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Whole Foods Builds New ERP System
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Whole Foods Builds New ERP System

Whole Foods to Build New ERP System for ‘Single View’ of Product Data By Steven Norton in the WSJ Blog. The move is part of a broader effort by the grocery chain...

Domain Scoping for Subject Matter Experts
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Domain Scoping for Subject Matter Experts

The capture, sharing and augmentation of expertise is a key topic for Cognitive.   How do we do it well?  By first understanding and then leveraging the language...

Broad Survey of Augmented Data Science
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Broad Survey of Augmented Data Science

Seeing more of this.   Just saw Watson's newest.  I have mentioned before, we did lots of adaptive script development to do this long ago, so the idea is not new...

SAP Does Analytics Cloud
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SAP Does Analytics Cloud

It seems to be the week for new analytics offerings.   A Software as a Service offering.  Implications of some embedded intelligence, which makes sense since SAP...

Deception in a Data Driven World
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Deception in a Data Driven World

Lots in the news recently about storytelling with data.  Which led me to memories of stories that did not match the actual reality of the data. So a good storyIn...

Watson Analytics Free Edition
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Watson Analytics Free Edition

Register here to get access to the free edition of Watson Analytics.#analyticsforall

Thinking an Architecture of Advice
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Thinking an Architecture of Advice

Working thoughts:  There should be a compendium of 'Questions to ask first'!   For all sorts of contexts.  Is it the same as an FAQ?   Not exactly.  But is it enough...

Digital Shopping
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Digital Shopping

Is digital grocery shopping hitting critical mass? Nearly half of global consumers surveyed by Nielsen say they are ready and willing to grocery shop online, and...

Neuromorphic Chips
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Neuromorphic Chips

In Wired: 48 million neurons mimic the brain of a small rodent.  Increasingly we are looking at how to directly model the biological.   Is it better to mimic biological...

Amazon Launches IOT Platform Beta
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Amazon Launches IOT Platform Beta

Am a subscriber to AWS, will examine.   In Infoq:' .... At Amazon’s recent re:Invent developer conference in Las Vegas, the company announced a new Internet ofDr...

Watson Analytics Livestream Tomorrow
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Watson Analytics Livestream Tomorrow

Tomorrow, major announcements on Watson Analytics,  A move towards automating data science. Examples in a number of domains.    I am attending as an invited analyst...

Data Scientists Telling Stories
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Data Scientists Telling Stories

I partially agree.  But there is an implication that they are telling the story they want you to get from the data.  I have seen a number of examples where theThe...

Improved Ad Measurement
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Improved Ad Measurement

Measurement is my favorite topic.  If you can't do it well, any amount of analytics or 'Bigger' data will not help.   In Adage: Content Budgets Rise as Measurement...

Dashboards that Persuade
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Dashboards that Persuade

Whitepaper by Tableau Software.  Well done.  Registration information required.   " .... Do your dashboards tell the story you want to get across or does your data...

Appeal to HoloLens Developers
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Appeal to HoloLens Developers

Thinking possible applications.  See previous writings in the tags below.Get the Microsoft HoloLens Development Edition.Help develop the future. The first Microsoft...

Sensor Data from Device to Cloud
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Sensor Data from Device to Cloud

In ReadwriteWeb:   Deserves better understanding and careful choices.  " ... The evolution of accessible radio standards over the last 25 years has led to a plethora...

Business HR Simplification
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Business HR Simplification

On  simplifying HR in Knowledge@Wharton:Human resources departments manage a company’s most precious resource — employees — and yet many still use outdated systems...

Unilever Organizing Marketing Team
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Unilever Organizing Marketing Team

Sharing and spreading expertise.  An opportunity to gameify?  Contains enough people to perform an internal crowd sourcing.   Process linked to knowledge sharing...

Benchmark Intelligence
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Benchmark Intelligence

Brought to my attention by the Brandery.  Benchmark Intelligence. " ... The New way to Manage a Chain ... Operational Business Intelligence for Restaurant Chains...

AI Software is Smart Enough for SAT but ...
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AI Software is Smart Enough for SAT but ...

In the NYTimes.  Impressive these approaches have become,  especially in narrow applications.  But still not intelligent in a broad sense.   Temper your expectations...
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