The document discusses IBM's Smarter Cities solutions portfolio. It provides an overview of IBM's solutions for making cities smarter by leveraging information to improve decision making, coordinating resources to operate effectively, and anticipating problems proactively. The solutions focus on industries like transportation, energy, healthcare, water, government, and education. It also highlights some key Smarter Cities projects from 2011 and discusses where IBM is heading with its Smarter Cities engagements and growth markets.
The document provides an overview of Element Blue and its Intelligent Operations Center (IOC) solutions. It discusses:
1) Element Blue's experience in delivering IOC solutions and other IBM products.
2) How the IOC platform can help governments and organizations improve operations by providing insights across departments, anticipating problems, and coordinating responses to issues.
3) The types of IOC solutions and services Element Blue provides, including hosting, development, integration, education/mentoring, and content/mobile apps.
Sask 3.0 Summit -Seeing the Meaning, IBM R. LoeppSaskSummit
Citizens are placing increasing demands on governments to innovate and provide services more efficiently. The document outlines lessons learned from over 2,000 smart government projects that show what is possible through capturing data, coordinating resources, and anticipating problems. Examples include using data analytics to reduce crime rates and optimize maintenance schedules. The key is moving beyond individual departments to a holistic smart government approach that engages citizens.
The IBM Intelligent Operations Center for Smarter Cities enables city leaders to integrate services across departments to minimize risks and anticipate problems. It leverages information from across agencies to make better decisions and coordinates resources to respond rapidly to issues. The Center provides functions like event correlation, integrated system monitoring, and roles/permissions management. It also offers over 25 use cases inspired by global best practices in areas like public safety, transportation, water management, and buildings.
Internet das Coisas e as Cidades InteligentesCezar Taurion
This document discusses IBM's innovations in smart cities initiatives and the Internet of Things. It notes that IBM was awarded nearly 6,000 patents in 2010, more than any other company. It also discusses challenges facing cities like population growth, resource scarcity, and the growth of connected devices. IBM's smart cities solutions can help with issues like water management, energy use, transportation, and environmental monitoring through the use of sensors, data analysis, and optimization of systems.
This document discusses how cities can become smarter through the use of data and analytics. It provides examples of how predictive analytics have helped reduce crime rates and optimize maintenance schedules. It also discusses the value of integrating data across organizations to coordinate emergency response efforts and engage citizens on important issues like water conservation. Overall, the document advocates for cities to capture more data, anticipate problems, and coordinate resources to increase the value provided to residents.
Dr Colin G. Harrison, IBM Smarter Cities -Seismics and the City 22 March 2012SmartNet
This document discusses creating smarter cities and discusses Dubuque, Iowa as an example. It provides context on urbanization trends and the benefits of smarter cities. It then summarizes Dubuque's efforts to become smarter through optimal bus routing, a water portal with social features, building constituencies to establish a sustainability vision, and embracing open data. The closing thoughts emphasize that creating a smarter city is about rebuilding community.
Urban Systems Collaborative Seminar | Jurij Paraszczak, An it view of smarter...urbansystemssymposium
The document discusses IBM's approach to smarter cities, which involves analyzing a city as a system of interconnected systems and optimizing operations. Key points include:
1) IBM views a city as a complex system of systems like transportation, energy, education, etc. and aims to help cities manage these systems better through data and analytics.
2) Over 100 IBM researchers are working with customers around the world on smarter city projects involving common platforms and approaches.
3) IBM has identified three types of cities - mature large, mature medium, and cities in transition - which have different budget focuses and challenges.
4) The Smarter Cities Challenge aims to award $50 million in technology and services to 100 cities
Intelligent Operations Center for Mocial Media AnalyticsBrian O'Donovan
This document describes IBM's Intelligent Operations Center, which provides social media analytics features to help cities better manage operations. It analyzes social media sentiment about key topics to give operational users insight into stakeholder perceptions. The dashboard summarizes sentiments expressed online about topics of interest. It can detect trends that operations may be unaware of and point to issues impacting how the city is managed. The solution only analyzes public social media content relevant to the city to avoid privacy concerns.
The document provides an overview of Element Blue and its Intelligent Operations Center (IOC) solutions. It discusses:
1) Element Blue's experience in delivering IOC solutions and other IBM products.
2) How the IOC platform can help governments and organizations improve operations by providing insights across departments, anticipating problems, and coordinating responses to issues.
3) The types of IOC solutions and services Element Blue provides, including hosting, development, integration, education/mentoring, and content/mobile apps.
Sask 3.0 Summit -Seeing the Meaning, IBM R. LoeppSaskSummit
Citizens are placing increasing demands on governments to innovate and provide services more efficiently. The document outlines lessons learned from over 2,000 smart government projects that show what is possible through capturing data, coordinating resources, and anticipating problems. Examples include using data analytics to reduce crime rates and optimize maintenance schedules. The key is moving beyond individual departments to a holistic smart government approach that engages citizens.
The IBM Intelligent Operations Center for Smarter Cities enables city leaders to integrate services across departments to minimize risks and anticipate problems. It leverages information from across agencies to make better decisions and coordinates resources to respond rapidly to issues. The Center provides functions like event correlation, integrated system monitoring, and roles/permissions management. It also offers over 25 use cases inspired by global best practices in areas like public safety, transportation, water management, and buildings.
Internet das Coisas e as Cidades InteligentesCezar Taurion
This document discusses IBM's innovations in smart cities initiatives and the Internet of Things. It notes that IBM was awarded nearly 6,000 patents in 2010, more than any other company. It also discusses challenges facing cities like population growth, resource scarcity, and the growth of connected devices. IBM's smart cities solutions can help with issues like water management, energy use, transportation, and environmental monitoring through the use of sensors, data analysis, and optimization of systems.
