Airline Woes – 3

We all have experienced "airline woes", and like my fellow travelers, I continue to look forward to the day when I can write a story about how great airline web sites are. Hopefully, the story will also describe how well the airlines have integrated all of their information systems and processes so they present themselves […]

IBM Happenings: October 2004

There was a lot going on at IBM in October. Here are the announcements from IBM – the first three I find particularly interesting. The complete index of IBM Happenings by year and month is here. List of Announcements for October 2004 Clinic adopts IBM genomics solution IBM and The Cleveland Clinic will develop a […]

Four Percent: Feedback from readers

There was quite a bit of feedback about the Four Percent story. Bill Sell, Managing Partner at Advisor Communications in Framingham, Massachusetts said that he had been looking for a 27” television with a specific housing size to fit in a wall unit. For over a month he had been visiting "all sorts of stores" […]

Waking Up IBM

Waking Up IBM: How a Gang of Unlikely Rebels Transformed Big Blue was written by Gary Hamel and published in the Harvard Business Review (July-August 2000: Reprint No. R00406). I had met gary at a “Revolutionaries” conference back during the height of the “boom” where we talked about change agents in big companies. Later Gary […]

The Semantic Web

The IT Conference in Salvador, Bahia, Brazil which I attended on October 20, 2004 was produced by IT Midia. One of their publications is INFORMATIONWEEK Brasil. Rachel Rubin is a reporter for the magazine and she interviewed me (by email) for a special issue which was distributed to the 300 attendees of the conference. The […]