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How the “Frontier” Became the Slogan of Uncontrolled AI
Artificial intelligence (AI) has been billed as the next frontier of humanity: the newly available expanse whose exploration …
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Future of Innovation is Open
In CustomerThink, a well put overview:Why The Future Of Innovation Is Open By Jacob Morgan With the growth of technology and new ways of working, innovation...
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What if Augmented Reality is Everywhere?
During innovation sessions we came up with a number of AR scenarios. Location aware AR allows you to place content in any space. So imagine if you walked"...
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Digitizing Customer Journeys
In McKinsey. Recently took a broader look at this method.Digitizing customer journeys and processes: Stories from the front linesBy Chandana Asif, Jiro Hiraoka...
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IOT Contactless Payment by Visa
I continued a look into contactless payments by Smartphone, and found this recent mention of work Visa is doing to make payment even easier. Making anythingVisa...
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One Belt One Road
Am not an economist, but have worked with China retail, and noted the difference between western and Sino approaches. So it fascinates me to see this report onThe...
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Walmart Mobile Pay Success
My question about mobile pay systems got me a note that pointed to this article on the success of Walmart Pay. And its position behind systems from Samsung and...
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Creativity with a Collaborator
Teaching and understanding creativity. And thinking about the nature of people-machine collaboration.Want to Understand Creativity? Enlist an AI Collaborator...
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Why Don't We Pay for Everything via our Phones?
Payment via smartphone is still not near ubiquitous? Heard a presentation nearly ten years ago saying it was about to happen. I still don't do it. Don't know...
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Digital Pillars of Change
I taught a class at Columbia University on making change happen .... This is a digital view:Evolve Or Die: Why Digital Transformation Is More Important Than Ever...
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Will IKEA Sell Through the Amazon Marketplace?
Nothing fixed yet, but rumor is out that IKEA might start test selling through the Amazon marketplace. But also that Amazon might itself start selling furniture...
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Blockchain and ERP Analytic Collaboration
Interesting thought. It reminds me of a thought presented years ago, that once we had complete detailed and immutable information about what happens in a company...
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Leverhulme Centre for Future of Intelligence
I was reminded of this today, much more at the link.Leverhulme Centre for the Future of IntelligenceExploring the Impact of Artificial IntelligenceOur aim at the...
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Virtual Assistants for Retiree Communities
Had thought these devices could be good for retired communities. Here is an example from Technology Review. " .... A community of San Diego retirees is using the...
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Voice Design
Intrigued by the concept of voice design in bots. We worked with bots, but never got a chance to design voice to improve the User experience (UX) in this way. ...
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Amazon, Data and Store Operation
An interesting thought. In the past rating was also done by knowledgeable employees in the store. Now just organize it better. My own retail experience makes...
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Berners-Lee on Weaving the Web
Good piece and video on Tim Berners-Lee in the CACM. We experimented with the idea of hyperlinks in the 80s for knowledge capture and delivery. But the broader...
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Honda and Autonomous Driving
Does seem there has been relatively little word from Honda in this area. This article provides considerable detail. In particular regarding levels of autonomy....
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Debt in Machine Learning
The term was new to me, but O'Reilly discusses how this complexity measure changes and how to address it. This reminds me of complexity measures in retail. Could...
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VR As Retail Training Tool
Its been commonly suggested training is ideal method for training, and Wal-Mart is testing. But not yet likely by itself. People react differently to thingsWill...
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