This document discusses how cities can become smarter through the use of data and analytics. It provides examples of how predictive analytics have helped reduce crime rates and optimize maintenance schedules. It also discusses the value of integrating data across organizations to coordinate emergency response efforts and engage citizens on important issues like water conservation. Overall, the document advocates for cities to capture more data, anticipate problems, and coordinate resources to increase the value provided to residents.
Dr Colin G. Harrison, IBM Smarter Cities -Seismics and the City 22 March 2012SmartNet
This document discusses creating smarter cities and discusses Dubuque, Iowa as an example. It provides context on urbanization trends and the benefits of smarter cities. It then summarizes Dubuque's efforts to become smarter through optimal bus routing, a water portal with social features, building constituencies to establish a sustainability vision, and embracing open data. The closing thoughts emphasize that creating a smarter city is about rebuilding community.
Urban Systems Collaborative Seminar | Jurij Paraszczak, An it view of smarter...urbansystemssymposium
The document discusses IBM's approach to smarter cities, which involves analyzing a city as a system of interconnected systems and optimizing operations. Key points include:
1) IBM views a city as a complex system of systems like transportation, energy, education, etc. and aims to help cities manage these systems better through data and analytics.
2) Over 100 IBM researchers are working with customers around the world on smarter city projects involving common platforms and approaches.
3) IBM has identified three types of cities - mature large, mature medium, and cities in transition - which have different budget focuses and challenges.
4) The Smarter Cities Challenge aims to award $50 million in technology and services to 100 cities
Intelligent Operations Center for Mocial Media AnalyticsBrian O'Donovan
This document describes IBM's Intelligent Operations Center, which provides social media analytics features to help cities better manage operations. It analyzes social media sentiment about key topics to give operational users insight into stakeholder perceptions. The dashboard summarizes sentiments expressed online about topics of interest. It can detect trends that operations may be unaware of and point to issues impacting how the city is managed. The solution only analyzes public social media content relevant to the city to avoid privacy concerns.
J.D. Stanley - Connected Urban Development PortfolioShane Mitchell
This document discusses accomplishments and opportunities in connected and sustainable development (CUD). It highlights [1] broader commitments to issues like broadband and transparency, [2] deeper public-private partnerships emerging, and [3] more civic engagements focused on experiences and services rather than just features. It presents a portfolio of CUD opportunities across mobility, buildings, work, energy, engagement, and information and communications technology. It proposes harnessing collective digital interactions through a "digital swarming" framework to advance sustainability goals.
Better World Light Reading Conference Nyc V3Salem Kimble
This document discusses how information and communication technologies (ICT) can help drive the transition to a low-carbon economy. It notes that while ICT contributes to global warming, it also has great potential to help reduce emissions from other sectors through solutions that enable remote work, virtual meetings, and telecommuting. Examples are presented showing how companies have significantly reduced their carbon footprints and costs by allowing more flexible and remote work arrangements for employees. A framework called "BetterWork" is introduced that aims to quantify the financial and environmental impacts of implementing flexible work programs across different enterprise scenarios. The conclusion is that the ICT sector is well-positioned to create meaningful carbon mitigation through industry cooperation and by marketing solutions that promote substitution away from
Smarter buildings use integrated physical and digital infrastructure to optimize occupancy services in a cost-effective and sustainable manner. Smarter buildings reduce energy and operating costs through active and passive efficiency techniques. They interact with occupants and the external environment in real-time. Case studies show IBM implementations of smarter building technologies achieved 5% or more in energy cost reductions. IBM is well-positioned to help organizations with smarter buildings due to its expertise, partnerships, and experience transforming its own global facilities.
Maximise productivity through dynamic, virtual technology (IBM Websphere)IBM Danmark
Lær hvordan IBM WebSphere Software kan hjælpe din virksomhed med at blive klar til at håndtere fremtidige ændringer og med sin dynamiske og virtuelle teknologi kan understøtte procesoptimering og gøre organisationen mere agil.
Læs mere her: bit.ly/softwaredagwebsphere1
This document discusses the concept of intelligent buildings, its principles and the benefits that it can bring to
organisations who adopt this philosophy within their real estate. Whilst most of its aspects can be replicated in different building types and industries, care should be taken of the context and purpose of the building. After all, although the purpose of buildings is the same regardless of industry – to enhance occupiers output – the actual
output differs per industry and, therefore, an intelligent building will mean something differently for an
educational establishment compared to an office block.
Within this document I focus on office buildings because in many respects they are one of the most complex and
fast changing environments that exist currently, but also because intelligent buildings is becoming a prime
discussion point either because of legislation (e.g. energy savings through the Carbon Reduction Commitment and Part L) or through increasing awareness of the impact that built assets have on the bottomline.
Care should be taken that the term “intelligence” should not only apply to the intelligence of the buildings
themselves through systems and ICT, but also in how far they are intelligently designed, built, run and
maintained.
Track Keynote for the Enterprise Modernization Track at the IBM Rational Software Conference 2009
Everyone is well aware that we are in tough economic times right now. However, these difficult times also present opportunities for companies that can quickly adapt to these changing conditions. When you look at what inhibits companies from being as agile as they would like, IT is often cited as a problem area. While there can be many root causes, among the most important are (1) a reliance on fragile legacy applications about which companies have a limited understanding, (2) development staff that are not sufficiently productive, and (3) disconnected team infrastructures that inhibit collaboration and traceability. These problems limit your organization's flexibility. They are costing you money. And they tie up resources that could otherwise focus on new business to bring in more revenue. This track will showcase IBM Rational's Enterprise Modernization solutions that enable organizations to: reduce project risk by managing and extracting value from their application portfolio, exploit new technologies to deliver more flexible business solutions, empower new and existing IT staff to build multi-platform applications, increase productivity with a modern software delivery platform, and improve development efficiency and collaboration by unifying multiple teams.
