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In this interview, Mike Rhodin, Senior Vice President of IBM Watson, discusses World Class IT Principle Four, IT & Business Partnerships. Some of the topics discussed include: • Whether Watson was always planned as a business line, and how things evolved within the Watson idea • The mechanics of Watson, and who is involved with the creation of knowledge for Watson to pull from • The three service offerings, Watson Discovery Advisor, Watson Analytics, and Watson Explorer • Some of the common threads across industries that make them ripe for usage of Watson • Whether there is a traditional functional head who utilizes and procures Watson • The balance between Artificial Intelligence and the safety needed with Artificial Intelligence • The divide between those who are leveraging the Watson platform and those who are/will not • How he sees Watson developing over the next five and ten years