June 2010
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The Global Traffic Crisis
Warning: Traffic is hazardous to your health. The time it takes most people to get to work sometimes feels like a job. The starting, the stopping, and rude, angry drivers, can leave a person stressed out before they even arrive to the office. Over the last three years, the daily commute with rising, extreme traffic congestion is becoming more and more painful. Designed to gauge the physical...
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Is your country ready for the digital future?
Countries around the world are confronted with massive shifts – new government regulations, changes in global economic power centers, accelerated industry transformation, growing volumes of data, rapidly evolving customer preferences – that, if not prepared and responded to can make the difference between economic success or years of a downturn. One of the catalysts of this change is that the...
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IBM and Esty Environmental Partners join with 12... →
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Thirteen major companies, all leaders in their industries, have formed the Sustainability Innovators Working Group — aiming to define and develop state-of-the-art approaches for environmental management and corporate sustainability. Esty Environmental Partners (EEP), the organizer of the group and a premier sustainable business consulting firm, and IBM, a participant and supporting...
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“Irving Wladawsky-Berger, a former senior executive at IBM, responsible for...”
– IBM Study: Millennials And The New Corporate Leaders - Social Responsibility Is Essential - SVW
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Prasad Kaipa, Navi Radjou, Jaideep Prabhu, Simone Ahuja: Leadership in the Age of Scarcity
Based on a survey with over 3600 graduate and undergraduate students worldwide, IBM’s recently released Global Student Study 2010 compares side by side the value system, mindset, and management style of future leaders with those of current generation CEOs. The findings supplement insights from their...
Future Leaders and Global Business Values: The IBM... →
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How do the views of today’s students and CEOs differ with regard to business on a shared planet? IBM has engaged with the Council’s Carnegie New Leaders and the Workshops for Ethics in Business…
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Today’s university students are extremely concerned with issues of globalization and sustainability, but only four out of 10 believe their education has prepared them to address these issues, according to a new IBM study designed to gauge the attitudes and opinions of the next-generation global workforce and business leaders.
This first-of-its-kind survey — which asked...
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“From the freeways of Los Angeles to the canals of Amsterdam, cities are taking...”
– Fighting Carbon Emissions: Cities Take the Lead - BusinessWeek (via smartercities)
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Inheriting a complex world: Future leaders...
The Institute for Business Value at IBM Global Business Services recently released its biennial CEO study. This year, for the first time, we asked many of the same questions posed to CEOs to college and graduate students worldwide. More than 3600 students participated from over 40 countries.
Students, part of the “millennial” generation, had much in common with CEOs. But for all of the areas of...
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“We can’t solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we...”
– Albert Einstein
from TEDx Sydney Presentation on Sustainable Cities by Rob Adams
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZYJpdH-VGwc
(via laviedelara)
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Emergent Futures Tumblelog: Great Post from Kevin... →
Paul Higgins: I have copied this in full because I could not find a way to link just to the one blog post. You can see Kevin Kelly’s stuff at
http://www.kk.org/kk/
And the better the company…
…the less room there is for devolution.
Everything about a modern organization is dedicated…
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The Reasons "Code for America" is a BFD | Social... →
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Code for America is a program that gives web professionals the chance to spend a year working with municipal data to create applications that improve resource efficiency, change the communication between officials and citizens, and general use their web app skills to improve government.
The program will be centered in the Bay Area, and include a short training program at the...
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WatchHighlights from 2010 CEO Study Student Survey. For the first time, IBM’s biannual CEO Study included the perspectives of 3600 college and graduate students from all over the world. Here’s a sample of some of the insights that this generation of future smarter leaders shared. The full Student Survey results will be published Jun 14th.
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http://augmentedrealityevent.com/
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WatchIBM Global Entrepreneur Initiative
