“Innovating together with your partners is a win-win for both. At Shell, we not only deal with energy, we also need to focus on challenges such as water and food as they’re all interlinked. That’s why driving innovation together, also across industries, is extremely important.†- Quote by Pe… Read full post »

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ibmsocialbiz:

Treating customers as individuals? IBM CEO Study says that means call centers should spend more time on phone instead of measuring how quickly a rep can get off the phone. More videos here. 

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IBM 2012 Global CEO Study: How to understand customers (by IBMIBV)

IBM CEO Study Program Director Anthony Marshall reveals the top ways that CEOs are depending on to get to know and serve their customers better.

IBM leaders including Perter Korsten, Marc Chapman, Anthony Marshall and Saul Berman discuss how CEOs see their organizations getting more and more open, both in terms of how the work internally, how businesses are managed and the role of social technologies in connecting with customers.

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almiron:

IBM’s newest CEO study, which canvassed over 1700 CEOs from around the world, reports that CEOs see social media growing to 57% of their important customer interactions from 16% today.http://seb.tl/ME3umH #domainnames

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ibmsocialbiz:

Inside the head of a CEO from the UK (by IBM UK Research). Find out what CEOs from all over the world think here. 

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Sample some of the brief videos highlighting the 2012 IBM CEO Study.

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The Social Business: IBM Global CEO study charts the course of more social business:

ibmsocialbiz:

In speaking face-to-face with more than 1,700 CEOs, general managers and senior public sector leaders around the globe, we found these leaders confirming the fact that our new connected era is

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Why social business makes marketing better:

ibmsocialbiz:

One outcome of social business, which isn’t talked about much, is how it can enable better marketing — from creating content that matters and the creation of a cross- functional command center for real-time moitoring… to a collaborative

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Can 3D Printing Make Everything We Need? - PSFK

This article titled “Is 3D printing the key to Utopia?†was written by John Naughton, for The Observer on Saturday 12th May 2012 23.05 UTC

You know the problem: the dishwasher that has cleaned your dishes faithfully for 15 years suddenly stops work… Read full post »

Subretinal implant uses light instead of batteries, shows promise in initial testing — Engadget

There’s been significant progress in bringing sight to the blind in recent years, and this looks set to continue that miraculous trend. Scientists at Stanford University have invented a subretinal phot/… Read full post »

Law Firm Uses RFID to Track Every Page of Confidential Documents - RFID Journal

RFID-based document-tracking solutions have become commonplace in such locations as legal and medical offices. But one law firm has taken that solution to a new level, by tagging and tracking every sheet of paper for its… Read full post »

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Navy pilots and other flight specialists soon will have a new “smart machine†installed in training simulators that learns from expert instructors to more efficiently train their students.

Sandia National Laboratories’ Automated Expert Modeling & Student Evaluation (AEMASE, pronounced “a… Read full post »

4 Tips For Starting A Farm In Your City [Video] | Fast Company

Consider this paradox: 49 million Americans live with daily food insecurity, 23 million live in urban food deserts, and collectively we’re all getting fatter. Simultaneously vacant lots, concrete grooves, and other desolate, empty spots… Read full post »

Hertz and IBM Launch Smart Microgrid for Electric Car-Sharing | TPM Idea Lab

IBM’s Ehningen Innovation Center campus in Germany is about to become ground zero for the development of an advanced personal transportation system that combines Hertz’s car sharing know-how with distributed renewable/… Read full post »

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ibmsocialbiz:

Today’s CEO & You

We’ve learned what 1,700 global CEOs think, and are ready to share the results in our 2012 Global CEO Study, launching May 22. Now, tell us what you think! Take this quick poll to answer some of the very same questions we asked

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Inkling will sell iPad textbooks in over 900 college bookstores:

iPad textbook publisher Inkling is partnering with college bookstore provider Follett. Starting this fall, Follett will sell “hundreds of Inkling titles†in its over 900 college bookstores — including Stanford and UC Berkeley —… Read full post »

futurescope:

Wearable brain scanner could give computers insight into how hard you’re thinking

Researchers at MIT and Tufts are experimenting with a way for computers to gain a little insight into our inner world.

Their system, called Brainput, is designed to recognize when a person’s workload

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saveplanetearth:

Rising consumption, increased resource use by a growing population puts unbearable pressure on our Planet – WWF 2012 Living Planet Report @ WWF

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The IBM Connections Suite brings the best of the best communications, content, and social software capabilities into a single platform: microblogging, ideation, instant messaging, web meetings, softphone, blogs, wikis, forums, communities, document libraries, social analytics and much more.This video… Read full post »