30-minute conversation with one of our IBM Garage experts to understand how we can accelerate digital transformation for your business. Learn how IBM Garage can help you:

  • React more nimbly to disruption
  • Adopt cloud and AI technology
  • Get projects into market more quickly
  • Address your business pain points or customer needs
  • Grow an innovation culture within your organization

Resources

Learn more

IBM Garage Methodology Essentials course

Learn more about IBM Garage methodology, practices, assets and platforms, and earn your first IBM Garage badge.

IBM Cloud Architecture Center

Get solution-based reference architectures, executable code for popular functions, and technical tutorials.

Expert perspectives

IBM Garage: Public sector innovation and transformation

Digitization in the public sector was important before COVID-19, but now it's non-negotiable.

Make “human experience” your organizational compass

Companies must shift from narrow customer-centric approaches to improving the lives of everyone they interact with — including employees and business partners.

Adopting new technology: Go for mission-critical workloads

What type of initial workload should you focus on when adopting new technology? We'll explain why you shouldn’t quickly rule out mission-critical workloads.

Framing session

Team with our experts to reframe business opportunities and find those with the most potential.

Tech discovery session

Consult with solution architects to consider your critical applications, infrastructure and processes.

¹ “The Total Economic Impact Of IBM Garage”, a commissioned study conducted by Forrester Consulting, October 2020