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 […]

Brazil 2004 – IT Midia Conference

The flight from Toronto to Fort Lauderdale, Florida was on Air Transat, a first for me. It was a no-frills airline but the flight was mostly painless and efficient. Then a ride down I-95 to Miami to join Varig Brasil for the 8 hour flight to Sao Paolo, the largest city in Brazil. It seems […]