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New Blogger Interface
From The Eponymous Pickle

New Blogger Interface

This is now live.  Have not tried it yet, but plan to.   Need a reworking of my blog format and capabilities.

Grow from Within
From The Eponymous Pickle

Grow from Within

Grow from Within: Mastering Corporate Entrepreneurship and Innovation by Robert Wolcott and Michael Lippitz. Now on my stack of things to read.  Recently heard...

Using R for Big Data
From The Eponymous Pickle

Using R for Big Data

Some excellent examples of the use of the Statistical/visualization/data mining language R for a number of real applications.  Have started to use it more myself...

Analytics for Neuromarketing
From The Eponymous Pickle

Analytics for Neuromarketing

In Mediapost: More must be more done to quantify how neuromarketing results are used.  What are useful metrics?

Brandwashed Videos
From The Eponymous Pickle

Brandwashed Videos

A couple of videos sent to me that illustrate the topics in Martin Lindstrom's forthcoming book: Brandwashed: Tricks Companies Use to Manipulate Our Minds and Persuade...

Fundamentals of Information Management
From The Eponymous Pickle

Fundamentals of Information Management

Thoughtful piece, a great place to start thinking about why you should manage information at all:The Path to Information Management NirvanaSimilar to Maslow

Peer Index Marketing
From The Eponymous Pickle

Peer Index Marketing

In GigaOM.  "Marketers have long believed that some customers have a disproportionate influence on others when it comes to purchase decisions, and they have tried...

Very Tiny GPS Receivers
From The Eponymous Pickle

Very Tiny GPS Receivers

An intriguing short post on how location tracking devices based on GPS are getting very small.   Another example of the flexibility of small sensors.  Medical and...

Rise of Electronic Medicine
From The Eponymous Pickle

Rise of Electronic Medicine

The rise of electronic medicine.   Medicine today is a sea of paper and fax machines, privacy barriers, and unconnected data. The public is ready for a better system...

Packaging that Glows
From The Eponymous Pickle

Packaging that Glows

For a potential project I re-examined packaging work that we had looked at for shelf improving engagement.  The use of electroluminescence. See a set of DuPont. ...

Eyeborg
From The Eponymous Pickle

Eyeborg

Document to eye, a documentary video.   The future of an eye prosthetic?

Package Goods Volume  Decreases
From The Eponymous Pickle

Package Goods Volume Decreases

In AdAge: Price hikes and decreasing volume. Further opening the door to more private label offerings.

Speeding up Material Design
From The Eponymous Pickle

Speeding up Material Design

We spent considerable time and effort in doing packaging and product design via computer.  How do you understand how a package effects all parts of the supplyIn...

Braun Design
From The Eponymous Pickle

Braun Design

I got to visit the Braun company a few times after they were acquired indirectly by our enterprise and observe one of their design competitions.  Now here ten principles...

Kroger and the Advantage Checkout
From The Eponymous Pickle

Kroger and the Advantage Checkout

Tom Demeropolis Checks out the Advantage Tunnel Checkout system at Kroger.   Also here is a video of the Fujitsu  / Kroger Advantage system in action.   Moretechnical...

IBM Services Innovation Lab
From The Eponymous Pickle

IBM Services Innovation Lab

Services vs Hardware are increasingly important to IBM: IBM announced the creation of the Services Innovation Lab (SIL), a new global lab that will initially...

Measuring the Emotional Consumer
From The Eponymous Pickle

Measuring the Emotional Consumer

An insightful interview.  I believe there is much to be learned from the non-consious consumer.  I still do not believe we know as much as we think we do about...

Defined Hours of Work
From The Eponymous Pickle

Defined Hours of Work

Now that I consulting after retirement (contact me for more information, column on the left)  I am better understanding the issue of defined hours of work muchIn...

New Complexity Science Blog
From The Eponymous Pickle

New Complexity Science Blog

A new blog by Melanie Mitchell via the Santa Fe Institute that overs progress in the complexity sciences.  Looks good so far.  " ... The blog, whose full title...

Sony Personal 3D Headset
From The Eponymous Pickle

Sony Personal 3D Headset

Actively discussed at an innovation lunch today.  The personal headset, now being presented by Sony.   Many potential collaboration and interaction applications...
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