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Wal-Mart Online Stratagy
From The Eponymous Pickle

Wal-Mart Online Stratagy

Just who is Wal-Mart's future competition?  Business model?  Evan Schuman examines the evidence." ... When you watch Walmart, you start to wonder where it wants...

Augmented Reality Keyboard
From The Eponymous Pickle

Augmented Reality Keyboard

Projected keyboard.  Had seen a similar thing done, showing a keyboard projected on someone's hand.  This appears to be more artistically done.    Works best if...

Looking at Workplace Automation
From The Eponymous Pickle

Looking at Workplace Automation

A topic covered here for some time.  We mean to augment and scale expertise in the form of tasks and jobs.   How and why does that occur, and can we predict when...

Automating Big Data Analysis
From The Eponymous Pickle

Automating Big Data Analysis

In the MIT News. update on their work in this area.  The Data Science Machine.  (Paper)   General scope is impressive.Automating big-data analysisSystem that replaces...

IBM Watson Community using Gamification
From The Eponymous Pickle

IBM Watson Community using Gamification

Continue to be impressed by the progress of Watson Analytics.  Here is their community, for both personal and business applications.  Lots you can experience and...

Forgetting Organizations
From The Eponymous Pickle

Forgetting Organizations

An executive once told us as we sought to create expert systems: " ... You don't want to record and save my expertise, you want to forget it to make room for new...

Building Customer Loyalty
From The Eponymous Pickle

Building Customer Loyalty

Colleague Damon Ragusa writes:" ... Loyalty is a Behavior. So Start Measuring It Like a Behavior. Customer Loyalty (much like its first cousin, brand equity) is...

Journey Mapping for Digital
From The Eponymous Pickle

Journey Mapping for Digital

This made me think.  Could there be a way to map the enterprise, and the customers, and concentrate on their intersection?    Might even be interesting to stubKnowledge...

Data Blindness
From The Eponymous Pickle

Data Blindness

Good thoughts, in fact even worse, people make a point of ignoring the data.  In part because the don't understand it ....Data Blindness: Why We See Data And Don...

Robot Building IKEA Furniture
From The Eponymous Pickle

Robot Building IKEA Furniture

A robot takes on a very small part of assembling a piece of IKEA furniture, comparing the task to the same human interaction.   There is still much work to be done...

Anonymity Networks
From The Eponymous Pickle

Anonymity Networks

Of consideration, could data be driven through systems like this?Tor Just Launched the Easiest App Yet for Anonymous, Encrypted IM THE ANONYMITY NETWORK Tor has...

Investment on AI in Silicon Valley
From The Eponymous Pickle

Investment on AI in Silicon Valley

Was part of the last surge.  Now it is reported that much new is underway, and specifically in Silicon Valley.   In the WSJ:  "   ... The latest example of the...

Recognizing Good Network Design
From The Eponymous Pickle

Recognizing Good Network Design

In the Cisco Blog:  Not supply chain networks, which I thought at first, but computer networks.  Not usually my world, but had some interesting design ideas.  I...

Times VR App Launches
From The Eponymous Pickle

Times VR App Launches

Will this increase the exposure to VR enough to engage the general public?   In Engadget:" ... At a time when virtual reality is changing the way we experience...

Alan Kay Talk on Future of Technology
From The Eponymous Pickle

Alan Kay Talk on Future of Technology

Alan Kay was an early inspiration to us.  Here an overview and link to video:Computer Pioneer Alan Kay Says Tech Industry Ignores The FutureAlan Kay is a computer...

Designing Assistant Technology
From The Eponymous Pickle

Designing Assistant Technology

Today's CSIG Talk: Roberto Manduchi  from the University of California, Santa Cruz , who presented “Designing Assistive Technology: A Personal Experience of Trial...

Evolutionary Computation for Creativity
From The Eponymous Pickle

Evolutionary Computation for Creativity

Nicely done interview regarding  evolutionary and genetic methods in O'Reilly.   This was an area we explored in the enterprise, but to my knowledge never used"...

Building Blocks for the Digital Enterprise
From The Eponymous Pickle

Building Blocks for the Digital Enterprise

In McKinsey: Six building blocks for creating a high-performing digital enterpriseDigitization affects almost everything in today's organizations, which makes capturing...

Classrooms Broken, so they Need VR
From The Eponymous Pickle

Classrooms Broken, so they Need VR

Business Insider and Video:Oculus founder Palmer Luckey thinks that the company's virtual reality headset will eventually make its way into schools, allowing students...

Monetizing a Loyalty Program
From The Eponymous Pickle

Monetizing a Loyalty Program

Have ridden loyalty programs from the very beginning. With free turkeys at Christmas to getting paid points for just entering the store.  What is that data worth...
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