The document discusses how governments can build smarter cities and become more efficient. It suggests that smarter governments focus on citizen-centered experiences, government accountability, and effectively managing resources. The document also outlines how IBM's solutions align with key government priorities like social services, customs/border management, and defense. IBM can help with multi-channel delivery, automated data analysis, and strengthening areas like identity management, risk assessment, and internet security.
Rising to the New Challenges of Transactional Services in the Public SectorCapgemini
Companies and government agencies alike are moving their activities online.
The rising curve of online service delivery adoption has raised expectations of service levels. Yet many transactions in the public sector are often still provided by systems that were not intended, designed and built to support the exponential user and data growth.
Subsequently, the rise of online service delivery not only requires new investment but also adds new risks in making these systems secure for an online world with its increasing levels of cyber crime. Both the private and the public sectors are under pressure to reduce the costs associated with delivery of transactional services.
But since our last paper on the topic was published, three significant trends have emerged:
- The increased urgency to reduce fraud and non-compliance
- The changing nature of Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) and Shared Services strategies moving away from pure cost reduction to transformational outsourcing
- The rapid rise of Cloud technology, with dramatic changes to delivery models
Read our paper to learn more about how government can learn from the private sector in order to tackle these issues.
The document discusses how clouds, mobility, and big data together create a revolution in business capabilities when used together. It provides a use case example of how an airport authority could use these technologies together in an "outside-in" model, rather than traditional "inside-out" IT systems, to allow real-time collaboration between different groups' employees to solve operational issues as they arise. This would allow improved efficiency and customer satisfaction over just using individual groups' internal IT systems.
The document discusses how smarter systems are needed for a smarter planet to manage vast amounts of data, gain insights from information, and manage risks while increasing business agility and performance. It provides examples of smarter cities, medicine, energy grids, and traffic systems and argues that intentionally designed, integrated systems are needed that optimize performance and resources. The document then describes IBM's portfolio of smarter systems that address data management, business insights, processes, and risks to help organizations operate more efficiently.
Drivers like population growth, urbanization, and technology are changing cities and challenging transportation systems. Cities are aging with leaky water infrastructure losing up to 20% of supply, and energy blackouts affecting millions. Increased costs inhibit infrastructure upgrades. The document argues that instrumenting, interconnecting, and analyzing city systems through smart technologies can help optimize resources and infrastructure to build more sustainable cities. It provides examples of smart water management reducing leaks and energy usage, and an Olympic Peninsula project lowering customer bills and peak loads through renewable energy optimization.
To deliver on this potential, smarter media and entertainment companies are transforming business models, operations and customer experiences. (1) Innovate business models and seize digital market opportunities, (2) Differentiate the consumer experience, (3) Improve operational efficiencies.
Why is Mobility More than Making Enterprise Applications Available?Capgemini
This document discusses the differences between traditional enterprise mobility and newer mobility models enabled by personal devices, apps, and cloud services. In enterprise mobility, client-server applications are delivered to mobile devices, requiring synchronization of stateful data when connections are available. However, newer mobility refers to personal devices accessing modular apps and services from the cloud through a web/internet model using representational state and non-stateful data, avoiding issues of enterprise mobility around stateful data synchronization. The document provides examples of this including the Apple App Store, iCloud, and the iFly app.
Fujitsu ASEAN roadshow - How to leverage information, innovation and insightFujitsu Global
Craig Baty discusses how organizations can leverage three "I"s - information, innovation, and integration - to accelerate into the future. He outlines how exponential data growth and emerging technologies like mobility, cloud computing, social media, and big data are disrupting businesses. Baty argues that organizations must shift their focus from technology ("T") to information ("I") and become business enablers that utilize data to generate value. Fujitsu's vision is to build a human-centric intelligent society where computing seamlessly enhances people's lives through real-time insight and socially interactive technologies.
The document discusses the emerging opportunities in corporate governance and compliance management in the changing global scenario. It notes that globalization, common law, e-governance, and single window interfaces are driving increased opportunities, and that corporate governance and compliance management will be key to success. Corporate governance refers to laws, rules, and voluntary practices that enable companies to maximize long-term shareholder value and stakeholder satisfaction. Compliance professionals who have knowledge of both law and management will be responsible for guiding companies through the emerging opportunities and demands in this new environment.
A 21st Century Roadmap: The Future of Infrastructuretipfutures2011
The document discusses infrastructure challenges and opportunities in the 21st century across multiple domains including energy, transportation, manufacturing, and communication. It outlines critical assumptions and limitations facing current systems and envisions both incremental and transformational innovation through new eras enabled by emerging technologies like autonomous vehicles, renewable energy, advanced materials, cloud computing, and the internet of things. The future described emphasizes distributed, smart and integrated infrastructure systems relying more on software, data and services than traditional physical assets.
This technical report discusses how climate change threatens ICT infrastructure. It notes that ICT infrastructure has become more interconnected and sensitive over time. Climate change can directly damage wired connections through events like floods and cyclones. It can also indirectly impact wireless signals by increasing rain density or changing atmospheric conditions. The report argues that ICT infrastructure must be made more resilient to these climate threats in order to ensure continuous coverage, especially as many businesses and individuals now rely on constant ICT access. Adaptations are needed like improving mobile phone coverage and data services.
CPS Energy, a municipal utility serving San Antonio, hired consulting firms Karta and Motorola to assess its aging wireless and IT systems and develop a mobility strategy. Karta identified CPS's top 10 mobility goals through interviews. Motorola performed a maturity assessment and gap analysis to evaluate CPS's current capabilities and architectural recommendations. This revealed that CPS needed to upgrade its wireless network and create an overall mobility strategy to provide employees reliable access to information from any location. CPS is deploying a new Harmony wireless system and working to converge its communications networks and systems to achieve its long-term vision of enabling mobile access to any needed information.
