February 2011
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Corporate Service Corps →
The IBM Corporate Service Corps (CSC) program was launched in 2008 to create leadership development opportunities for IBMers while delivering expertise-based service for the communities and…
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Survey: 85% of Employees Under 25 Use Personal... →
This week the email management company Mimecast released the results of a survey of more than 2,400 corporate email users. The survey found that 85% of what Mimecast dubs “Generation Gmail” - employees 25 years old and younger - have used personal email accounts to send work-related documents.
The main reason these workers turn to personal email seems to be the attachment size limits of their...
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The IBM Punched Card →
From the beginning of tabulation, stiff rectangular cards punched with holes became the way data was recorded and stored. As IBM grew to dominate data processing by the 1920s, its cards—which only…
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Danny Wong: The Less-Tangible ROI of Social Media →
Source: Huffington Post
When business people think about anything worth investing in, whether it be dollars or time, they usually only consider the dollar return-on-investment (ROI) amount that the project will produce. Simple metrics can usually be utilized in considering the potential ROI on campaigns, but for more complicated projects where ROI isn’t so clear, like social media, it...
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The Internet of everything →
The CEOs of Qualcomm, Nokia, RIM and NTT Docomo were brought together during last week’s Mobile World Congress, in Barcelona, for a panel discussion to offer a 360-degree view of the future of consumer electronics.
“Looking back 10 years ago, a phone was just a phone and voice was the killer app. A phone is now more than just a device to talk on, it is a device to compute with,” said...
The First Corporate Pure Science Research... →
“Think” was at the core of Watson’s being. In 1944, he established the Watson Scientific Computing Laboratory at Columbia University, the first corporate laboratory dedicated to pure scientific…
The Invention of On-Demand Data →
In the mid-1960s, IBM researcher Bob Dennard developed the world’s first one-transistor memory, calling it “dynamic random access memory,” or DRAM. Finally, mainframes could be outfitted with…
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The Big Thirst: Charles Fishman on Everything... →
Above is a sneak peak at Charles Fishman’s new book, The Big Thirst, his globe-trotting tour de force on water—the world’s most precious and least understood resource. The golden age of water—an age when water was clean, cheap, and abundant—is coming to an end, says Fishman, a Fast…
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Automated Test Scoring →
IBM pioneered the measurement of academic performance with 1937’s IBM 805 Test Scoring Machine. This machine was able to score tests in less time than it took to manually mark the answer sheet, and…
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Ford Taps Cloud-Based Prediction Market
The cloud-based system from Inkling helps Ford Motor decide which new ideas are worth pursuing. Would you like an in-car vacuum?
Source: InternetNews.com
Ford Motor Company’s stock price on the New York Stock Exchange has almost doubled in the past year, but that’s not the only stock market the company has interest in. The car maker is also tapping a cloud-based prediction market...
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As collaboration goes social, where will it...
Source: Dion Hinchcliffe, ZDNet
Recently at Lotusphere 2011 IBM analyst Carol Gavin turned heads when she underscored the vast size of the still somewhat nascent social collaboration market. It is at least $100 billion, and perhaps more. While Enterprise 2.0, and more recently Social Business, have been the talk of many in the industry the last few years, the perceived importance of better...
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System 360: From Computers to Computer Systems →
Few products in history have had the massive impact that the IBM System/360 has had—on technology, on the way the world works, or on the organization that created them. The System/360 ushered in the…
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The Optimization of Global Railways →
IBM’s first customer in Italy, the Italian state-owned Ferrovie dello Stato (Italian Railways) turned to IBM in 1928 to automate its administrative processes. The result was an inventory of spare…
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Why Using Tumblr For Class Makes Sense →
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In the last couple of months, I’ve used Tumblr as the primary destination for students of a class I teach at Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. The class is on using social media as a journalist. I want to expand on this a bit more in a follow-up post, but there are a few quick…
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WatchIBM Apps: Smarter Planet & The Social Business
And overview of the new mobile apps for IBM’s Smarter Planet and The Social Business initiatives.
Includes QR Codes for connecting directly with your mobile device.
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IBM Brings Social Business to the Cloud, Mobile Devices
“A shift is occurring in the enterprise. The adoption of social software is rapidly becoming a vital business tool, enabling organizations to transform virtually every part of their business operations from marketing, customer service and sales, to product development and human resources. Social business offers the world of possibility that...
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Will Social Networks and Sharing Change Our... →
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A Computer Called Watson →
IBM’s latest supercomputer, code-named “Watson” leverages the leading edge Question-Answering technology, allowing the computer to process and understand natural language. It incorporates massively…
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“Atefeh “Atti” Riazi says she is a big believer in gut instinct. But...”
– Business intelligence, analytics help CIO challenge collective wisdom
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WatchIn addition to the iPhone app now available in the Apple App Store, and the Smarter Planet and The Social Business apps on the Android Market, you can text yourself a link to download the Smarter Planet app customized by GetJar for other phones such as Nokia (Symbian) Palm (WebOS) and 2,100 smartphone models.
Rise of the Internet →
IBM has always been a forerunner of using technology to share and connect information. In 1987, the US National Science Foundation selected IBM and two other companies to develop a high-speed network…
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RAMAC: The First Magnetic Hard Disk →
The world’s first hard disk drive was the size of two kitchen refrigerators set side by side. It contained 24 disks spinning at 1,200 revolutions per minute, supplying data at 100,000 bits per…
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Social Business: You May Be Losing More Than... →
Take a look around. Be honest with yourself, truly honest, in this moment. Are you a dinosaur? Well not you, but your business. Are you becoming one? Don’t be offended. Do you have employees, how many? What’s their median age? Thinking, thinking…
Leveraging social media is about much more than just trying to engage your customers, existing and prospective. You also have to ensure your ...
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Social Business Design | Dachis Group →
Challenges to Organizational Transformation
Legacy Structures
New trends, no matter how revolutionary, must still overcome the limitations of the past before becoming fully adopted. In organizations, legacy systems and platforms, cultural elements, and governance requirements all work to limit the willingness to experiment and innovate.
Information Should Empower: Increased openness and ...
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Excimer Laser Surgery →
In 1981, three IBM scientists—Rangaswamy Srinivasan, James Wynne and Samuel Blum—discovered how the newly invented excimer laser could remove specific human tissue without harming the surrounding…
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Social Entrepreneur Speaker Bill Strickland Joins... →
For the past three decades, speaker Bill Strickland has been transforming the lives of thousands of adults and teenagers through his innovative jobs training and education centers. Last seen in the public education documentary Waiting for Superman, Bill has just been chosen as one of…
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Pinch me. Social Business has arrived. →
Source: ITInsider
I am here on the ground at IBM’s gala Lotusphere annual event. If I didn’t see it for my own eyes, I wouldn’t believe it. Social Business is all the rage and the main storyline IBM is taking to its customers going forward.
IBM Executives are describing “social” as the next wave in enterprise computing:
Mainframe > Departmental > PC > Internet > Social
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“The correlation between the adoption of social capabilities and business success...”
– IBM Social Business Jam 8-12 - Register here (via horizonwatching)
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22% of Online Americans Used Social Networking or... →
In 2010 social media continued to become a prominent political tool. While in 2008 it was used as a means of simple engagement in 2010 it became an expected form of communication. In the months leading up to the mid-term elections 22% of online adults used social media sites to connect with campaigns.
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