May 2011
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“While we talk of humanizing our brand and our business or becoming a more...”
– Customer-Centricity Begins With Creating A Culture Of Change | CMO.com
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WatchTony Schwartz, MIX Maverick and author of The Way We’re Working isn’t Working, shares four simple but powerful changes you can make today to ramp up your productivity, creativity, and well-being.
Paul Higgins: I have been involved in the MIX on a management hackathon project and have both enjoyed the experience and been given lots of ideas and different perspectives. On top of that there is lots...
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“To truly capitalize on social collaboration, it must be fully integrated into...”
– IBM Social Business Jam Report
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Kickstarter's philosophy →
In the past year, we’ve heard more and more about Kickstarter, a crowd-funding site that helps lift ideas off the ground.
“Money is always a big starting block for people.” Kickstarter’s co-founder Yancy Stickler said. “Take your idea and turn it out to the world.”
His crowd-funding startup…
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The Social Business Infographic →
This social business infographic was created to illustrate the social customer’s impact on business operations. It also encompasses most of what is discussed in my upcoming book, Smart Business, Social Business. The infographic starts off defining the social customer and social business. The social business declaration is defined; and then discusses the three pillars that make up a collaborative...
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Is Content Curation the New Community Builder?
Media Curation is a complex subject among media professionals, with notable professionals both for and against the practice. Mark Cuban, a well known owner of media properties and sports teams has said that media Aggregators are “vampires” and content creators that don’t ban these so-called vampires are “showing their neck” and likely to have their lifeblood sucked try.
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The Origins of Computer Science →
At the end of World War II, the Watson Scientific Computing Laboratory at Columbia University became a pioneering powerhouse, marrying academics with corporate research and development. One year…
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Fractal Geometry →
In 1967, IBM researcher Benoît Mandelbrot published the initial findings of what he would later describe as “fractal geometry”—a concept by which mankind could use mathematical properties to describe…
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Has Remote Work Killed Collaborative Creativity? →
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Interesting article by Georgina Laidlaw
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How social media and big data will unleash what we... →
Today social media generates more information in a short period of time than was previously available in the entire world a few generations ago. Making sense of it and understanding what it means for your business will require all new technologies and techniques, including the emerging field of big data.
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Business goes social: Sharing within the corporate... →
The Facebooking CEO and executives on Twitter, speaking their minds in 140 characters or less, sharing links and status updates seem anathema to the rigid structure of the business environment that puts prime emphasis on data and communications privacy.
However, social media is the new art of conversation and business is taking notice. There are, however, applications that incorporate the ...
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Making An Intranet More Social - Some Options From... →
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Next Step for Social Business - Making ERP social... →
For me this is one of the most amzing challenges we have to face today. We are in the process of finding our needs.
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by Gautam Ghosh on 05/11/2011 00:05 0 comments , 931 views Categories: …
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Social Business webcast series kicks off next week...
Want to understand more about social business and IBM’s role in this emerging space? Some of the major practioners will be presenting latest thoughts, concepts and applications in a webinar series that kicks off next week.
From May 17 to June 14, topics covered will include a definition of social business (a hot topic given the latest round of presentations by Deloitte’s @ChrisHeuer), the...
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Magnetic Tape Storage →
In the late 1940s, inspired in part by Bing Crosby’s pioneering use of magnetic tape to record his radio shows, IBM engineers started experimenting with tape as a data storage successor to the…
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The Invention of Service Science →
Just as IBM in the 1940s helped create the academic discipline of computer science, so the company is again extending scientific rigor to key emerging dimensions of a changing world. With the world’s…
Take State of Enterprise 2.0 Collaboration Survey... →
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via @ELSUA ~ A KM Blog Thinking Outside The Inbox by Luis Suarez
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How Real-Time Marketing Technology Can Transform... →
Market research used to be a calming activity, like a relaxing game of golf. You would see some trend in the market and commission a survey or some other form of research. A couple of months or more would go by as you played a few more holes. Then you would get an answer. No rush. No hurry. No worry about how much the market changed between the time of your insight until the time you answered...
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“If you’re saying that people are important, that businesses are inherently...”
– Andrew McAfee | quoted on Engaged Learning
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Need a favor? There's a site for that. →
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Editor’s note: The following is a guest post from CNNMoney producer Allie Bell, who cheerily covers our 5:30 a.m. shift and works on the site’s social media.
Favo.rs is a beta site that allows users to crowdsource their appeals for assistance. Part of me wonders if the founders…
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IBM Global Entrepreneur | SmartCamps 2011 →
Looking for global entrepreneurs who want to build a smarter planet
SmartCamp is an exclusive event aimed at identifying early stage entrepreneurs who are developing business ventures that align with our IBM Smarter Planet vision.
These mentoring and networking events put entrepreneurs in touch with investment firms, serial entrepreneurs, academics, marketing, communications, and...
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Take MIT Sloan Analytics Survey | Chance to Win... →
How are you and your company dealing with the data deluge? This 20-minute survey, conducted by MIT Sloan Management Review, asks about the information and analytics activities at your company. It builds on our inquiry, begun last year, into the role of data and the new analytics in transforming how companies lead and innovate. (You can read the report on that survey and research on our...
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WatchThe State of Corporate Social Media 2011
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Pioneering Machine-Aided Translation →
IBM developed its first translation system for the League of Nations in 1931. The system was based upon the 1927 Filene-Finlay patent and enabled speech to be translated and read at the same time…
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Two Pakistanis provided Twitter followers first... →
In a dramatic tweet-by-tweet account, Sohaib Athar and Mohsin Shah gave their Twitter followers live coverage of the middle-of-the-night raid on Osama bin Laden’s compound in Pakistan, illustrating the rising importance — and limits — of online social networks.
Athar and Shah began sending out tweets shortly before 1 a.m. in Pakistan, documenting abnormal helicopter flybys, a copter crash,...
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The Constantly Connected Consumer →
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IGF: Financing Technical Innovation →
IBM Global Financing (IGF) enables the world’s leading corporations to implement critical e-business solutions, by offering total solutions financing. Since its inception, it has become the largest…
