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IBM Service Grants: Ensuring NGOs can afford the best management advice
“Caring for children with a severe illness or disability is a 24-hour job,” says Danielle Huse, director of charitable home Villa Rozerood. “Parents can never ‘switch off’ and brothers and sisters inevitably have to cope with being given less indulgence than most children would get, because so much attention is devoted to the sick child. […]
Building tomorrow’s cities, today
In a June 2013 Le Soir interview, Benoît Lutgen (CDh) proposed a solution to the demographic challenges facing Wallonia (an estimated 400,000 additional inhabitants in the next 10-15 years). “Let’s build a revolutionary, new city; innovative in […] mobility, energy conservation and the use of new materials.” Friedl Maertens, IBM’s Business Development Public Sector, disagrees […]
The IBM Corporate Service Corps: Helping the planet one location at a time
Over the last five years, 2,400 IBM employees have been dispatched on almost 200 voluntary aid engagements around the world. The Corporate Service Corps has provided more than US$70 million worth of skilled, pro-bono services since 2008, directly benefiting 140,000 people. Jeffrey Balrak talks about his recent experiences as a Belgian IBMer sent to an […]
The Top 5 Value Drivers for Cloud
By: Marc Steenbergen and Edwin Schouten As cloud computing continues to be adopted around the world, there is often a tendency to view it in terms of a defined, stand-alone technology, with its own taxonomy. Distinctions between Platform as a Service and Infrastructure as a Service and between public and private clouds are important but […]
The computer as an advisor, not a decision-maker – the vision of IBM Fellow John Cohn
It was over 50 years ago that Thomas Watson Jr. launched the IBM Fellows program, the highest honor that can be awarded to an IBM technical staffer. The accolades are handed out for exceptional contributions to scientific, technical or social initiatives that have helped create a smarter planet. IBM Fellows have been behind some of […]
Lucipher: First place for secure cloud storage
This article will be published in the next edition of the IBM Inspire Beyond Today’s Technology magazine (ibm.com/inspire/be) IBM Mentor Day offers an opportunity for Benelux software developers to gain invaluable advice and support from industry experts. This year, first prize at the event went to Dutch software company Lucipher with their innovative solution for […]
IBM helps to improve breast cancer information campaigns
Breast cancer is in Belgium the number one cause of death for women. One out of every nine women will be confronted with breast cancer throughout her life cycle. Despite these staggering numbers, still many women are insufficiently informed about the disease. As an extension of the Minerva Project for breast cancer information, Pink Ribbon […]
IBM Study: C-suite Leaders Look to Customers to Steer Business Strategy
Customers become the “new” business advisors to the C-suite; 90 percent of senior leaders expect extensive collaboration with customers within the next five years Armonk, N.Y. – 7 Oct 2013: Despite expressing an unprecedented commitment to direct customer influence on their business decisions and operations, one-third of CEOs worry that the rest of the C-suite […]
7th Video Extreme Blue
Last week, Extreme Blue Belgium visited the IBM Lab in La Gaude, in France. The students spent some hours there where they found out some of the last innovations of IBM. They tried some of them out. Extreme Blue students were quite excited about it. Once they finished the visit to the lab, they moved […]