Smart Work

White Paper Raise your Work IQ
Discover how businesses are evolving the way employees work together to meet new business demands by fostering deeper collaborative relationships to create a sustainable advantage.
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White Paper Smart Work eBook
Get an in-depth look at how some of IBM's clients are better differentiating their business by redefining the way people work today.
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White Paper Smart Work for a Smarter Planet
Browse the new Smart Work site to get ideas on how to refine your processes to operate more intelligently and optimize business performance.
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Demo Smart Work 3D Interactive
Play the Smart Work 3D interactive application and pick up some insight into what the real business value of SOA is by looking at different operational scenarios.
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White Paper Ubench International
The auto leasing vendor met rising competitive pressures in the industry through real-time sensing and automated workflow system that has reduced administrative costs by 35% and insurance adjustment costs by 50%.
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Lean Six Sigma, BPM, and SOA: Accelerating Bottom Line Benefits

by Amy Larsen DeCarlo
Time is money. This axiom never truer than during rocky financial periods when the pressure to produce swift revenue results from any investment intensifies. In boom years and recessions alike, IT is expected to facilitate business efficiencies and innovations that yield significant cost reductions and increase profits. But during a downturn, many companies tighten or freeze budgets, expecting IT to do even more with less. » Read the column

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Spotlight: Smart Work Video

Internet Evolution explores what IBM's SmartWork initiative is all about, how it benefits corporations, what technologies are involved, and how to get started. We talked to the CIOof Mobitel, the CIO of Miami Dade County, and IBM executives.

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 Smart Work Video
About the Sponsor Why IBM for Business Process Management enabled by SOA Connectivity and Integration
Companies are combining the principles of Business Process Management (BPM) with the flexibility provided by SOA to move their levels of innovation and operational excellence higher. SOA software elements from IBM such as business dashboards, service repositories, tools, and rules engines help accelerate process improvements. And since software alone is not enough, IBM can also provide the expertise to deliver BPM through process knowledge, industry methods and models needed to make SOA-enabled BPM truly valuable. To learn more, visit us at: www.ibm.com/software/info/bpmsoa