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Breakthroughs in Learning Algorithms
From The Eponymous Pickle

Breakthroughs in Learning Algorithms

In CACM:  Some technical notes on a 'Terascale' learning algorithm.  Pointed at new sources of very big data.  Learning is the very crux of artificial intelligence...

Innovation is Everyone's Job
From The Eponymous Pickle

Innovation is Everyone's Job

I think this is very obvious.  But it is up to the enterprise to establish the right context to produce innovation.  Context based on the company's goals, and the...

Institute of General Semantics
From The Eponymous Pickle

Institute of General Semantics

Discovered.   This is not about computational semantics,  the form I have most often encountered,  but behavior. Worth knowing about.  "  ...  The Institute of....

Neuro-Semiotics Applied
From The Eponymous Pickle

Neuro-Semiotics Applied

My former colleague J Duncan Berry is interviewed about Neuro-Semiotics.   A topic he introduced me to.  See also his site.     He describes himself as a  ' ......

Data Scientists Needed
From The Eponymous Pickle

Data Scientists Needed

Not unexpected, with more data being gathered than ever before, sensors becoming common, and business analytics leveraging this data towards business leverage,More...

Getting Ready for Big Data
From The Eponymous Pickle

Getting Ready for Big Data

Some useful thoughts and real world examples from the McKinsey quarterly.  And ultimately how we have to integrate both business process definition and business...

Digital Disruption
From The Eponymous Pickle

Digital Disruption

In Mashable, thoughts about digital disruption.  yes we know this already, but it deserves repeating:" ... No matter what industry you are in, you are their target...

General Mills Portal for Open Innovation
From The Eponymous Pickle

General Mills Portal for Open Innovation

A good example of a CPG company looking for new ideas.  Open innovation at work: " ... General Mills launched G-WIN Digital, an avenue for consumers to give the...

Shopping Carts Tracking Every Move
From The Eponymous Pickle

Shopping Carts Tracking Every Move

A  piece by Martin Lindstrom on the dynamic activation of shopping carts to track the movement of shoppers.  The idea is not new, we utilized the basic idea as...

Subliminal Sound Ads on Your Phone
From The Eponymous Pickle

Subliminal Sound Ads on Your Phone

In Engadget: Ads to be triggered on you phone based on subliminal sound at a given location.  This is a little like augmented reality, which can be triggered by...

A Technology Driven World
From The Eponymous Pickle

A Technology Driven World

In Forbes:  How to Be an Optimist in a Pessimistic Time: A Techonomy Manifesto ..   The conference mentioned is now over, but the thoughts are interesting:   ...

Tricks of Holiday Marketing
From The Eponymous Pickle

Tricks of Holiday Marketing

Martin Lindstrom is interviewed in Bloomberg on the complexity of holiday retail marketing. " ...  In an interview with Bloomberg.com

IBM to Acquire DemandTec: Delivers Analytics via the Cloud
From The Eponymous Pickle

IBM to Acquire DemandTec: Delivers Analytics via the Cloud

I see in a press release that IBM has agreed to acquire DemandTec.    Our enterprise retail innovation center was an early evaluator of DemandTec, which brought...

In Defense of Gamification
From The Eponymous Pickle

In Defense of Gamification

In Gigaom:   " ... Gamifications can have a bad rap, admits Gabe Zichermann, CEO of Gamification.Co. He said people think it means turning everything into Angry...

Higher Education Bubble
From The Eponymous Pickle

Higher Education Bubble

I have been hearing this term used more and more.  It has a Wikipedia entry.  I am still old school on this, but can see some of the symptoms.   It is likely better...

Siri Changing Education
From The Eponymous Pickle

Siri Changing Education

Received, interesting thoughts. " ... We at Onlinecollege.org recently came across your blog and were excited to share with you an article

Rethinking the Funnel
From The Eponymous Pickle

Rethinking the Funnel

A very good article on the innovation funnel.  We actively used the concept in new business development efforts to think about work planned and underway.  I like...

Global Supply Chain Visibility
From The Eponymous Pickle

Global Supply Chain Visibility

Video in CGT:  How Amway achieved global supply chain visibility. 

Data Temperature
From The Eponymous Pickle

Data Temperature

So what does the concept of 'data temperature' mean?   Summarized here, with links to more detail:- Hot = accessed all the time, or extremely important data requiring...

Visual.ly Blog Launched
From The Eponymous Pickle

Visual.ly Blog Launched

I see that the Visual.ly blog on data and design has been launched.   I like their general approach, but am leary of the overuse of infographics.  I like to see...
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