Whitepaper published late 2010, describing why cloud is fundamentally different, not just from a tech perspective, but also from an economic perspective. As a result, will drive major disruption of the IT sector over the next 10 years
Smarter Buildings: Bæredygtige bygninger med lavt energiforbrug, Jens Cajus, IBMIBM Danmark
Smarter buildings use integrated physical and digital systems to optimize building performance through reliable and sustainable operations. IBM offers solutions to help manage smarter buildings through environmental monitoring, facilities management, maintenance, and real estate optimization. Case studies show IBM smarter buildings solutions can reduce costs through lower energy usage and more efficient maintenance while improving sustainability goals.
Jens Arnholtz (University of Copenhagen) – Dealing with low wage migration in...Arena Idé
This document summarizes data on low-wage labor migration to Denmark from new EU member states between 2003-2014. It shows that the number of migrants grew rapidly after 2003, peaking at over 80,000 in 2007 before declining. It also outlines different regulatory changes by Denmark at the national, collective bargaining, and municipal levels over this period to manage posted workers and labor migration. Specific efforts by Danish construction unions to enforce collective agreements with foreign posting companies through worksite visits and conflict resolution processes are also summarized.
J.D. Stanley - Connected Urban Development PortfolioShane Mitchell
This document discusses accomplishments and opportunities in connected and sustainable development (CUD). It highlights [1] broader commitments to issues like broadband and transparency, [2] deeper public-private partnerships emerging, and [3] more civic engagements focused on experiences and services rather than just features. It presents a portfolio of CUD opportunities across mobility, buildings, work, energy, engagement, and information and communications technology. It proposes harnessing collective digital interactions through a "digital swarming" framework to advance sustainability goals.
Better World Light Reading Conference Nyc V3Salem Kimble
This document discusses how information and communication technologies (ICT) can help drive the transition to a low-carbon economy. It notes that while ICT contributes to global warming, it also has great potential to help reduce emissions from other sectors through solutions that enable remote work, virtual meetings, and telecommuting. Examples are presented showing how companies have significantly reduced their carbon footprints and costs by allowing more flexible and remote work arrangements for employees. A framework called "BetterWork" is introduced that aims to quantify the financial and environmental impacts of implementing flexible work programs across different enterprise scenarios. The conclusion is that the ICT sector is well-positioned to create meaningful carbon mitigation through industry cooperation and by marketing solutions that promote substitution away from
Smarter buildings use integrated physical and digital infrastructure to optimize occupancy services in a cost-effective and sustainable manner. Smarter buildings reduce energy and operating costs through active and passive efficiency techniques. They interact with occupants and the external environment in real-time. Case studies show IBM implementations of smarter building technologies achieved 5% or more in energy cost reductions. IBM is well-positioned to help organizations with smarter buildings due to its expertise, partnerships, and experience transforming its own global facilities.
Maximise productivity through dynamic, virtual technology (IBM Websphere)IBM Danmark
Lær hvordan IBM WebSphere Software kan hjælpe din virksomhed med at blive klar til at håndtere fremtidige ændringer og med sin dynamiske og virtuelle teknologi kan understøtte procesoptimering og gøre organisationen mere agil.
Læs mere her: bit.ly/softwaredagwebsphere1
This document discusses the concept of intelligent buildings, its principles and the benefits that it can bring to
organisations who adopt this philosophy within their real estate. Whilst most of its aspects can be replicated in different building types and industries, care should be taken of the context and purpose of the building. After all, although the purpose of buildings is the same regardless of industry – to enhance occupiers output – the actual
output differs per industry and, therefore, an intelligent building will mean something differently for an
educational establishment compared to an office block.
Within this document I focus on office buildings because in many respects they are one of the most complex and
fast changing environments that exist currently, but also because intelligent buildings is becoming a prime
discussion point either because of legislation (e.g. energy savings through the Carbon Reduction Commitment and Part L) or through increasing awareness of the impact that built assets have on the bottomline.
Care should be taken that the term “intelligence” should not only apply to the intelligence of the buildings
themselves through systems and ICT, but also in how far they are intelligently designed, built, run and
maintained.
Track Keynote for the Enterprise Modernization Track at the IBM Rational Software Conference 2009
Everyone is well aware that we are in tough economic times right now. However, these difficult times also present opportunities for companies that can quickly adapt to these changing conditions. When you look at what inhibits companies from being as agile as they would like, IT is often cited as a problem area. While there can be many root causes, among the most important are (1) a reliance on fragile legacy applications about which companies have a limited understanding, (2) development staff that are not sufficiently productive, and (3) disconnected team infrastructures that inhibit collaboration and traceability. These problems limit your organization's flexibility. They are costing you money. And they tie up resources that could otherwise focus on new business to bring in more revenue. This track will showcase IBM Rational's Enterprise Modernization solutions that enable organizations to: reduce project risk by managing and extracting value from their application portfolio, exploit new technologies to deliver more flexible business solutions, empower new and existing IT staff to build multi-platform applications, increase productivity with a modern software delivery platform, and improve development efficiency and collaboration by unifying multiple teams.
The document discusses how governments can build smarter cities and become more efficient. It suggests that smarter governments focus on citizen-centered experiences, government accountability, and effectively managing resources. The document also outlines how IBM's solutions align with key government priorities like social services, customs/border management, and defense. IBM can help with multi-channel delivery, automated data analysis, and strengthening areas like identity management, risk assessment, and internet security.
Rising to the New Challenges of Transactional Services in the Public SectorCapgemini
Companies and government agencies alike are moving their activities online.
The rising curve of online service delivery adoption has raised expectations of service levels. Yet many transactions in the public sector are often still provided by systems that were not intended, designed and built to support the exponential user and data growth.
Subsequently, the rise of online service delivery not only requires new investment but also adds new risks in making these systems secure for an online world with its increasing levels of cyber crime. Both the private and the public sectors are under pressure to reduce the costs associated with delivery of transactional services.
But since our last paper on the topic was published, three significant trends have emerged:
- The increased urgency to reduce fraud and non-compliance
- The changing nature of Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) and Shared Services strategies moving away from pure cost reduction to transformational outsourcing
- The rapid rise of Cloud technology, with dramatic changes to delivery models
Read our paper to learn more about how government can learn from the private sector in order to tackle these issues.
