Jérôme Calmelet, the new president of Kyndryl France, is Guy Hervier’s guest this week. An opportunity for him to reflect on the promising beginnings of his ESN, two and a half years after his split with IBM.
Some were at least dubious two years ago, when IBM divested itself of its outsourcing activities. which undermined its results and its growth capabilities », giving birth Kyndryl. However, after two years of independent existence, the company specialized in IT services has a very positive balance despite the initially sensitive financial situation. The predicted U-shaped trajectory appears to have been confirmed, with a return to revenue growth expected from 2025.
Back to Kyndryl’s achievements and goals, Jérôme Calmelet, President of the French branch, is our guest of the week. This success is explained by the implementation of a three-part strategy: optimization of existing contracts, opening to the ecosystem of technological partners and development of consulting and project activities.
The Kyndryl offering today revolves around Kyndryl Bridgeits automation and observation platform, 6 practices (cloud, artificial intelligence, security, etc.) i Kyndryl Consult to support end-to-end customer transformations. Key partnerships, such as with Nvidia on AI, and with three major cloud hyperscalers complete the system.
Despite challenges such as the war for talent, Jérôme Calmelet is confident and ambitious about the future of Kyndryl, which has managed to retain the best of IBM’s culture while at the same time instilling a new mindset focused on customer service innovation.
With Guy Hervier, he discusses Kyndryl’s strategy to ensure the growth of its consulting and delivery activities as well as the main trends in the IT market, starting with AI, hybrid cloud as well as cybersecurity and data sovereignty issues.