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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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CGT Picks ThinkVine
I have mentioned Thinkvine here a number of times, and have met with their management. Now they are among the Consumer Goods Technology Editors Picks.ThinkVine-...
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More CPG Activity in e-Commerce
Large CPG has always had a reluctance to interfere with their very profitable existing channels by setting up their own e-commerce stores, lest brick-and-mortar...
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Ehrenberg-Bass Institute
We have been sponsor company members of the Ehrenberg-Bass Institute at the University of South Australia for a number of years. Professor Byron Sharp and hismore...
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Why not Just Fill in the Blanks
In the NYT, like a flat tax, great direction, but not for tax preparers: ' ... It
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Intelligence of Analytics
Short post and podcast in E-Commerce Times on developments that are improving analytics. Covering some of the dilemma today of having more data, yet there seems...
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Are you a Linchpin or a Cog in the Machine?
Always interested in what makes innovative organizations work. Josh Bernoff of Forrester in the GroundSwell blog reviews and outlines Seth Godin's new book, forthcoming...
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Fundamental Barriers to Sales
Dave Knox does an excellent job talking about the fundamentals to sales success. We dealt with it every day in the enterprise, he makes a good point about the inherent...
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Military Social Networking
In Gigaom, an article on MilBook a Facebook style social networking site for the US military, launched this past October. Should be some learning here, especially...
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Are Apps the Best Model?
Recently had a conversation with a colleague about writing an App for the IPhone for a supply chain problem. We were struck by the fact that it would have to be...
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Multiple Media Strategies in Retail
Good article in StoreFrontBacktalk. Read the whole thing, allows you to nicely think about these multiple strategies. ' ... The mobile retail world has now neatly...
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Pervasive Business Intelligence
How pervasive is Business Intelligence (BI)? I pushed it for a dozen years in the enterprise. It took a big uptick with the pervasiveness of the Web. Much lip service...
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Social Networking Privacy
E-Commerce Times has a good article on the dangers of exposing your personal information through social networking sites. There are obvious dangers and a number...
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Earthquake Data Visualized
Using Tableau dashboards: 'The Pan American Health Organization published an interactive dashboard showing the location of last week
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Printing Food
In-store food manufacture has been mentioned here a number of times. Here is another related research example, the MIT Cornucopia Food Printer Project, recently...
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Making a Heatmap
A good piece on constructing your own Heatmap in Flowingdata. Heatmaps are a way to visualize and quickly scan the values and fixed time relationships of many variables...
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John Nash Documentary
Always interesting Mind Hacks points to a recording of the PBS documentary on game theorist John Nash. Much more informative than the Hollywoodized Beautiful...
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Pepsico Optimizes Trade Promotions
In Consumer Goods Technology: Integrated with the back office, CAS 8 is expected to provide a comprehensive view of account and channel performance...
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Lessons from a Happiness Machine
An article about Coke's new Happiness Machine viral video made me think further about the dynamics of engaging shoppers in the store. Its the vending machine whimsically...
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HP's Wall of Touch
Another example of 'walls' of information, which we experimented with extensively. Think of it as also useful for creating certain '2D environments' like the store...
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