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The IBM Institute for Business Value surveyed more than 1,100 executives and conducted in-depth interviews with 26 companies worldwide. This study shows how leading companies are integrating social into their strategies to:
- Create valued customer experiences
- Drive workforce productivity and effectiveness
- Accelerate innovation
Read all the results and discover how well organizations are facing the opportunities and challenges.
Military flares—the sort you see near car accidents and after Hurricane Sandy, lighting intersections in blacked-out lower Manhattan—are the basis for photographer Kevin Cooley’s series, Take Refuge.
(via fastcompany)
Light-emitting headset reduces tiredness
Sleeplessness can be bad for business and personal creativity, and there have already been numerous attempts to help people be more flexible with their shut-eye, from Sleepbox napping pods to desktop pillows. Now the Re-Timer device uses light to realign wearers’ bodyclocks and combat tiredness. READ MORE…
Mac users donate significantly more ($181.51) than Windows ($137.30) and Linux users ($116.54). Bill Gates may be a philanthropic legend at this point, but the less openly generous Steve Jobs apparently has more charitable fans.
Texas-based car rental company will offer just a single make, model and color
We’ve seen plenty of car-rental innovations over the years, including FlightCar, which rents out vehicles left in airport parking lots. More recently, however, we came across Silvercar. In a nutshell, the Texas-based company plans to rent out just a single color, make and model of car – the silver 2013 Audi A4 – and to use mobile technologies to take the hassle out of the rental process. READ MORE…
Sebastian Lindstrom’s What Took You So Long is a “disruptive filmmaking lab,” dedicated to traveling to the most remote corners of the globe to document people who are doing good things (and making money making ads for companies doing good things, too, of course).