April 2010
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Exploring the Changing Role of the CIO
As the lines between business and IT blur, CIO’s recognize the critical role service delivery plays in how their companies do business and generate revenue. And, as the world becomes more instrumented, interconnected and intelligent, the way services are designed, delivered and managed is rapidly changing too.
In 2009, IBM conducted in a CIO Study based on surveys of more than 2,500 CIOs. ...
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“IBM’s virtual supercomputer is tapping the unused processors of half a million...”
– How IBM’s World Community Grid is Helping Cure AIDs, Cancer, and World Hunger | Fast Company (via smarterplanet)
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The New Era of Banking
With many economies moving toward recovery, now is the time for banks to chart their course to a new reality. But, where should they begin?
Suzanne Duncan, IBM’s financial markets industry leader, discusses smarter banking and the new era of banking is it acceptance or denial? Read Suzanne’s thoughts by following this link: http://bit.ly/aiNPMn
Additionally, IBM’s Institute for Business...
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“To become a truly connected leader, you must embrace the virtues preferred in...”
– Enterprise 2.0 Changes What Kind Of Leader You Need To Be - Forbes.com
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Worldchanging | 'Resilience and Ruggedness: Why... →
plantedcity:
In the linked article Alex Steffen shares some interesting thoughts on the importance of daylighting the externalities or true costs of our consumption decisions to sustainability in exploring the concept of resilience and arguing that:
1) Defining the scope of resilience is critical.
2) Sustainability needs to be a systemic effort.
3) Ruggedness is something we don’t talk enough...
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Surprise! Four Strategies for Coping with... →
futuramb:
Coping with the unexpected is a leadership imperative. In every endeavor, the ability to recover quickly separates winners from losers, whether they are reacting to fumbles in a sports match or curve balls thrown by external events. I summarize the challenge of managing volatility in a simple equation: MTBS = or < MTMD. MTBS is the mean time between surprises, which is shrinking....
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Smarter Cities: The Future of the City →
The chairman and chief executive of IBM on the change agents of the 21st century.
By Samuel Palmisano | NEWSWEEK
“…. the most important locus for 21st-century innovation—technological, economic, and societal—will be our cities. They present the most promising opportunity to make our planet…
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