{"id":95,"date":"2005-04-08T10:28:21","date_gmt":"2005-04-08T15:28:21","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=95"},"modified":"2024-06-11T14:57:20","modified_gmt":"2024-06-11T21:57:20","slug":"from-hr-to-industrial-design","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/?p=95","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;From HR to Industrial Design&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BusinessWeek has an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessweek.com\/magazine\/content\/05_16\/b3929001_mz001.htm\">excellent article<\/a> on IBM&#8217;s business makeover which discusses how, as their operation evolves, it&#8217;s becoming less grounded in real products (which are more and more just commodities) and turning  increasingly to &#8220;virtual&#8221; services. This provides an excellent example of the flipside of VR: as virtual worlds and simulations become increasingly realistic with graphics and simpler interfaces, real world operations are migrating towards them as well. I think there&#8217;s a collision on the horizon &#8211; a &#8220;rebang&#8221;, if you will. Even if IBM fails, the trend is there. Now let&#8217;s wait and see if Big Blue can successfully shed that earthbound hardware heritage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BusinessWeek has an excellent article on IBM&#8217;s business makeover which discusses how, as their operation evolves, it&#8217;s becoming less grounded in real products (which are more and more just commodities) and turning increasingly to &#8220;virtual&#8221; services. This provides an excellent &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/?p=95\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[106,31,104],"class_list":["post-95","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-retransmit","tag-metaverse","tag-transreality","tag-virtualgoods"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=95"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2634,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95\/revisions\/2634"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=95"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=95"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=95"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}