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...Each campaign is striving to persuade undecided voters in the 13 or so states where the polls show an extremely tight race in which either candidate has a reasonable chance to prevail," said IBM Professor of Business and Government Roger B. Porter, an economic policy adviser in three Republican presidential administrations. "As a result, both candidates are attending rallies long into the night in these key states...
...million employees, representing half of all big U.S. companies, routinely fire off pop-up missives in lieu of cumbersome conference calls or e-mail--which now seems as plodding as a telegram. "This is no longer about teenagers and chat," says John Patrick, vice president for Internet technology at IBM, whose Lotus Development unit produces Sametime, the leading instant-messaging program for business use. "If I were to check right now," Patrick says, "there are probably 100 [instant-message] meetings going on all over IBM...
...more playing telephone tag or pulling down an e-mail screen. Instead, IM users can spot who is online at a glance and start chatting right away. And they can do so across time zones, oceans and continents. At the stroke of midnight last New Year's Eve, 80 IBM experts from around the world huddled online to monitor the company's defenses against the Y2K bug. "If there had been a crisis," Patrick says, "all the knowledgeable people would have instantly shared their expertise...
...reduction of our greenhouse gas production. Unfortunately, tangible successes for control of these substances in the United States to date have come exclusively from the private sector, where individual companies and corporations have taken it upon themselves to explore new alternatives. In the past year, Ford, DaimlerChrysler, Dow Chemical, IBM and Johnson & Johnson have all made (and followed through with) pledges to cut their production of carbon dioxide; recently, Du Pont, Shell and others joined in a voluntary plan to reduce the wasteful use of energy and produce cleaner products. And just last week, BP and Ford donated $20 million...
Roger B. Porter, IBM professor of Business and Government teaches The American Presidency, and is one of the architects of modern presidential decision management...