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Welcome to the Era of “New Collar” Jobs
For a cognitive and cloud platform company like IBM, the STEM Discovery Week (24-30 April) is the perfect moment to reflect on the opportunities business-education collaboration offers to schools and companies to improve STEM teaching, learning and careers and on the evolving STEM skills as we enter the digital world. Three things are true in STEM: […]
Wanted: Wild Ducks who are in for a Cognitive Challenge
The one thing that’s always in the back of every entrepreneur’s mind is how to serve his/her customers even better. It is in our mind, it is in the mind of our Business Partners. Cognitive adds value to the customers. The cognitive solutions market represents a tremendous growth opportunity for businesses delivering solutions with cognitive […]
Digital readiness and Digital reinvention, the two sides of the digital dollar
Contemporary digital business: during the first two hours of Singles Day, online retailer Alibaba received turnover of 7 billion dollars. A few weeks later Sphere.com saw a 60% increase in its turnover during the St. Nicholas sales and, in the same 4th quarter, Ahold saw its online turnover increase by 28%. These are not future […]
Infrastructure is for all times
Whereas ITers frequently take the infrastructure as their point of departure for a transition to the cloud, businesses generally start with the applications. The stereotypical view is that the IT function tends to consider applications almost as an afterthought, while business users, in turn, scarcely realize that they even need an infrastructure at all. Even […]
Infrastructure? Don’t forget the software!
In the broad movement to the cloud, we ultimately see two streams. On the one hand, a shift from infrastructure to the cloud, which means that many organizations will invest less in their own hardware. On the other hand, driven in part by demand from the business, software in the cloud is playing an ever […]
Mobile Data Protection today: ease of use and security go hand in hand
Companies have embraced Bring Your Own Device (BYOD), without realizing it. Employees use their personal devices for business use and vice versa. An invitation for a drink with friends arrives amid management presentations or policy documents. The business world is gradually coming to realize that BYOD brings with it some pertinent security issues. Most multinationals […]
I believe in a 50:50 Planet
My name is Snezana Zivcevska and I have been working at IBM for already 10 years. I am a Project Manager at IBM GBS Application Innovation Consulting, and I currently work on Transition and Transformation project for Philips Lighting. Next to that I am also part of the team who works on the development of […]
Diversity of thought and diversity of people enables the creation of impactful innovations
Have you ever had that feeling of ease when you are in a crowd of people and fully fit in? They have a similar background and lifestyle as you, they speak the same language and share similar hobbies. It’s the same feeling you get when you buy a piece of clothing that is so comfortable […]
A bit of a personal story, trip to the Science Fair
When I was in high school in Spain we had an annual trip to the local science fair. One year I came across a video stand that showed a prediction of the future. There were flying cars, buildings that reached up beyond the clouds, and robots of various shapes and sizes. At the end of […]