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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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Assessing Networks
Thoughtful piece in the HBR blogs on assessing your network. Thinking of this as interesting " ... They came up with three components that would make members...
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Microsoft Labs Streams Live
The ACM Bulletin Announces:" ... For the first time, Microsoft Research will present its Faculty Summit in a virtual forum freely accessible by the public. On July...
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Strategy and Innovation
In Innovation Excellence: A good discussion of the difference between strategy and innovation. Obvious, perhaps, but innovation should be included to some degree...
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Self Checkout Here to Stay
Correspondent Kevin Judd sends along an article making the case that the self-checkout is here to stay. I agree, the decrease in labor requirements in retail...
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MiniTel to go Dark on June 30
Ars Technica reports on the closure of Minitel, the popular French precursor to the Internet, on June 30. Apparently it is still is profitable to French Telecom...
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Microsoft Reinventing Itself
Suggestion that Microsoft is in the midst of reinventing itself, with Windows 8 and more. In particular the fact that smartphones will increasingly become our...
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Inserting Your Thoughts Anywhere in 3D
In FastCompany: This general idea has been around for some time, but it has never been implemented well. Consider the advertising implications." ... Itching to...
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Surveying the Marketing Industry
In Analytics Magazine from Informs: IBM surveys the marketing industry, providing some interesting statistics about the relationship of IT and marketing needs....
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Individual Price Tags Disappearing
In the state of Massachussets, individual price tags may no longer be required on store items, if a new bill is passed. Replaced by individual digital scanners...
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Visual Root
Always interested in new ways to make complex data, processes, sensors and their interrelationships as clear as possible to the decision makers. And make theHere...
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Mobile Retail
Mobile is changing retail at a remarkable speed. We saw the implications of this very early on, before the smartphone. A text based phone like the Blackberry...
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Putting Predictive Analytics to Work
Good Computerworld article. Emphasizing that it does not require a big budget, but does require business understanding and sponsors to agree that this is a priority...
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Interview with Target CMO
In Forbes: What is in Store for the Brand. Overview mention of a number of issues the big retailer is dealing with in marketing and merchandising, for example...
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Media Influence on Purchasing Decisions
A research brief on media influence. " ... According to The Media Comparisons Study, from TVB with Knowledge Networks, consumers credit TV ads as most influential...
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Global Food Supply Chain Improvement and Protection
I just got a chance to interview N2N Global. A business intelligence and analytics provider for food supply chains. Aimed at Food Safety, Quality Assurance and...
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Reinventing Reading
Citia, An App that aims to reinvent reading. An intriguing notion I am exploring. " ... Some of the world
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Companies that Reinvented Themselves
A slide show from Baseline. It is instructive to look at these examples, some very well known. I think many companies need to look at the possibility of reinventing...
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Google as a 2 Billion $ Advertiser
In Adage: The forward motion continues. Really the first time that analytics methods have been applied to the complete process of delivering ads. Not surprising...
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Signal and Noise
An excerpt from Nassim Taleb's forthcoming book: Antifragile. On order." ... When consuming information, we strive for more signal and less noise. Intuitively...
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