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KPMG on Intelligent Automation
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KPMG on Intelligent Automation

Good thoughts here,  note mention of RPA, specific aspects of operations.  You should always learn much about your operational processes from any such effort.  Ready...

Blockchain and Proof of Work Efficiency
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Blockchain and Proof of Work Efficiency

Ultimately efficient and secure architecture is key for block chain systems.Bitcoin's Proof-of-Work Can Be Made More Efficient, IBM Research Claims  in CoinDesk...

Technology in Grocery
From The Eponymous Pickle

Technology in Grocery

Like the loo at more mundane seeming aspects of grocery operations.How 5 Top Grocers are Modernizing through Automation and RoboticsBy Randy Hofbauer - 08/24/2018...

Leadership Style and Getting People to Share
From The Eponymous Pickle

Leadership Style and Getting People to Share

Is leadership stifling innovation and problem solving?   And a solution.How Your Leadership Style Could Be Stifling Innovation and Problem Solving at Your Company...

Fuzzy Algorithms for Selection
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Fuzzy Algorithms for Selection

Interesting, especially with regard to fuzzy methods of classification ... Looking to see the details on this.   A way to produce a selection classification alternative...

Digiday:  Bad Retail is Dead
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Digiday: Bad Retail is Dead

Retail Briefing: ‘Bad retail is dead’Retailers are facing a turning point: Sharpen up your data chops, or drop out.As customers command more influence in retailers...

Implications of Multiple Screens
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Implications of Multiple Screens

This is not often talked, but it is important.   New kinds of channels to take advantage of this?In Think With GoogleIn 2016, 85% of U.S. internet users surfed ...

Colgate Rolls Virtual Reality in Plant and Office
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Colgate Rolls Virtual Reality in Plant and Office

Note the mention of manufacturing/maintenance use as well as uses for back office.  Impressive rollout for multiple areas.RealWare Rolls Out AR Wearables At Colgate...

Extended Google Smart Home Ecosystem
From The Eponymous Pickle

Extended Google Smart Home Ecosystem

Just today I extended out smart home ecosystem, which uses both Google and Amazon, to another room.  My interest is always in ease of installation, use,  extension...

Who You Need  in Your Network
From The Eponymous Pickle

Who You Need in Your Network

I like the idea, but it does depend very much who they are and what they are willing to contribute.  Even the case with actual boards of directors.   Also, keep...

An Internet of Goods
From The Eponymous Pickle

An Internet of Goods

From the Supply Chain Digest:Supply Chain News: Here Comes the Internet of Goods MAPI Research Report Predicts Major Manufacturing Transformation - to the Benefit...

Maintenance via Sound Analysis
From The Eponymous Pickle

Maintenance via Sound Analysis

Not a new thing,  but useful as it could be used to augment human capabilities.  This had been suggested previously using neural, machine learning methods.Sound...

Tracking Plastics Use without Batteries
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Tracking Plastics Use without Batteries

We looked at the problem of how pharmaceuticals were being used.   This would have solved one of the problems we examined.3D-printed plastic objects can track their...

GE Lighting, Google Home and Smart Homes
From The Eponymous Pickle

GE Lighting, Google Home and Smart Homes

Lighting is the most obvious, simplest and obvious application in the smart home.  So this partnership could make for some real  infrastructure wins for Google,...

On Decision Responsibility
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On Decision Responsibility

Yes, but also how decision links to further process and measured goals.Articulation of Decision Responsibility    By Robin Hill in ACMRemember the days when record...

Amazon Going Traditional Retail
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Amazon Going Traditional Retail

Via Andreessen Horowitz by sonala16zAmazon: Retailers Gonna RetailThe narrative of Amazon’s total disruption of traditional retail and ultimate dominance is well...

Mars is Going Digital
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Mars is Going Digital

 Traditional candy company Mars moves Digital. Well put and in particular that it is about business process, Are we looking at the right problem?  Bot just wild...

Machinify to Monetize Data, Automate AI
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Machinify to Monetize Data, Automate AI

First I heard of this, on the surface of it quite a useful claim, and starts from a data-based goal.    Where will it work?  Probably only in certain problem domains...

NASA and Other Users of Hololens
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NASA and Other Users of Hololens

Handsfree with reference to documentation and process.    Similar to our experiments.NASA is using HoloLens AR headsets to build its new spacecraft fasterLockheed...

Using Email
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Using Email

Have read many of these kinds of email use hints, this one notes the need to understand the received tone, good point.  While some now believe that Email is over...
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