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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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Smells Like in a Billion Bucks
In Fast Company. A teaser of an insider's look into Procter and what it takes to be a billion dollar brand. Check out the bizarre Old Spice site, it's not your...
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Mindsets and Models and Risk
From Knowledge@Wharton: Re-thinking Risk Management: Why the Mindset Matters More Than the Model. Good piece on how to think about new architectures of risk."...
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Dan Ariely on Buggy Moral Code
Dan Ariely author of Predictably Irrational in a Februry TED video talk on Why we think it's OK to cheat and steal (sometimes). He covers some of this same example...
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Shortcomings of the Pie Chart
In Seedmagazine: Understanding the shortcomings of the pie chart can help us make sense of and improve the emerging scientific aesthetic of the 21st century?...
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Innovating in Emergent Markets
Tata and Unilever in emerging marketings, from Andrea Meyers' Working Knowledge. " ... How you get a product to market may be as important as what you get to market...
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P&G's Recent Social Media Efforts
P&G's Dave Knox posts about their recent Tide 'Loads of Hope' Social media effort: "... it looks like some have thought we were
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Death of Consumer Segmentation?
Insightful piece. Though really more about rethinking the idea of consumer segmentation and how it plays out in consumer decision-making. Makes the point that...
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Netezza and Mapinfo
Used the package Mapinfo several times in the enterprise. Including the construction of front ends for optimization packages for the supply chain. The world of...
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Ear Sound Biometrics
Positive identification by ear sound biometics. Had heard of this proposed in 2007 when it was first funded and now it has made some progress.
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More on Hand-Scanning Groceries
Another piece on the Scan It! system from Modiv Media. Article is interesting because it discusses actual shopper reactions to the in-aisle scanning idea. It...
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Pharmaceutical Compliance
Compliance in pharma is about determining if people take their medications according to schedule. Efforts like the 'smart' medicine cabinet have been demonstrated...
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Unilever and Logistics
Good overview of what Unilever is doing in logistics, in Consumer Goods Technology. Nothing very surpirsing here, covers their work with BravoSolution. " ... The...
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Collaboration Curves
Interesting piece that looks at the implications of collaboration. In the enterprise this is an increasing issue, especially when people are only distantly connected...
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Paper Uses 2D Barcode
New use of 2-D Barcodes in newspapers. A good idea. Newspapers have included URLs for a long time now, though I have also seen a reluctance to provide them this...
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Nearly One Billion Apps Sold
Apple has 'sold' nearly a billion IPhone applications. Impressive, though many were for free..
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Schnucks Deli Kiosks
I have at times said some experienced-based critical things about store kiosks. Here though is an excellent example of their use. Schnucks is installing some....
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Flavored Ads and Fictional Inspiration
I am always looking for new sensory engagements with consumers. In the Economist: Trading Licks. Word of a researcher inspired by Willy Wonka's flavored wallpaper...
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What Unilever Learned about Social Media
An interesting AdfAge piece from Unilever's CMO about what they have learned about social media: " ... Unilever is only starting to understand social media, but...
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