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Cost of Customer Loss
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Cost of Customer Loss

In Inc.  Thoughtful short piece about the cost of customer attrition. " .... It may surprise you just how much each lost customer is costing your business.... "

Duke Synovate Research Center
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Duke Synovate Research Center

Brought to my attention. The Duke Synovate Research Center.  Sounds similar to our own Innovation Center founded in 2000.  It will include board members from CPG...

DemandTec Retail Challenge Scholarship Awards
From The Eponymous Pickle

DemandTec Retail Challenge Scholarship Awards

In an era rewarding mostly sports and celebrity, it is great to see math being noticed.  More. 

Stickers Acting as Sensors
From The Eponymous Pickle

Stickers Acting as Sensors

In general a nice idea.   Wireless sensors delivered as stickers.   With considerable potential application in retail. Gamifying implications. Worth following.More...

Breaking from Microsoft Office
From The Eponymous Pickle

Breaking from Microsoft Office

Walter Riker, who teaches MS office applications and is a true expert on their use, writes about their use and how that influences our work.  Nice job Walter. ...

Digitizing Innovation at P&G
From The Eponymous Pickle

Digitizing Innovation at P&G

My first post at Innovation Excellence was realized recently.  It was a re-post of an item in this blog on modeling and innovation at P&G.   I am glad to see it...

Disney Method
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Disney Method

In Innovation Excellence: Using the Disney Method.   By Paul Sloane.  A group parallel thinking method that we were introduced to now years ago that is based on...

Thinking Fast and Slow
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Thinking Fast and Slow

Freeman Dyson, physicist and favorite thinker and writer, insightfully reviews : Thinking, Fast and Slow, by Daniel Kahneman.  Excellent thoughts regarding HowThe...

Best of KYield
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Best of KYield

Interested in how the entrepreneur operates?   The ups and downs of selling the semantic enterprise?  Mark Montgomery, a long time correspondent,  has posteda index...

Changes in Consumer Loyalty
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Changes in Consumer Loyalty

In Walter Riker's excellent Curious Voyager:    Loyalty Now Includes Interest in What Companies Stand For.  Some good points and links.   I think part of the reason...

Rise of Enterprise Apps
From The Eponymous Pickle

Rise of Enterprise Apps

I recently attended an enterprise business analytics meeting where a number of management people were openly seeking enterprise apps to power their newly delivered...

Twilight of Email
From The Eponymous Pickle

Twilight of Email

GigaOm has a good piece on the end of email, now about 40 years old.  Yes, it has become increasingly annoying.  But its annoyance is created in large part by its...

Don't Limit What You Know
From The Eponymous Pickle

Don't Limit What You Know

A friend sends along a link out of of the HBR Blog network.  Don't let What You Know Limit What you Can Imagine.    You have to have effective ways to look outside...

A Billion Prices
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A Billion Prices

Once more I had cause to look at the Billion Prices project at MIT.   A way to calibrate prices generally and in real time by region?   Clever idea to syndicate...

Brain as Computer Model
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Brain as Computer Model

 In the New Mexican: Chris Wood at the Santa Fe Institute suggests that in an application  of bio-mimicry we could use the brain as a model for new kinds of computation...

Innov8 for Health Competition
From The Eponymous Pickle

Innov8 for Health Competition

I see that the results of the Innov8 for health competition,  held yesterday at  the GE Aviation Learning Center, has posted the results in their blog.  I got to...

SAP to buy SuccessFactors for $3.4 Billion
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SAP to buy SuccessFactors for $3.4 Billion

The price seems to be high, but the idea is right.  Enterprise company SAP is positioning itself for future work in Cloud applications. 

Buyology is Forbes #71
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Buyology is Forbes #71

I see that a company I have worked with,  Buyology Inc, is in Forbes as one of the 100 most promising companies.   It is at #71.  " ... Founded in 2008, this marketing...

Intelligent Solutions for Everyday Objects
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Intelligent Solutions for Everyday Objects

A continuation of work by Microsoft on embedded intelligence for everyday objects ...

More Market Apps
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More Market Apps

Yet another supermarket App, here at Giant Eagle.  Nothing very new.  The usual assortment of promotions, information, coupons and shopping list.  They are easy...
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