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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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Real Time Site Analytics
Google Analytics is adding real time tracking to its dashboards. This will be phased in over the coming days.
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Kimberly-Clark Logistics
A good example of how RFID can be used to make the supply chain more efficient through transparency: " ... The consumer goods manufacturer is using a solution that...
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Interdictive Analytics
Forrester's James Kobielus on what he is calling 'Interdictive Analytics'. Good thoughts. I had not heard the term before but it is form of predictive alerting...
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Social Analytics Transforming Retail Business Planning
Correspondent Armen Najarian at DemandTec posts an excellent piece: Four Ways Social Analytics will Transform Retail Business Planning. Read his list of four dimensions...
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Packaging and Consumer Choice
An interesting case study in Knowledge @ Wharton regarding packaging design at Heinz and how innovative packaging can be transformational in very common and 'old'...
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Tom Davenport Looks at MoneyBall
Information and analytics in Baseball and Industry. Games have always been a good way to think about business and how to apply technical methods. A good look...
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Agile Business Intelligence at Guess Inc
An intriguing case study of business intelligence at Guess. The concept of agility. Agile BI: Good but Not EnoughAt Guess Inc., BI Director Bruce Yen embraces...
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Accidental Creative
Todd Henry of Accidental Creative on Realism, Ambition and Hypocracy. See his excellent book: The Accidental Creative.
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Google Wallet
An overview of the recent Google Wallet rollout. It is still early, but we will start to see more phone based payment systems. The future will be a collection...
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Bob Herbold's New Book and Blog
I have noted this before, but my boss at Procter & Gamble, Bob Herbold, was our SVP and later spent seven years as the Chief Operating Officer at Microsoft. He...
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Data Mining Health Problems
As we gather more data about health conditions, it is natural to look at the relationship over time between these sensory readings and conditions. And also the...
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Smartphone Based Brain Scanning
Another interesting sensory application: " A team of researchers from the Technical University of Denmark (DTU) have developed a portable EEG system powered byEmotive...
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Tablets Likely to Come Out After Dark
New statistics reported on tablet use. I would agree, I often use tablets as a 'second screen' as an auxiliary information device for TV or Radio. Can that fact...
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Innovation by Embracing Failure
In the WSJ: A friend sends me a good article on how companies are addressing risk aversion in edgy economic times. Includes mention of outright rewards for disclosed...
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Text Analytics for Legacy BI
Always interesting Doug Lautzenheiser discusses in his business intelligence blog the use of text analytics techniques to search code libraries in enterprises for...
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Hotels Becoming More Social
As frequent travelers we participated in brainstorming sessions for several large hotel chains five years ago. We leveraged our expertise in in-context innovation...
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How Will Gaming and Advertising Overlap?
A response by two young CEOs in FastCompany. It has become a point of contention recently. My answer: In a way that they will produce value for companies.
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Interdisciplinary Computing
Lisa C. Kaczmarczyk writes the Interdisciplinary computing blog. I have mentioned this effort before, but have just revisited it before meeting with her. The...
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My Apps Floweth Over
I have noticed it happen. Every possible publication, newsletter, alert, actual application, search notification, political group, neighborhood group, conference...
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