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• in Technology
  IBM Launches MobileFirst: Will Apple or Samsung Follow?
  IBM Expands to Mobile Services and Apps
  by ecoleader / on Feb 23, 2013

Latest blogosphere posts tagged “smarter planet”

 

• Strengthening Environmental Responsibility Throughout the Supply Chain

  
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  Mike Ray, Vice President, Business Integration & Transformation, Integrated Supply Chain, IBM By Mike Ray It started 40 years ago, before it was trendy or being taught in business school.   Thomas J. Watson, Jr., IBM Chairman at the time, said: “We accept our responsibilities as a corporate citizen in ...
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• How Accra, Ghana, is Taking Steps to Become an African Success Story

  
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  Alfred Vanderpuije, Mayor of Accra, Ghana By Alfred Vanderpuije This week at the World Economic Forum on Africa in Cape Town , leaders will come together to discuss Africa’s future. One of the three focus themes is the importance of ‘Strategic Infrastructure’ as a foundation for the continent’s growth. ...
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• How to Build Innovation Ecosystems in Africa

  
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  Takreem El-Tohamy, GM, IBM Middle East and Africa By Takreem El-Tohamy There’s a wonderful word in Swahili that I think expresses one of the imperatives for the future of Africa. The word is “harambee.” It means pulling together, collaborating and supporting each other. I believe that one of the key factors ...
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• The Rise of the Data Scientist in the Smarter Planet

  
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  James Kobielus, Senior Program Director, Big Data Evangelist, IBM By James Kobielus Big Data is a bit like our solar system. It’s a brilliant system of information and analysis that emerges from the inchoate gas, dust, rocks and crystals known as “data.” Cloud computing is the galaxy wherein the stars, ...
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• When Governments Go Social, Positive Citizen Experiences Can Follow

  
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  Larry Bowden, Vice President, Web Experience Software, IBM By Larry Bowden  When people talk about “social” adoption, the conversation usually doesn’t shift to government. But maybe it should.  Today a growing number of cities and counties are embracing social technologies to create “Smart ...
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• Helping Retailers Take On the Mobile Challenge

  
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  Jill Puleri, Vice President, Global Retail Leader, IBM By Jill Puleri These are crucial times for brick-and-mortar retailers as they evolve to put the consumer at the center of all that they do. Those that make good decisions are going to prosper; those who don’t are going to slip to the back. Central to ...
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• Decisions on Demand: How Big Data Analytics is Transforming the Way Industries Run

  
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  Deepak Advani, General Manager, Cloud and Smarter Infrastructure, IBM By Deepak Advani The Internet Age has made it possible for dramatic amounts of information to be available at our fingertips. And as capacity expands and accessibility grows, we push ever closer to the   Internet-of-things , where our ...
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• Celebrating Math and the Numerati

  
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  Steve Hamm, IBM Writer By Steve Hamm When Brenda Dietrich joined IBM with a newly-minted PhD in operations research 30 years ago, she ran into a buzz saw of ignorance about the role that math could play in business. She offered her  expertise to an IBM manufacturing group in Poughkeepsie, New York, but was ...
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• Nigeria’s Keystone Bank Enters the Era of Smarter Banking

  
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  Ademola Adewale, Executive Director, Operations & Technology, Keystone Bank Limited By Ademola Adewale The next phase of banking sector reforms and consolidations in Africa’s most populous nation will be driven, not by the industry regulator or by industry or market forces but, by technology, technology ...
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• Why Make the Atom Movie? To Get Kids Excited About Science and Technology

  
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  Andreas Heinrich, Team Leader, IBM Research, Almaden By Andreas Heinrich It wasn’t my idea to make the world’s smallest movie, but I’m really glad we did. I hope that the two-minute video animation, A Boy and his Atom, which was made by painstakingly moving individual atoms on a microscopic surface to ...
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• Tablets in the Classroom: How Mobile is Driving New Wave of Digital Learning

  
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  Mike King, Vice President, Global Education Industry, IBM By Mike King The age of the heavy textbook-filled backpacks and printed syllabi is coming to an end. It’s self-evident that the higher education marketplace has been transitioning to digital content and collaborative learning programs for years. Up ...
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• How Small Businesses in South Africa are Taking Social to the Next Level

  
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  Gary Swale, Director, Knowledge Dimension, an IBM Business Partner By Gary Swale and Sandy Carter Small businesses can no longer ignore the impact of going social.      In fact, more than 6.1 million South Africans are on Facebook with 100,000 new members registering each month, generating 800 million ...
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• IBM’s Big Data Strategy: the sum of the parts

  
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    In researching our new book, Big Data for Dummies , it became clear that Big Data is not simply about a specific tool or technique for Big Data analytics.  You would never know this by examining the hype around this emerging market.  Yes, Hadoop is important but it not the entire big data ecosystem.  Big ...
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• Rick Padinha: A Career and a Business Philosophy with Roots in the Space Program

  
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  Rick Padinha, GM, IBM Global Operations and Delivery Excellence By Rick Padinha I’m one of those people who bleed IBM blue. I started working for the company in 1969 at the office in Huntsville, Ala., where we supported NASA, the US National Aeronautics and Space Agency. I have held many IBM jobs since then, ...
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• Marketing with a Purpose Means Knowing Your ‘Why’

  
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  I’ve written a lot about knowing your core purpose and telling that story in marketing. It’s your most important one. And I’ve had a number of conversations recently on this exact topic. So the blog post below is an updated version of the original piece I wrote about 1.5 years ago: Great Marketing Answers the ...
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• Meet Lisa Seacat DeLuca: Another Person for a Smarter Planet

  
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  Lisa Seacat DeLuca, Software Engineer, Advanced Cloud Solutions; IBM Master Inventor By Chris Nay FYpacW4XW ZYVW4Vpac FFpacD3TW ZYVWMVT FYTW4XC YFpacW4XW pacFpacV5TW Notice a pattern in these codes? Don’t feel bad if you don’t. They’re from 1994’s “Pac Man 2: The New Adventures.” The kids playing the ...
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• Using Big Data to Close the Insurance Trust Gap

  
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  Christian Bieck, IBM Institute for Business Value, Insurance Leader By Christian Bieck The most urgent and strategic initiative that I currently discuss with insurers is that of “Customer Centricity.” That’s because a lot of insurers are having a hard time understanding their customers, many of whom are ...
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• A Giant Step Forward for the Internet of Things and Big Data

  
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  Andy Stanford-Clark, IBM Master Inventor Andy Stanford-Clark, an IBM Master Inventor who lives in the United Kingdom, jokes that his goal was “world domination” in 1999 when he and Arlen Nipper of Eurotech invented a protocol aimed at greatly improving machine-to-machine communications. This was at the time when ...
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• How Big Data Analytics and Research Will Fuel the Second Wave in the Era of Smart

  
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  David McQueeney, Vice President, Technical Strategy and Worldwide Operations, IBM By David McQueeney Five years ago, IBM launched its Smarter Planet initiative, describing the era in which we currently live and operate in as the “ Era of Smart ,” one marked by forward-thinking leaders in business, government ...
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• Rensselaer’s New Analytics Degree to Help Organizations Better Tackle Big Data

  
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  T. Ravichandran, Associate Dean for Research, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Lally School of Management and Technology By T. Ravichandran Ask anyone in academia about launching a new graduate program and you’ll quickly learn it is no easy task. Foremost among the challenges faced is the need to develop a ...
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