The document discusses how clouds, mobility, and big data together create a revolution in business capabilities when used together. It provides a use case example of how an airport authority could use these technologies together in an "outside-in" model, rather than traditional "inside-out" IT systems, to allow real-time collaboration between different groups' employees to solve operational issues as they arise. This would allow improved efficiency and customer satisfaction over just using individual groups' internal IT systems.
The document discusses how smarter systems are needed for a smarter planet to manage vast amounts of data, gain insights from information, and manage risks while increasing business agility and performance. It provides examples of smarter cities, medicine, energy grids, and traffic systems and argues that intentionally designed, integrated systems are needed that optimize performance and resources. The document then describes IBM's portfolio of smarter systems that address data management, business insights, processes, and risks to help organizations operate more efficiently.
Drivers like population growth, urbanization, and technology are changing cities and challenging transportation systems. Cities are aging with leaky water infrastructure losing up to 20% of supply, and energy blackouts affecting millions. Increased costs inhibit infrastructure upgrades. The document argues that instrumenting, interconnecting, and analyzing city systems through smart technologies can help optimize resources and infrastructure to build more sustainable cities. It provides examples of smart water management reducing leaks and energy usage, and an Olympic Peninsula project lowering customer bills and peak loads through renewable energy optimization.
To deliver on this potential, smarter media and entertainment companies are transforming business models, operations and customer experiences. (1) Innovate business models and seize digital market opportunities, (2) Differentiate the consumer experience, (3) Improve operational efficiencies.
Why is Mobility More than Making Enterprise Applications Available?Capgemini
This document discusses the differences between traditional enterprise mobility and newer mobility models enabled by personal devices, apps, and cloud services. In enterprise mobility, client-server applications are delivered to mobile devices, requiring synchronization of stateful data when connections are available. However, newer mobility refers to personal devices accessing modular apps and services from the cloud through a web/internet model using representational state and non-stateful data, avoiding issues of enterprise mobility around stateful data synchronization. The document provides examples of this including the Apple App Store, iCloud, and the iFly app.
Fujitsu ASEAN roadshow - How to leverage information, innovation and insightFujitsu Global
Craig Baty discusses how organizations can leverage three "I"s - information, innovation, and integration - to accelerate into the future. He outlines how exponential data growth and emerging technologies like mobility, cloud computing, social media, and big data are disrupting businesses. Baty argues that organizations must shift their focus from technology ("T") to information ("I") and become business enablers that utilize data to generate value. Fujitsu's vision is to build a human-centric intelligent society where computing seamlessly enhances people's lives through real-time insight and socially interactive technologies.
The document discusses the emerging opportunities in corporate governance and compliance management in the changing global scenario. It notes that globalization, common law, e-governance, and single window interfaces are driving increased opportunities, and that corporate governance and compliance management will be key to success. Corporate governance refers to laws, rules, and voluntary practices that enable companies to maximize long-term shareholder value and stakeholder satisfaction. Compliance professionals who have knowledge of both law and management will be responsible for guiding companies through the emerging opportunities and demands in this new environment.
A 21st Century Roadmap: The Future of Infrastructuretipfutures2011
The document discusses infrastructure challenges and opportunities in the 21st century across multiple domains including energy, transportation, manufacturing, and communication. It outlines critical assumptions and limitations facing current systems and envisions both incremental and transformational innovation through new eras enabled by emerging technologies like autonomous vehicles, renewable energy, advanced materials, cloud computing, and the internet of things. The future described emphasizes distributed, smart and integrated infrastructure systems relying more on software, data and services than traditional physical assets.
This technical report discusses how climate change threatens ICT infrastructure. It notes that ICT infrastructure has become more interconnected and sensitive over time. Climate change can directly damage wired connections through events like floods and cyclones. It can also indirectly impact wireless signals by increasing rain density or changing atmospheric conditions. The report argues that ICT infrastructure must be made more resilient to these climate threats in order to ensure continuous coverage, especially as many businesses and individuals now rely on constant ICT access. Adaptations are needed like improving mobile phone coverage and data services.
CPS Energy, a municipal utility serving San Antonio, hired consulting firms Karta and Motorola to assess its aging wireless and IT systems and develop a mobility strategy. Karta identified CPS's top 10 mobility goals through interviews. Motorola performed a maturity assessment and gap analysis to evaluate CPS's current capabilities and architectural recommendations. This revealed that CPS needed to upgrade its wireless network and create an overall mobility strategy to provide employees reliable access to information from any location. CPS is deploying a new Harmony wireless system and working to converge its communications networks and systems to achieve its long-term vision of enabling mobile access to any needed information.
Whitepaper published late 2010, describing why cloud is fundamentally different, not just from a tech perspective, but also from an economic perspective. As a result, will drive major disruption of the IT sector over the next 10 years
Smarter Buildings: Bæredygtige bygninger med lavt energiforbrug, Jens Cajus, IBMIBM Danmark
Smarter buildings use integrated physical and digital systems to optimize building performance through reliable and sustainable operations. IBM offers solutions to help manage smarter buildings through environmental monitoring, facilities management, maintenance, and real estate optimization. Case studies show IBM smarter buildings solutions can reduce costs through lower energy usage and more efficient maintenance while improving sustainability goals.
Jens Arnholtz (University of Copenhagen) – Dealing with low wage migration in...Arena Idé
This document summarizes data on low-wage labor migration to Denmark from new EU member states between 2003-2014. It shows that the number of migrants grew rapidly after 2003, peaking at over 80,000 in 2007 before declining. It also outlines different regulatory changes by Denmark at the national, collective bargaining, and municipal levels over this period to manage posted workers and labor migration. Specific efforts by Danish construction unions to enforce collective agreements with foreign posting companies through worksite visits and conflict resolution processes are also summarized.
