‘Mobile Retailing’ is Changing Shopping; Here’s What You Can Do About It
Dr. Elizabeth Evans, Associate Dean, Ted Rogers School of Management, Ryerson University By Dr. Elizabeth Evans For retailers around the globe, mobility, social media and Big Data are intersecting to...
View ArticleAustralia: Transforming Businesses By Capturing Customer Insights
Like other media companies around the world, Australia’s Fairfax Media Limited is under pressure due to the fast-changing dynamics in publishing. But Fairfax isn’t taking those challenges lying down....
View ArticleOut of Africa: Kenya’s MoDe Wins IBM SmartCamp Finals in New York City
By now, most globally-aware people are familiar with Africa’s mobile money story. M-PESA, launched first in Kenya, leapfrogged the developed economies in bringing mobile money transfers to the masses....
View ArticleIs Your Store Ready for the Mobile Shopper?
Jill Puleri, Global Retail Leader, IBM By Jill Puleri The 2012 holiday shopping season could arguably be considered the greatest digital shopping period in history. According to the latest IBM...
View ArticleThe Mobile Enterprise Puts Business Leaders on the Hot Seat
Robert LeBlanc, Senior Vice President, IBM Software Group By Robert LeBlanc The era of the mobile enterprise has officially arrived. Half of American workers are now using smart devices for work as...
View ArticleHow Sterling Jewelers is Innovating a New Customer Experience
George Murray, Senior Vice President of Marketing, Sterling Jewelers Inc. By George Murray Today’s retail environment is witnessing the convergence of competition and innovation evidenced by the...
View ArticleIBM CEO Ginni Rometty to Address the Council on Foreign Relations
Ginni Rometty, IBM CEO Over the past several years, Big Data, analytics, cloud, mobile and social technologies have infused our world. These technologies provide the instrumentation, interconnection...
View ArticleIBM CEO Ginni Rometty: Gaining Competitive Advantage in the New Era of Computing
IBM CEO Ginni Rometty In these early days of the 21st century, Big Data, analytics, cloud, mobile and social technologies are transforming our world. This new era of computing provides the...
View ArticleSocial Banking Drives Brand Awareness and Business for ING DIRECT
Charaka Kithulegoda, CIO, ING DIRECT By Charaka Kithulegoda It’s estimated that there are more smartphones on the planet than humans. By 2016, more than 10 billion smartphones will be in use around the...
View ArticleMapping Out the Top 4 Strategies for the Mobile Enterprise
Latha Maripuri, Director, IBM Mobile and Security Services By Latha Maripuri Mobile technology has unquestionably changed how we interact in both our business and personal lives. In fact, mobile...
View ArticleBig Data and the Action Hero Effect
Harriet Fryman, Director of Market Strategy, Business Analytics, IBM By Harriet Fryman Big Data and analytics are to the IT industry what action hero movies are to the motion picture business. Each is...
View ArticleCloud: The Rising Power Behind Mobile, Social and Big Data
Craig Sowell, Vice President, IBM SmartCloud and Managed Services Marketing By Craig Sowell As we come to recognize the power of mobile, social and Big Data to deliver new forms of innovation and drive...
View ArticleHelping Retailers Take On the Mobile Challenge
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...
View ArticleHow to Build Innovation Ecosystems in Africa
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...
View ArticleHow Accra, Ghana, is Taking Steps to Become an African Success Story
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...
View ArticleDialing for Data: How Big Data is Transforming Telecom
Robert Fox, Global Telecom, Media and Entertainment Industry LeaderIBM Global Business Services By Robert Fox Cut throat competitiveness has been with the telecom industry since its inception nearly...
View ArticleWhen Disaster Strikes in a Socially-Connected World
Werner Kruck, Chief Operating Officer, Security First Insurance Company By Werner Kruck You may think of Twitter and Facebook as a way to catch up on the latest gossip, but social media often becomes a...
View ArticleThe Key to Marketing to Millennials: Engagement
Dr. Glenn Omura, Associate Professor, Michigan State University, Broad College of Business By Dr. Glenn Omura Earlier this year I spoke with Manoj Saxena, General Manager of Watson Solutions at IBM,...
View ArticleTeeing Up Mobile and Big Data to Help U.S. Open Golf Fans Keep Score
Patrick G. Childress, Program Manager, Real-Time Events, Global Business Services, IBM By Patrick G. Childress One of my favorite parts of summer, much to my wife’s chagrin, is watching golf on Sunday...
View ArticleHelping the C-Suite Meet the Mobile Challenge
Kevin Custis, Global Leader Mobility Services, IBM Global Business Services By Kevin Custis The rise of mobile computing and social business is transforming information technology (IT), yet neither is...
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