April 2010

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From “Smart” to “Smarter” Business: How businesses are changing their business practices and strategies to compete successfully in a globalised world

In his talk to the Royal Institute of International Affairs in January 2010, Samuel J. Palmisano, Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer, IBM Corporation referred to the next ten years as “The Decade of Smart”, a world driven by:

Enormous computational power, now being used in pervasive and microscopic ways
Digital devices being connected through the Internet to form the “Internet of Things”
Intelligence that flows from the combination of processing power and advanced analytics

These features and enablers are changing the rules for business at a time when the business context is also changing and technology is still advancing. This means that, despite a background of turbulent change, smarter systems are creating real value in many areas right now: healthcare; finance and financial services; city management; infrastructure; energy, and retail, amongst others, are all benefiting and can all show measurable improvements.

Business leaders are having to change their business practices to stay ahead.

With greater knowledge and understanding comes greater power, and confidence to input into strategy. Speakers and participants will hear about smarter marketing and selling; smarter contact and communications: smarter thinking towards a smarter planet.

(For more, download the full pdf document)

Emerging Opportunities in China – The speaker is Dr Kegang Wu, MD, ChinaDirect UK Ltd / Chief China Adviser, British Chambers of Commerce. (This is a large mp3 file: 69MB)