Microsoft compliance framework_for_online_services~Eric Principe
The document introduces Microsoft's Compliance Framework used to manage its online services cloud infrastructure. It provides examples of how compliance domains are defined and control objectives applied to meet industry standards, regulations, and business decisions. The framework establishes and maintains online services compliance more efficiently using staff and resources. It addresses the need to reduce the impact on operations teams from repeated requests for information from audits by developing a centralized compliance process.
I boken "Åter till full sysselsättning" (Tiden debatt 2012) argumenterar förbundsekonomen på Handels Stefan Carlén och utredaren och författaren Christer Persson för en mer aktiv finanspolitik i syfte att motverka arbetslösheten. Presentationen hölls på Arena Idés ekonomiska råds seminarium den 14 januari 2013 då också Socialdemokraternas gruppsekreterare Emma Lennartsson deltog.
This document summarizes statistics from the Arizona Department of Education State Personnel Development Grant regarding their efforts to increase the number of speech language pathologists with master's degrees working in Arizona schools from 2008-2012. It shows the number of residents and non-residents admitted and graduated each year. It also provides examples of success stories of students who participated in the program.
This document summarizes the achievements of the Arizona Department of Education State Personnel Development Grant over 5 years in increasing the number of highly qualified speech-language pathologists in Arizona schools. It notes the total students admitted and graduated each year between 2008-2012. Highlights include over 75 Arizona residents graduating in the last 3 years and more scheduled in the next 3 years. It also celebrates the increasing diversity of the graduates and two student success stories.
The document discusses active and passive voice in sentences. It provides examples of sentences written in active voice where the subject performs the action and examples of the same sentences rewritten in passive voice where the subject receives the action. It covers active and passive forms for sentences written in present, past, and future tenses.
Urban innovation - changing the way we work - reducing carbon footprint - social innovation - mobile knowledge workers meet nomads - elderly meet youth - education meets business - sharing experience and knowledge in a social conducive state-of-the-art environment - news ways of collaboration
The document discusses breakthroughs in information technology that can make cities smarter. It describes how sensors, networks, and data analytics can provide insights that improve outcomes across various city systems, including transportation, energy, water, and public safety. The core idea is that digital and physical systems are converging, allowing cities to leverage data to develop insight and wisdom. Examples are provided of cities using these technologies to monitor infrastructure in real-time, predict problems, and better coordinate resources.
Nicola Villa - Connected Urban Development program updateShane Mitchell
The document presents a blueprint for connected urban development focusing on making cities more connected, sustainable, and transforming through the use of technology. It discusses areas like connected and sustainable buildings, mobility, energy, and socio-economics. Specific examples mentioned include urban eco maps in San Francisco, urban energy management in Madrid, and personal travel assistants in Seoul. The goal is to use ICT (information and communications technology) to better plan, manage, and develop sustainable urban economies by connecting various city systems and engaging citizens.
This document discusses realizing smart city ecosystems through smart services and smart citizen networks. It describes viewing smart cities from the perspective of an ICT innovation research center and living lab, and catalyzing their impact. Smart citizen networks are discussed in the context of technological trends, community trends, and networked citizen dashboard services that can provide real-time data on energy use, traffic, water management, and more. Indirect business models for smart cities are also addressed.
The Agency for Information Society Services aims to improve public administration performance and increase citizen comfort through centralized government IT systems, common methodologies and standards, and partnering with other public institutions to develop e-government policies, applications and provide IT support. The agency faces challenges in transitioning to a more client-oriented structure and gaining financial autonomy, but offers partnerships to other institutions to develop e-government solutions.
IBM collaborates with government leaders to transform services, improve outcomes of social programs, facilitate global trade, protect borders and enhance public safety.
IBM offers an Intelligent Transportation solution that provides three key capabilities:
1. Increases situational awareness for traffic operators by analyzing patterns of traffic conditions, flows, and events across a city.
2. Offers centralized monitoring of real-time traffic congestion, device status, and events to help operators respond to issues.
3. Helps traffic planners analyze historical traffic performance data to identify ways to improve future traffic flow, such as adjusting light intervals or lane configurations.
Creating Smarter Cities 2011 - 03 - Joe Dignan - Microsoft - Connected govern...Smart Cities Project
Cities are the world’s economic engines and we are in the grips of a second great migration to the city. The analyst community has highlighted that the critical enabling mechanism to ameliorate these challenges is a gestalt ICT framework. Microsoft is a partner for a majority of the world’s cities and is taking up the challenge to define a global ICT framework for cities as part of their connected government framework.
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The document summarizes a presentation on intelligent energy management for buildings. It discusses how energy monitoring, fault detection, demand response, and smart grid integration can help buildings reduce energy consumption by 50% to meet international emissions targets. Case studies are presented showing how energy management systems at the Kempinski Dead Sea Hotel achieved 30% savings through automated monitoring and control.
This document summarizes IBM's perspective on cloud computing in 2011 and beyond. It discusses how cloud computing leverages existing technologies like virtualization, automation, and standardization to provide benefits like low costs, flexibility, simplicity, and rapid provisioning. IBM positions itself as focusing on enterprise clients and industries, with cloud services that are optimized, integrated, and managed. Examples are given of how governments and educational institutions are using the cloud to increase efficiency, collaboration, and access to resources.
The document discusses several megatrends shaping the IT world including growth in emerging markets, increasing amounts of data ("big data"), security threats, analytics, cloud computing, mobility, and social business. It outlines IBM's transformation to a "smarter" approach focused on instrumented, interconnected and intelligent systems. Key technologies discussed include Watson, predictive analytics, expert integrated systems, storage class memory, and mobile/cloud platforms. The trends point to a more data-centric architecture and analytics approaches needed to make sense of unprecedented data volumes and varieties.
