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Big Insight must Drive Big Data
From The Eponymous Pickle

Big Insight must Drive Big Data

In CIO-Today: Would not add the Big prefix, but all data analytics must link to some insight into business process,    Pointer to a Forrester report I have not"...

Visualization Beyond the Desktop
From The Eponymous Pickle

Visualization Beyond the Desktop

In February IEEE Computing Now:Visualization beyond the Desktop--the Next Big ThingToday, people interact with visual depictions through a mouse. Tomorrow, they'll...

Good Enough Computing
From The Eponymous Pickle

Good Enough Computing

In the CACM:  Thoughtful piece on 'Good enough' computing.    Many think of computers as being very accurate entities.  Based on the inevitability of 0 or 1.  Delta...

Tribeca Disruptive  Innovation Awards
From The Eponymous Pickle

Tribeca Disruptive Innovation Awards

Colleague Louis Killeffer reports on the" .... 6th Annual Tribeca Disruptive Innovation Awards. As in every preceding year, the scope and scale of this year’s honorees...

Looking further back at Origins of AI
From The Eponymous Pickle

Looking further back at Origins of AI

In the CACM:  Looking yet further back at the history of AI.  My father worked on the Norden at Sperry in WWII.  I particularly note some of the connections between...

Measurement and Models
From The Eponymous Pickle

Measurement and Models

Just now In the Edge:   Popper Versus BaconA Conversation With Peter Coveney  intro by John BrockmanPeople have to go around measuring things. There's no escape...

Advanced  Holograms
From The Eponymous Pickle

Advanced Holograms

In CWorld:   The advance mentioned below is important:  ... Holograms have been part of the business and science community's toolset for some time but Microsoft...

Measuring Relatedness of Knowledge Graphs
From The Eponymous Pickle

Measuring Relatedness of Knowledge Graphs

Interesting and technical talk on how research labs are using Map-Reduce to examine the closeness of terms in text.   Looks at the efficiency of doing this for"...

General Morphological Analysis for the Wicked
From The Eponymous Pickle

General Morphological Analysis for the Wicked

Just received, points to excellent resources and examples of morphological, or 'structural' analysis. This should see much more application,  consider applying ...

Internet of Things to Surge Productivity
From The Eponymous Pickle

Internet of Things to Surge Productivity

Had not thought of the connection directly, but a reasonable idea, and information technology has done that. Efficiency, and disrupting innovation?    An economist's...

Deep Learning with Structure and Interpretation
From The Eponymous Pickle

Deep Learning with Structure and Interpretation

A dozen years ago we were using neural nets to capture aspects of consumer behavior and interpret the results to apply to marketing decisions.  Not what is today...

Old Brands Surprising Consumers
From The Eponymous Pickle

Old Brands Surprising Consumers

In K@W:   A number of companies I know need more of this.New Tricks: How Old Brands Can Still Surprise ConsumersTo reinvigorate iconic brands, companies must figure...

Essentials of Innovation
From The Eponymous Pickle

Essentials of Innovation

In McKinsey:The eight essentials of innovation ...Strategic and organizational factors are what separate successful big-company innovators from the rest of the...

Intersection of AI and Blockchain
From The Eponymous Pickle

Intersection of AI and Blockchain

Blockchain has come up in a number of conversations. In O'Reilly, interesting piece about how it interacts with AI.

Seed Strategy
From The Eponymous Pickle

Seed Strategy

Seed Strategy has merged with Burke" .. Seed Strategy grows big ideas for brands around the globe. Our clients can expect smart strategic thinking, head-turning...

Sustainability Through Service
From The Eponymous Pickle

Sustainability Through Service

Today's Service Sciences Talk.ISSIP SIG Education & Research is Prof. Adi Wolfson, Green Processes Center, Shamoon College of Engineering, Beer-Sheva, Israel.Title...

Watson Discovers Knowledge in TED Talks
From The Eponymous Pickle

Watson Discovers Knowledge in TED Talks

Interesting knowledge management technique using Watson.  Any company, or for that matter knowledge developing entity, has this need.  How practical this might"...

Signals and Noise in Observation
From The Eponymous Pickle

Signals and Noise in Observation

On signals and noise and observation, in Nicholas Carr's blog Roughtype:" ... From Nassim Nicholas Taleb’s  ... book Antifragile: Things that Gain from Disorder...

More Business Intelligence Automation
From The Eponymous Pickle

More Business Intelligence Automation

In CWorld: Mentions the integration of business intelligence and voice interaction with an operating system.  We could all use a personal assistant with business...

Make Yourself Unforgettable
From The Eponymous Pickle

Make Yourself Unforgettable

Thinking back on many years in a big company I can remember only a small handful of unforgettable meetings and presentations.    Best for or the right reason, of...
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