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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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P&G's John Smale Passing
I worked with Mr. Smale as part of the IT Innovation Research team: ... John G. Smale, former Chairman and Chief Executive Officer for Procter & Gamble, passed...
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Windows Phones
I was briefly involved with a proposal for a Windows phone App that addressed retail analysis. So it is interesting to see it has now, in its first anniversary...
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The Delicacy of Anonymity Online
How services like Google Analytics make it hard to be anonymous online. Anonymity can be just a matter of choice, or even a life or death thing. Also some suggestions...
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Why is Angry Birds Compelling?
Understanding why a particular game like Angty Birds is so compelling. And how the aspects of the game might be repeated. " ... carefully scripted expansion...
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Modeling Businesses
Thinking this yet a step forward .... Concept mapping for company processes can be seen as a simplified approach to Business Process Management (BPM). Which seeks...
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Google and Microsoft Talk Artificial Intelligence
An optimistic view of the future of AI. It is nice to see two big players talking this. " ... Google and Microsoft don't share a stage often, being increasingly...
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Beauty Brands and Emotions
Former colleague Donna Sturgess, president of Buyology Inc. Talks about the the large emotional component of beauty brands. " ... Donna Sturgess, president...
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Shop - Scan - Buy
ShopSavvy brings instant scan and buy to mobile shoppers. This connects with my recent post about Amazon delivering a scan and price check application. Of course...
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Bezos
Fascinating interview with Jeff Bezos, CEO of Amazon. Their delivery this week of a budget tablet will create a new more focused channel for products. I have...
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Balanced Insight
Attended an excellent talk by Tom Hammergren, CEO of Balanced Insight as part of the local BI group here last night. See also their blog. Quite insightful...
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Organizations as Decision Factories
Thinking about organizations as decision factories. I like to think about decisions being made within processes as a way to understand how to improve the operation...
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Infographics Amok
In Adage: Seeing more infographics these days. Steve Rubel chimes in on their overuse. I think there is a further problem. They seem to be a reaction to...
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Tablets as Ecosystems
In E-Commerce Times: With multiple affordable tablet systems starting to emerge, it is suggested that each will enable specific ecosystems of usage and product...
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The Future of Work Spaces
As part of our innovation centers we examined a number of work space design approaches. We participated in several innovation workshops about working environments...
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Tesco Experiments with Augmented Reality
Constructing 3D catalogs using Augmented Reality. We saw some early experimentation by Tesco in China. Tesco has always been a technology innovative retailer...
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Why Can't SIRI talk to Watson?
Thoughtful GigaOm piece on AI. I spent years doing enterprise AI and what we did only worked when it was focused. We saw what IBM was doing at that time and it...
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Exascale Computing Looms
From the supercomputing conference. Thousand times improvement in a decade. " ... Government support, as well as new computing techniques, will be needed ....
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Network Patterns of Complexity
Stephen Few reviews Visual Complexity: Mapping Patterns of Information, by Manuel Lima. This book is about mapping networks of information. This has always been...
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P&G Sports a Mobile Game
P&G's Downy plans a mobile scavenger hunt. An example of brand oriented marketing gamificatition." ... Procter & Gamble fabric softener brand Downy will hold a...
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