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Dynamic workplaces are designed to help companies decrease costs, boost efficiencies and fundamentally alter the way their people work. IBM has been on a path to digitalize most manual processes—HR, procurement, learning and travel—and the impact on how people work has been profound. Today, people within IBM look at the e-workplace the way they look at relationships with other people, not as formal communications channels. In this session, Ralph Senst described how implementing an e-workplace can dramatically change an organization.
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Dennis Lee talks about Amazon.com and how it has grown from a small bookseller into a place where you can literally find, discover and buy almost anything. As the company has grown, key lessons have been learned by leveraging customer data: where they click, what they search for, and what they buy. Special colloquia lecturer, Dennis Lee, of Amazon.com, discusses the evolution of the Amazon software platform from the early days to today. He highlights several areas across the company where data have been used in interesting ways that reveal very rich yet unintuitive behavior.
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Distance Learning at The Cleveland Museum of Art allows classes to enrich their studies of history, language arts, science, math and the visual arts through the museum’s collection of art and artifacts from around the world. Dale K. Hilton, Director of Distance Learning at the Cleveland Museum of Art, explains how the museum’s exhibits can be shared with students through two-way and fully interactive videoconference conversations with museum educators.
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Luis Alberto Urrea, member of the Latino Literature Hall of Fame, is a prolific and acclaimed writer who uses his dual-culture life experiences to explore greater themes of love, loss and triumph. Born in Tijuana, Mexico, to a Mexican father and an American mother, Urrea has published extensively in all the major genres and is currently published by Little, Brown and Company.
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The engineering story of the fifth-longest suspension bridge in the US. What did it take to span a mile-wide, fjord-like channel and turn more than 47 million pounds of structural steel, enough cable wire to circle the world twice, and nearly 115,000 cubic yards of concrete into a striking and sturdy new landmark?
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Award-winning writer, director, and producer David Lynch discusses his films and his 30-year relationship with Transcendental Meditation and its role in his creative process. He is joined by physicist John Hagelin, who was featured in the documentary "What the Bleep Do We Know?" and neuroscientist Dr. Fred Travis, Director of the Center for Brain, Consciousness, and Cognition at Maharishi University of Management. The program is sponsored in joint partnership by the College of Arts and Sciences and the University of Washington Alumni Association.
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This programs are perfectly positioned as provider of leadership in global issues.
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This documentary is a journey across three continents to look at three watersheds and the problems they are facing. Experts predict that by the end of the 21st century, over 80 percent of the world's population will be concentrated in urban areas. An increasing number of urban poor will rely on urban waterways for recreation, food, and escape from urban pressures. Today's urban water problems are difficult to see without knowledge of watershed processes and the impacts of human development.
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This interview explores the career path of Karen Hamilton, the Business Development Director at Lante Corporation, a service which helps companies manage their extended enterprises.
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Curt Doolittle is managing partner and chief strategy officer of Ascentium Corporation, an award-winning, integrated technology and marketing consultency. He has bought and sold over 150 companies, in a range of fields from construction to law to technology.
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