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View ArticleData, the new frontier in digital engagement
Image credit: IBM and Twitter We’ve all complained about it – the explosion of social media activity has become its own self-feeding juggernaut. But, beyond the noise of it all, behind the tweets and...
View ArticleExperiments in Agile
Source: IBM Several years ago, a company I previously worked for hired a team of developers to redesign our outdated website. The website had been built for a previous decade when our company, a...
View ArticleWhat does social do for you? #FridayFun cartoon
As part of our #FridayFun series, we will be sharing one cartoon quote per week from the IBM Social Business study. We asked actual respondents about ways social has improved their business. So think...
View ArticleAerosmith, smart cars and cooking with data at IBM InterConnect
What do you get when you gather over 20,000 techies in Vegas, add in a celebrity chef and sprinkle in a dash of Aerosmith? The whirlwind week that is known as IBM InterConnect, IBM’s new premier cloud...
View ArticleInternational Women’s Day at IBM: Global thought leadership and more
Image credit: IWD March is Women’s History Month and March 8 is International Women’s Day. Every year on this day, thousands of events are held throughout the world to inspire women, celebrate their...
View ArticleWhat would Charles Darwin think of mobile?
By Susanne Hupfer and Megan McNamee According to Charles Darwin’s theory of natural selection, each generation of organisms has variations, and those with traits better suited to the environment will...
View ArticleWearables and IoT: Putting them to work in business
This is part of Bill’s series of posts on the Internet of Things (IoT) topic Are you wearing a fitness tracker right now? Most likely you are. Gartner estimates over 70 million wearable fitness devices...
View ArticleMake the most of your data: Inspirations from Generation D
A few years ago, when ConAgra Mills looked to optimize production across its mills, company executives turned to what might seem an unlikely source—the airline industry. But for ConAgra executives, the...
View ArticleSocial, big data, and the “Snowpocalypse of 2015”
A couple of weeks ago, I hunkered down in my home office, refrigerator fully stocked, preparing for my work day. I checked into “Snowpocalypse 2015” along with some fellow millennial friends on my...
View ArticleWhy security leaders love their jobs
Rather than focusing on the traditional objects of affection on Valentine’s Day, why not celebrate people who are passionate about their jobs? We’ve been talking to a lot of security leaders recently....
View ArticleIBM Executive Interview, Susan Puglia Part 2 [P-TECH intern]
“Young people…are growing up in an environment where peer pressure to connect and share is much greater than concern about their information ending up in the wrong hands.” – Susan Puglia, IBM VP of...
View ArticleTwenty Internet of Things trends to watch in 2015
This is part of Bill’s series of posts on the Internet of Things (IoT) topic The Internet of Things (IoT) is in a stage of adoption very similar to what we saw in 2008-10 around cloud computing and in...
View ArticleThe key to being more secure is being more open
IT security is undergoing a radical transformation. According to 82 percent of the security leaders who participated in the 2014 IBM Chief Information Security Officer Assessment, the very definition...
View ArticleFour key trends for retailers to understand this season
Ho ho ho! Retailers rejoice: ’tis the season to be merry. Those in retail know how critical seasonal sales are. But just how critical? Retailers care a lot about the holidays for a reason – holiday...
View ArticleIBM Executive Interview, Lauren States [P-TECH intern]
Lauren States, VP, Strategy & Transformation, IBM Software Group “We are living in a generation of technologies where this combination of technologies will solve the “unsolvable” problems facing...
View ArticleGreetings from the cloud – IT Director Postcard #CloudBound Quote
To: Organizations that outsource, Greetings from the cloud from a Senior IT Director As part of a #MondayMotivation series, we will be sharing one postcard quote per week from the IBM Cloud bound...
View ArticleIoT (Internet of Things) will go nowhere without cloud computing and big data...
This is part of Bill’s series of posts on the Internet of Things (IoT) topic In my last post on this topic, I discussed how advances in connectivity and networks and in sensor and microprocessor design...
View ArticleIBM Executive Interview, Mike Rhodin [Biz Leader Latte]
Mike Rhodin, Sr VP, IBM Watson Group (Image credit: IBM) “Watson can achieve in nine minutes what it would take 30 doctors a month to do…we’re actually revolutionizing entire industries and professions...
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