Bull Open Source Feedback OW2con11, Nov 24-25, ParisOW2
This document discusses trends in computing including the explosion of data and devices, the transition to cloud computing and software as a service, and the increasing computerization of business processes. It notes challenges around security and sovereignty. Bull positions itself as the European leader in mission critical digital systems focusing on high performance, security, customization. It discusses Bull's role across the value chain from infrastructure to applications and its goal to support the shift to cloud while ensuring trust.
Smarter planet and smarter city kth indek eng 120925Andreas Lundgren
The document discusses how instrumented, interconnected, and intelligent systems can help cities optimize outcomes through insights gained from analyzing data patterns and managing information. It provides examples of how predictive analytics have helped reduce crime rates, streamline transportation systems, and transform social services. The overall message is that smarter cities can increase prosperity by using data to make better decisions, anticipate problems, and coordinate resources effectively.
The document discusses challenges for service level assurance in open innovation projects. It outlines demographic and societal challenges facing cities, such as an aging population and talent management issues. It then discusses metrics for evaluating business value, agile deployment, and sustainable delivery of services. The document proposes a smart city cloud platform using a networked infrastructure and core management services. It argues that converging digital, physical, natural, and human infrastructures using an integrated network and virtualized computing infrastructure is essential for smart information discovery and decision making in cities.
This document discusses how cities can become more resilient by gathering data from various systems and devices, using machine learning to develop knowledge representations, and employing reasoning algorithms to decide the best actions in response to unexpected events. The goal is for cities to respond to events effectively by coordinating public services and resources through interoperable systems informed by sophisticated event analysis.
The document discusses plans for a next generation datacenter and TechCity collaboration in Sheffield, UK. It provides an overview of objectives to establish a premier datacenter infrastructure and collaboration network to stimulate business and attract investment. Key private sector partners are identified to finance, build, operate and manage the datacenters. The project has support from local government and higher education institutions. Initial funding strategies and timelines are outlined with the goal of the first datacenter space being available within two years.
The document discusses how cities can plan for smarter infrastructure and services by leveraging IBM software solutions. It notes that urban populations are growing rapidly and cities must compete to attract businesses and talent. IBM Rational software can help cities prioritize initiatives, design citizen-centered solutions, deliver projects faster, and protect applications. The solutions provide capabilities for strategic planning, alignment of stakeholders, and managing the execution of smarter city investments.
Big data a possible game changer for e-governanceSomenath Nag
Big data is an IT trend on the fast track. It is one of the most disruptive IT trends that will change the way business is done today. It will make the organizations a proactive one from the current reactive state through the insights generated from the vast volume of data that is getting generated across different medium. There is a huge potential of using Big Data in e-governance projects for improving efficiency, transparency, and resource utilization of the system.
Net flix embracingfailure re-invent2014-141113085858-conversion-gate02~Eric Principe
This document discusses Netflix's approach to embracing failure through fault injection testing. Netflix has over 50 million members across 50+ countries and streams over 1 billion hours of content per month. To ensure high availability, Netflix designs its complex distributed systems for failure by implementing exception handling, fault tolerance, fallbacks, auto-scaling, and redundancy. However, testing failures at such a large scale is challenging. Netflix developed several "monkey" tools that randomly inject failures like instance reboots or availability zone outages to validate system resilience. More advanced tools like Fault Injection Testing (FIT) allow simulating specific failure scenarios by injecting errors or latency at various points. This helps Netflix continuously validate assumptions and discover issues to further improve availability.
Leading private-equity-firms-that-invest-in-healthcare-part-vi~Eric Principe
This document profiles 16 private equity firms that invest in healthcare companies. It provides brief descriptions of each firm, including their location, typical investment sizes, sectors of focus, and some portfolio companies. The firms range in size from those focusing on early stage companies to larger buyout funds, and represent a variety of specializations within the healthcare industry.
The document shows closing stock prices and percentage changes for various companies over different time periods ranging from quarters to 10 years. It ranks over 100 companies and provides their ticker, name, closing prices for 2004, 2009, 2013, 2014 and percentage changes for various periods of time including quarters, years, and longer time frames of 5 and 10 years. The data allows for comparisons of stock price performance and changes over different durations for a variety of companies.
The document discusses new innovations that are disrupting HR technology. It introduces the concept of an HR Tech Engagement Stack, which covers technologies that can drive engagement throughout the employee lifecycle, from recruitment and onboarding to learning and development and employee recognition. Specifically, it highlights how startups are developing new technologies focused on learning, recognition, and feedback to boost employee engagement.
The partnership between DXC Technology and Duck Creek Technologies provides insurers with a modern digital platform that accelerates speed to market through their combined offering. Their joint solution delivers policy administration, billing, and business process services to more than 170 insurers worldwide, providing benefits such as reduced implementation costs, enhanced customer experiences, and increased automation and efficiency. DXC customers now have access to Duck Creek's leading insurance software-as-a-service platform along with DXC's full range of business process services.
2015.03.17 media release_-_behavior_services_2~Eric Principe
A lawsuit has been filed against Behavior Services of the Rockies for violating the Americans with Disabilities Act by failing to provide a sign language interpreter for meetings with Kirstin Kurlander, the deaf mother of Jax Kurlander, a 4-year-old boy receiving autism services. When Kirstin requested an interpreter for a meeting to discuss Jax's assessment plan, BSOTR refused and told the family they would need to find services elsewhere. The lawsuit alleges that BSOTR's actions discriminated against Kirstin and requests that the court order BSOTR to provide interpreters and make up for the lapse in services to Jax. The Colorado Cross-Disability Coalition filed the lawsuit on
Rukaiyah Adams is the chief investment officer at Meyer Memorial Trust, one of the largest charitable foundations in the Pacific Northwest. Under her leadership, Meyer Memorial Trust has delivered top quartile investment performance and increased assets managed by diverse managers and women managers significantly. Adams previously oversaw trading desks at The Standard and currently chairs the Oregon Investment Council.
