Weekly Round Up

3 July 2009 Alternative Energy

For Modest Earners, Relief Repaying Student Loans – Repaying a student loan could soon be a little less painful. Starting this week, anyone with a federal student loan can apply for a program, run by the Department of Education, that caps monthly payments based on income, and forgives remaining balances after 25 years. Those choosing […]

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Long-Distance Drops As Wireless Gains

1 July 2009 Interesting

NPR has an interesting article on the switch from land-line telephone companies to wireless. This reminds me of the AP piece that talked about how cell-only households now outnumber traditional phone households.That statistic points to problem in our current method of landline national polling for elections, which was brought to everyone’s attention in 2008. As […]

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The Big Shift: Measuring the Forces of Change

30 June 2009 Business Metrics

Really interesting article from Deloitte’s Lang Davison about the “problem” with traditional business metrics. Relates back to the Shift Index I spoke about earlier.

During a steep recession, managers obsess over short-term performance goals such as cost cutting, sales, and market share growth. Meanwhile, economists chart data like GDP growth, unemployment levels, and balance-of-trade shifts to […]

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Restaurants finding Twitter a cheap, effective marketing tool

29 June 2009 Interesting

I was having a discussion the other day with one of my employees about the benefit of twitter and how it can be utilized in a business setting as a value-adding marketing tool. He was not so convinced. He could only see twitter as a way to tell people what you were doing at any […]

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SaaS gives SMEs the power to ride out recession

29 June 2009 Enterprise Systems

Software as a service (SaaS) could be the panacea for smaller business, according to research published today.
Investing more in software as a service (SaaS) and enterprise resource planning (ERP) could help smaller businesses lower their operating costs and help them grow in spite of the recession.
So claims a report released today by Ardent Solutions, […]

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More from the IBM Archives: 1962 Marketing representative

29 June 2009 IBM

Ok, I don’t want to go overboard with the imagery from the IBM archives, but there is something very iconic with this photograph. The large steamer bag (I think it has a typewriter in it?), the summer weight suit, the standard IBM white-shirt with the “smart tie,” all add to the overall iconic feeling of […]

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More retro IBM images

28 June 2009 IBM

Los Angeles regional headquarters of IBM Data Processing Division
In July 1958, two years after the division was established, DPD opened this Western Regional Headquarters facility in Los Angeles, Calif., to serve 12 states, Hawaii and Alaska.
[via IBM Archives: Los Angeles regional headquarters]

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“Think”

28 June 2009 IBM

Found this great picture while browsing through the Life archives over at Google Images. It’s such an interesting photograph. Were they posing? The suits are wonderfully 1950s: a large lapel, white shirt and a “smart tie.”
The caption reads: Italian-American working as a clerk for International Business Machines Corporation with its motto on desk “THINK.”
I’m afraid I […]

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IBM and the Web 2.0 World

24 June 2009 Censorship

Serendipitously, I just uncovered a post relating to IBM and social media use guidelines, which I wrote about yesterday with regard to the Associated Press’ new policy. IBM’s document is a “public submission to the Department of Homeland Security as part of their Privacy Workshops they hosted in Washington D.C. earlier this week.”

photo credit: Tech […]

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IBM’s Green Sigma Adds Coalition of Heavyweights

24 June 2009 Alternative Energy

photo credit: photomequickbooth
IBM has brought Cisco Systems and a host of the world’s biggest energy services companies into partnership with its flagship energy efficiency and carbon reduction consulting service, Greentech Media reports.
Last year, IBM launched a consulting practice, called “Green Sigma,” based on taking sensor data and analysis software and applying them toward reducing an […]

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