— IBM Study: If You Don’t Have a Social CEO, You’re Going to be Less Competitive - Forbes (via smarterplanet)
(Source: fredericwilliquet, via smarterplanet)
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CEOs regard interpersonal skills of collaboration (75 percent), communication (67 percent), creativity (61 percent) and flexibility (61 percent) as key drivers of employee success to operate in a more complex, interconnected environment.
— IBM Study: If You Don’t Have a Social CEO, You’re Going to be Less Competitive - Forbes (via smarterplanet)
— IBM Study: If You Don’t Have a Social CEO, You’re Going to be Less Competitive - Forbes (via smarterplanet)
2012/05/28
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Check out my pal Josh Klein’s debut narrating “The Link” on the National Geographic Channel. Great stuff and essentially a reimagined take on the BBC’s 1978 series, “The Connection”.
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Digital sensors are the new big thing. As reported in the New York Times, these sensors “can measure and communicate location, movement, vibration, temperature, humidity, even chemical changes in the air.” There are “countless numbers” of them around the world, in “industrial equipment, automobiles, electrical meters and shipping crates.” Their increasing use means a torrent of information, and a growing need to interpret it on the fly. A recent report from the World Economic Forum describes data as a new economic asset.
— ‘Internet of Things’ will tap anything, everything | Vancouver Courier (via smarterplanet)
— ‘Internet of Things’ will tap anything, everything | Vancouver Courier (via smarterplanet)
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How Citizen Mapmakers are Changing the Stories of our Cities
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