Global natural disasters have increased insured losses and highlighted gaps in risk coverage. Insurers are updating risk assessment models using AI and improved data to better understand emerging risks, price policies accurately, and help close coverage gaps. They are also leveraging AI to strengthen risk management through continuous risk assessment, real-time monitoring, and risk prevention initiatives to improve underwriting profitability and reduce losses. These strategies aim to make insurers more prepared for evolving risks and help create more awareness and optimal protection for policyholders.
The document summarizes the 401(k) retirement savings plan offered by McKesson Corporation. Key details include:
- Employees can contribute 1-75% of pay as pre-tax or Roth elective deferrals, and 1-25% as after-tax contributions. McKesson matches 50-100% on the first 5% contributed.
- Eligibility is after 2 months for full-time employees and 1 year for part-time/temporary. Employees are automatically enrolled at 5% unless they opt out.
- Loans, hardship withdrawals and distributions are allowed under certain circumstances. Distributions include options for cash, company stock or a combination.
- Employees choose investments from core options, target date
Fleming martin whitepaper-bringing-the-executive-search-function-in-house~Eric Principe
- The document discusses the benefits and challenges of building an in-house executive search team. It summarizes perspectives from interviews with over 25 leaders in the field.
- The key benefits cited include improved quality, speed, and efficiency of recruiting due to deep institutional knowledge of the company culture. In-house recruiters can also provide valuable insights beyond just making hires through long-term market research and candidate relationships.
- However, it requires a significant investment of $1M or more annually. Companies should only pursue this option if senior leadership is fully committed to supporting the function long-term.
The document summarizes numerous property/casualty insurance rate and rule filings approved by the Tennessee Department of Commerce and Insurance. Many of the filings increased loss cost multipliers or rates to reduce the impact of approved loss cost decreases. Others involved rate increases for specific lines like homeowners, commercial auto, or workers compensation of between 5-25%. One filing withdrew a $20 fee for dishonored payments.
STS is a subsidiary of an Alaskan Native Corporation and participates in the SBA's 8(a) Business Development program. It has offices across the US and globally. STS has capabilities in engineering, environmental consulting, and construction management due to a mentor-protégé relationship with Tetra Tech. It offers diverse staff with technical expertise to perform large, complex domestic and international projects for government and commercial clients.
Nurse & PA Recruitment and Retention Annual Report FY19
The annual report summarizes recruitment and retention efforts for nurses and physician assistants in Fiscal Year 2019. A total of 672 nurses were hired, including 156 new graduate nurses. The nurse workforce grew to over 5,900. Key challenges included recruiting a diverse applicant pool and improving internal processes to better support hiring teams. Recruitment initiatives included career fairs that attracted over 900 applicants. The report provides metrics on the nursing workforce such as education levels, experience, and age distribution to guide future recruitment and retention goals.
This document provides information about two upcoming book fairs in California in January and February 2015 hosted by Douglas Stewart Fine Books Ltd. It includes the event details and locations for the Pasadena Antiquarian Book, Print, Photo and Paper Fair from January 31-February 1, 2015 at the Pasadena Convention Center and the California International Antiquarian Book Fair from February 6-8, 2015 at the Oakland Marriott City Center. It encourages interested parties to sign up for their monthly email newsletter to receive information about new acquisitions.
Almeda health 2019 05-23-bot-g-budget-combined~Eric Principe
This document provides options and estimated financial impacts for Alameda Health System's FY20 budget. It outlines potential cost-saving measures including a wage freeze, furloughs, benefits restructuring, and evaluating lower margin programs. Estimated savings range from $300,000 to over $7 million. It also lists executive leadership positions and their total FTE counts to be included in the FY20 budget.
This document provides an overview of tools and resources for starting and managing an Adult Family Home business. It discusses expenses involved in starting the business, obtaining necessary licenses and permits, choosing a business structure, setting up accounts and filing systems. Sections cover organizing finances and records, managing employees and clients, marketing strategies, and Medicaid billing. The toolkit is intended to help Adult Family Home owners successfully launch and operate their business in accordance with regulatory requirements.
- The presentation provides an overview of Cross Country Healthcare's Q2 2019 financial results and outlook for Q3 2019. It discusses Cross Country Healthcare's business segments, growth strategies, and market opportunities.
- Cross Country Healthcare reported revenue of $202.8 million for Q2 2019 and expects revenue between $200-205 million for Q3 2019. Adjusted EBITDA was $6.3 million for Q2 2019 and is expected to be between $5.5-6.5 million for Q3 2019.
- The company aims to expand its managed service programs, diversify its service offerings, and strengthen client relationships to achieve consistent, sustainable growth above market rates.
Amazon is looking to enter the healthcare space by leveraging several of its existing advantages including its large customer base, brand reputation, logistics infrastructure, and experience building platforms and handling back-end functions. Some of the key areas it is exploring include becoming an online pharmacy by acquiring PillPack, developing its own claims processing system, setting up an online marketplace for health benefits, partnering to provide insurance products like stop-loss coverage, and developing products and services targeted at Medicare/Medicaid beneficiaries. Overall, Amazon aims to simplify and standardize messy and complex parts of the healthcare system while improving the customer experience.
The document discusses technology challenges and opportunities for California's Whole Person Care pilots. It finds that common data sharing needs include care coordination platforms, data quality monitoring, analytics and reporting tools, and identity management. Challenges include building consensus on technology approaches, aggregating diverse data, ensuring technology complies with privacy policies, and overcoming partner skepticism. The document presents case studies of Contra Costa and Marin counties' approaches. It concludes that pilots have made progress establishing infrastructure for integrated care but continued work is needed, and technology can help but not solve organizational challenges alone.
7. Growth Markets
Bruno Di Leo
Senior Vice President, Sales and Distribution
D.C. Chien
General Manager, Greater China
Takreem El-Tahomy
General Manager, Middle East and Africa