IBM study on consumer digital media and entertainment habits

"Consumers are seeking consolidated, trustworthy content, recognition and community when it comes to mobile and Internet entertainment."

Most of these elements would apply to research information too.

You can download the survey here.

Using IBM's Visualization software in Libraries

Nice examples at OUseful Info on how to use IBM's Many Eyes for discovery purposes in libraries:

A new tool from IBM to analyze unstructured text

IBM's new Unstructured Information Modeler allows analyst automatically generate and edit taxonomies from unstructured text.

ABCs of collaborative innovation from IBM

IBM report (pdf) highlights ABCs of collaborative innovation within and extended entreprise

• Alignment

• Boundaries

• Commitment

The study finds that on 17% of CEO were relying in their R&D team for innovation. Employees, business partners and customers were ranked at the top for sources of innovation. The report also finds that 50% of strategic alliances fail.

Social bookmarking within corporations

Collaboration is one of the ingredients of working efficiently within the company's firewalls. IBM has been developing their dogear social bookmarking (pdf) system for corporations. I am not sure if they have released this product yet but it looks interesting. Meanwhile Honeywell is taking the lead and piloting a social bookmarking system developed by Connectbeam to connect their knowledge workers more efficiently and increase knowledge sharing and discovery. Indeed as many large companies, we need something similar for Reed Elsevier.