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Is the Cloud Ready Yet?
From The Eponymous Pickle

Is the Cloud Ready Yet?

Hunter Richards asks for the opinion of accountants to see if they think that the cloud is ready yet.  Join in the survey and get the results.   With some interesting...

Cyber War Rules of Engagement
From The Eponymous Pickle

Cyber War Rules of Engagement

In the BBC:  On a proposal for a cyber war rules of engagement.  This deserves thinking about much more than it has been.   We now depend much on the Internet and...

Analytic Bridge on Facebook
From The Eponymous Pickle

Analytic Bridge on Facebook

The AnalyticBridge social network now has a presence on Facebook.  It has been a useful space to be part of.

Pitch for Semantic Web in the Enterprise
From The Eponymous Pickle

Pitch for Semantic Web in the Enterprise

A quick video pitch by Mark Montgomery of KYield for semantic technologies in the enterprise.  Heard about semantic technologies but did not know why you should...

Predictive Analytics at the Stanford/MIT Venture Lab
From The Eponymous Pickle

Predictive Analytics at the Stanford/MIT Venture Lab

This is an interesting upcoming session at the Stanford Venture lab on predictive analytics on February 15.  The speaker participants seem to be an interesting...

No Successor Signaled at P&G
From The Eponymous Pickle

No Successor Signaled at P&G

In Adage: Procter & Gamble's Reorganization Signals No CEO Successor Yet Decision Not to Replace Vice Chairman Steele Speaks Volumes Procter & Gamble Co.'s re-organization...

Searching With Privacy
From The Eponymous Pickle

Searching With Privacy

Need to protect what you are searching about?   Startingpage claims to keep your searches and IP address private.  To try it, click here.  Though most people don't...

Whorf on Language
From The Eponymous Pickle

Whorf on Language

The Whorfian hypothesis (Also called linguistic relativity) came up a number of times as we started to think of product descriptions in many languages.  Are translations...

Treadmill with a Browser
From The Eponymous Pickle

Treadmill with a Browser

Nice idea.   I have been doing more internet browsing on the equipment of late. Perhaps the speed of the interaction should be proportional to the speed of the...

Simulating Worst-Case Scenarios
From The Eponymous Pickle

Simulating Worst-Case Scenarios

From the work of Joshua M Epstein at Johns Hopkins.  We had connected with him on the topic of 'Generative Social Science', based on his  book of the same name. ...

Kraft Social Media
From The Eponymous Pickle

Kraft Social Media

Kraft ramps up social media in preparation for the Super Bowl.

Innovation in the West
From The Eponymous Pickle

Innovation in the West

Colleague Sammy Haroon reports on innovation and entrepreneurism in the West.

Linkedin Skills
From The Eponymous Pickle

Linkedin Skills

I have recently been helping a few people use Linkedin for the first time and have found it complicated to set up the right kind of adaptable presence I think they...

Winning in Two Worlds: Supply Chain Adaptability
From The Eponymous Pickle

Winning in Two Worlds: Supply Chain Adaptability

Very good piece in Wharton about supply chain adaptability:" ... Companies must create adaptable supply chains in a two-speed world that work for both slow- and...

US and World Surnames
From The Eponymous Pickle

US and World Surnames

In the National Geographic, an interactive map of the relative uses of surnames in the US.  This is a fun style infographic, but difficult to get specifics from...

Thingmagic and 100 Uses of RFID
From The Eponymous Pickle

Thingmagic and 100 Uses of RFID

I talked to Thingmagic about ten years ago, shortly after their creation from work started at MIT, when the enterprise took a close look at the uses of the 'internet...

Augmented Reality at the Big Game
From The Eponymous Pickle

Augmented Reality at the Big Game

Junaio and USA Today will be including an example of augmented reality at the Superbowl football game this weekend.  This should expose this idea to many people...

Procter & Gamble Innovation in Asia
From The Eponymous Pickle

Procter & Gamble Innovation in Asia

A very good HBR article on the topic.  Bruce Brown, P&G's CTO, talks about the challenges of the future for a global company.  A number of interesting specifics...

Replacements for the Newspaper
From The Eponymous Pickle

Replacements for the Newspaper

If you put text and pictures on a pad device is this a replacement for a newspaper?   The roll out of The Daily is an attempt at making this work. GigaOM discusses...

Who is in Charge of Analytics?
From The Eponymous Pickle

Who is in Charge of Analytics?

I have started to see corporate explorations of this topic.   In a number of experiments we started to build executive information systems (EIS) to try to change...
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