IBM Retiree Healthcare
This morning, I attended a local gathering of approximately 45 retired IBMers at Founders Hall. As previously described, IBM has made arrangements with ExtendHealth to act as a broker to provide advice and enrollment for retirees with regard to Medigap, Medicare Advantage, Rx, Dental, and Vision insurance programs. The choices are complex and the consensus […]
IBM’s Grassroots Revival
IBM’s Grassroots Revival was a story by Eric Ransdel that ran in Fast Company Magazine twenty years ago. The magazine is tweeting away today celebrating the anniversary. The story is accurate and speaks for itself. Eric did a lot of research and developed a deep understanding of what was going on inside IBM with regard to […]
Significant Changes
The 5S will be my eighth iPhone and I can’t wait. I got up at 2:55 AM last Friday to place my order online. When I got to the very last step, a message appeared saying “Your carrier has a policy that shipments of the iPhone can only be made to your billing address of […]
Apple iPhones Five
As usual, the Apple management team did a great job in presenting their new products at yesterday’s keynote. As happened after the launch of the iPhone 4S two years ago, CNBC and others gave the company a lukewarm reaction saying there were no breakthroughs, but rather minor tweaks to what existed. Consistent with my view […]
The alphaWorks Group (on Facebook)
Thanks to David Gee for adding me to the alphaWorks group on Facebook. I am honored to be a member. I searched through the past 17 years of my blog and found a lot of references to aW. Perhaps the most meaningful is one from 2006 when I had attended the tenth anniversary of alphaWorks. […]
