IBM Watson's Optimization Strategy

Watson had no epiphanies no voice spoke to him about the future of data processing he didn't have a grand vision for turning IBM into a punch card company. He got there little by little one observation after another over a period of 10 to 12 years if Watson did possess tremendous vision an abdominal will and unswerving determination referencing his own answer to survey that the traits served him by helping him toil through more than a decade of figuring out what his company would be. "The overnight success is largely a myth very few people get it right at the very beginning when I'm reading this"