Plazabridge Group is building tools to provide and leverage analytics! Good article validating why this is important.

New IBM Study Highlights Analytics as Top Priority for Today’s CIO

IBM Study — “The New Voice of the CIO” — Shows CIOs are Trying to Standardize Routine Tasks, While Driving New Forms of Innovation and Growth

Press Release Source: IBM CorporationOn Thursday September 10, 2009

ARMONK, N.Y., Sept. 10 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — A new global study of more than 2,500 Chief Information Officers (CIOs), released by IBM (NYSE: IBM) today, reveals that leveraging analytics to gain a competitive advantage and improve business decision-making is now the top priority for CIOs. More than four out of five (83 percent) survey respondents identified business intelligence and analytics – the ability to see patterns in vast amounts of data and extract actionable insights – as the way they will enhance their organizations’ competitiveness.

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Masters of Design 2009

This year’s design issue features an array of dazzling talent: Coke’s pop artist David Butler, Pentagram’s infomaniac Lisa Strausfeld, the impresario David Rockwell, British architect David Adjaye, and the maestro of Italian design, Alberto Alessi. Plus, the women reinventing consumer electronics, China’s answer to Nike and more…READ»

Teresa Spangler’s 2005 Presentation to a group of 1100 at Coca Cola World Headquarters, on Women’s force in World Economics, Leadership and Change.  Relevant information for today too!…. Click here for presentation