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Analytics I: Becoming a Winner in the Marketplace
12|5|12   |   2:32   |   1 comment

Rich Luciano describes the advantage small, nimble companies have in using business analytics to seize a competitive advantage.
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Analytics II: Pulling Nuggets From the Data
12|5|12   |   3:35   |   No comments

Rich Luciano shows how drilling down into the data uncovers the nuggets which lead to better, sounder decision-making.
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Crossing the Security Perimeter
11|14|12   |   2:56   |   No comments

Connectivity with enterprise partners creates an increasingly complex and challenging security environment.
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The Changing Face of IT Security
11|14|12   |   5:00   |   No comments

The growth of big-data, the BYOD phenomenon, and the popularity of social media all present challenges to the notion of defending the security perimeter.
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Making Midsized Firms More Competitive
7|30|12   |   4:41   |   No comments

Michael McClurg describes how midsized businesses can serve customers who are empowered by Internet and social media information channels.
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Defining Smarter Commerce
7|30|12   |   5:17   |   1 comment

Michael McClurg describes how midsize businesses can leverage Smarter Commerce to serve customers who are empowered by Internet and social media information channels.
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Becoming a Social Business
6|12|12   |   7:05   |   No comments

Alistair Rennie, general manager of social business at IBM, discusses what it means to become a social business, what makes for a successful social strategy, and how social improves the enterprise and customer relationships.
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Healthcare in the Connected Age
3|22|12   |   6:40   |   No comments

Sean Hogan, vice president of global healthcare delivery systems at IBM, discusses the fundamental shift happening in healthcare today, how this is impacting businesses, and the role IT plays in this transformation.
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Commerce Meets the Cloud
12|12|11   |   05:40   |   No comments

Jim Comfort, vice president of global technology services, IBM, discusses the intersection of cloud computing and commerce applications and how this paves the way for better analytics.
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Buzz Aldrin Talks Science, Space & Tech
4|5|11   |   7:09   |   2 comments

An interview with American icon Buzz Aldrin, the second human being to step foot on the moon, filmed at the 50th anniversary of Plantronics.
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Pandora Gives Car Radio a Thumbs Up
1|20|11   |   2:29   |   No comments

Tim Westergren, founder and CEO of Pandora, talks about his company’s push into automotives and the way his Internet music service is enhancing, not destroying, the future of radio.
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Digitizing the Role of the CMO
1|6|11   |   6:45   |   No comments

As the social Web reinvents the way businesses operate and manage customer relations, the role of the chief marketing officer is rapidly evolving as well. Richard Brandon, CMO of MLL Telecom, discusses the ways social media have and have not factored into his role, as well as the challenge of leveraging the Web to serve a targeted audience.
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Alabama Power CIO: Delivering at the Speed of Value
11|8|10   |   7:46   |   No comments

Alabama Power has been wrestling with challenges everyone else is seeing. But it is also trying to be more customer focused, improving upon its delivery time and deploying things like smart metering, which helps the business and the customer.
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Toromont Industries CIO: Technology-Led Innovation
11|8|10   |   10:07   |   No comments

Tomoromont CIO Mike Cuddy has faced, like all CIOs, years of cutbacks, but now all of the deferred work needs to be done in a short amount of time. His team's value has been very apparent as it uses technology to innovate for Toromont customers.
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Improving Health by Harnessing Data
6|30|10   |   6:11   |   No comments

As CTO of Health and Human Services, Todd Park discusses new demands created by the healthcare bill, and how opening data will improve the country's health.
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An Open Senate
6|30|10   |   8:36   |   No comments

Andrew Hoppin, CIO of the New York State Senate, details his stance on cloud computing and the IT challenges he faces as the Senate moves forward in opening data and collaborating with the public online.
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Santiago’s E-Mayor
1|8|10   |   7:53   |   No comments

An interview with Claudio Orrego Lorrain, the Mayor of Penalolen, a municipality in Santiago that is leading the world in transparent e-government.
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Priorities in Financial Risk Management
1|7|10   |   4:28   |   No comments

Edward Schreiber, Executive VP and Chief Risk Officer at TD Bank, provides insight into some of the top risk management priorities that banks face.
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Heartland Breach: Lessons Learned
12|17|09   |   5:37   |   No comments

Heartland Payment Systems suffered a major security breach at the hands of Russian Hackers. It sent shockwaves through the industry. We talked to CSO Kris Herrin about the attack and what's being done at Heartland and across the industry.
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Why Analytics Is Key to Success
12|14|09   |   6:41   |   No comments

The CIO of Wilton Re, Andy Wood, tells us why he thinks that business intelligence and analytics are critical to his company’s success.
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Chile’s E-Tax Success Story
12|3|09   |   7:21   |   7 comments

IE travels to Santiago to meet Ricardo Escobar, Commissioner of Chile’s Internal Revenue Service, which has succeeded in getting an astonishing 98% of the country’s population to file their taxes online.
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Executive Takes: San Francisco Improving Access to City Data
11|25|09   |   8:45   |   No comments

Mayor Gavin Newsom discusses the payoffs and challenges of San Francisco's ambitious project, dataSF.org. This project gives city data like transit, maps, and crime reports back to the public through open machine-readable formats.
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Mobile, SOA & Social Networks Change Insurance Business
11|20|09   |   5:34   |   No comments

Mass Mutual Insurance CIO Robert Casale talks about how technologies like SOA, mobile computing, and social networks are radically changing his company's business. Social networks in particular are a new way for the company to listen to customers.
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Web's Speed to Audience Transforming Movie Business
11|20|09   |   5:41   |   No comments

Mandalay chairman Peter Guber discusses how the Web is changing everything from distribution to business models, warning resistors that the music business didn't die because of the Web – it just created a new business model.
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