It’s all too easy for a techie to see dashboards and graphs as a fluffy executive toy but the fact is visualisation is the key to insight for many people. All the old clichés apply a picture speaking a 1,000 words et cetera, etc. For the numerate executive the are the control panel – the [...]
IBM could reduce its workforce by 299,000 in seven years
By Stuart Macdonald in General on 26 April
IBM has told Personnel Today that it could reduce its workforce from 399,000 today to 100,000 in 2017.2017 is the planned completion date of the completion of its its HR transformation programme.Tim Ringo, head of IBM Human Capital Management, told Personnel Today IBM would re-hire the workers as contractors for specific projects and when necessary [...]
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From the love of maths to the futility of technology… You can find out more about xkcd here see he's done some stuff for IBM's Smarter Planet – which I like but I suspect someone in IBM's marketing dept will be shot for going this far out there
Just spent a few days in fine company snowboarding in Saalbach Austria. Had an absolute ball. Sore bum from the hill and sore head from the beer but it's all good… Anyone who thinks this pic is actually me – leave my blog – we can't be friends any more. I also discovered Mozart's Balls [...]
Introducing the Google Streetview Snowmobile
By Stuart Macdonald in General on 10 February
Thanks to Lepoland for this one… tee-hee
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