In business today, we see forces at work that present opportunities we could once only imagine-and challenges that could easily destroy any isolated organisation. That's why an enterprise today needs a partner with a clear view of the territory ahead. A partner who can help find ways to differentiate a company for competitive advantage. A partner who understands and knows how to create-and sustain-innovation that matters. To learn more about IBM's point of view, read, listen and inform yourself with these "Ideas from IBM."
Current issues
Information overload
On average, information workers check e-mail 50 times, get 77 instant messages and visit 40 Web sites every day. How does anyone get any work done? IBM has some ideas.
Previous issues
IBM helps create accessible Web sites
An estimated one in four Australians will be over 65 by 2056. IBM has helped leading retailers make their Web sites more accessible to the elderly.
Smarter Planet
Our smaller, flatter, smarter planet
The convergence of technologies: digital intelligence, cloud computing, mobile devices offers the opportunity to add a layer of intelligence to our most mundane processes to make them smarter, more effective, greener.
A closer look at RFID
Radio frequency identification technology has come a long way. And businesses can go even further by going beyond the beep and leveraging powerful insight into their enterprises.
Water for tomorrow
IBM has joined the effort to protect the world's river basins, providing high performance super-computing for three-dimensional visualisation of these crucial natural resources. Here's how it works.
A talking revolution
Bharti Airtel was the little guy of India's wireless world. But a partnership with IBM research and software labs transformed them into the vanguard of a talking revolution. Here's how it happened.
Trends in Internet security
IBM security experts track the trends in how hackers attempt to gain control of your computer and even your personal and financial information.
2008 Global CEO Study: The Enterprise of the Future
The qualities of a typical teen - imaginative, disruptive, hungry for change - are the very same traits companies will need in the future.
Who's winning the talent search?
Talent they don't have. Talent they have but can't mobilise. Talent they need to develop for the long term. These are just some of the challenges companies face as they work to develop a highly adaptable workforce for today's fast-moving, ever-changing marketplace.
Today, advancing a company's goals depends on CIO leadership
More and more, whether a business can advance its goals depends on technology, skills and....its CIO. Here are five top challenges and opportunities CIOs are focused on this year.
Virtual worlds, real leaders
A new study seeks to better understand how successful leaders behave in online games and learn what aspects of game environments leaders leverage to be more effective.
The future of learning
In the future, learning will take place anywhere, anytime, all life long. What will this mean for our success? For our next generation?
How It Works: The Genographic Project
The National Geographic Society and IBM have teamed up to track your ancestors' journeys. Here's how it works.
Blogs go to work
Blogs are good for business! Many IBMers use their Internet blogs to open up their work and expertise to a wider audience, and to gain insight from customers, partners and even competitors.
Five innovations that will change our lives
Here are the five innovations that we think will change how people around the world work, play and live over the next five years.
Reinventing healthcare
A review of what's ailing healthcare today, the complications that have set in, and some innovative approaches to healing the system.
Why midsize matters
In our accelerated, flatter world, success belongs to companies who are flexible, fast and innovative...and size doesn't matter. See what midsize companies are doing to thrive in this new environment.
Turning green with ingenuity
Environmental protection and business interests may often be portrayed as being at odds in the popular media, yet they're increasingly not only compatible, but simultaneously attainable.
Stockholm gets out of a jam
Traffic made life difficult in Stockholm. But with IBM, the city found a way to reduce congestion, boost public transport usage and improve the overall quality of life for its citizens. Here's how it works.
Driving innovation
Green cars. Road charging. Smart-card transit systems. These are just some of the innovations envisioned for improving our world of transportation.
How It Works: World Community Grid
Volunteer your computer's unused power to World Community Grid and it can spend available CPUS helping advance research for a cure for AIDS, or improved treatment for cancer, or any number of other efforts that can i can improve the way we live. Get in the Grid.....it gives new meaning to the importance of downtime.
