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Institute of Human and Machine Cognition
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Institute of Human and Machine Cognition

I was just reminded of the IHMC.  Who we worked with for several years experimenting with the capture of internal and customer knowledge.  " ... Florida Institute...

Losing the Journal
From The Eponymous Pickle

Losing the Journal

One of my earliest analytics tasks was to look at the effect of alternative magazine article ads.  So this was sad to see:  " ...  Sad Ending to the Ladies' Home...

Delivering TV over the Internet
From The Eponymous Pickle

Delivering TV over the Internet

In Adage: " .... In the race to deliver TV over the Internet, Charlie Ergen's Dish Network Corp. is pulling ahead. And that may have implications for marketersWith...

Building Long Lasting Authority
From The Eponymous Pickle

Building Long Lasting Authority

Very useful short piece.  Is often brought up as key achievement: 5 Ways to Build Long-Lasting Authorityby  John  Jantsch

Google Search Visual History
From The Eponymous Pickle

Google Search Visual History

In Engadget:  A mostly visual view of changes in Google search.  A reminder of how the search giant has involved from Google?  to a common verb.  Also an indicator...

Selection of R Books and Resources
From The Eponymous Pickle

Selection of R Books and Resources

A good review of R books and online resources, several of which I have taken a look at.  As usual these days, you don't have to buy a book to get quality information...

Microsoft Acquires Nokia
From The Eponymous Pickle

Microsoft Acquires Nokia

Microsoft completes $7.2B acquisition of NokiaAs expected, sets up 'Microsoft Mobile' subsidiary based in Finland ...

Mobile Payments Future
From The Eponymous Pickle

Mobile Payments Future

Are mobile payments finally ready to take off?   In Bain, a survey. " ... We think that’s about to change, given an unprecedented rise in the momentum among consumers...

Data Manipulation Tricks in R
From The Eponymous Pickle

Data Manipulation Tricks in R

Often the most difficult things to do in a new language is manipulating data in a fairly straight forward manner.   Then you can build upward from a set of simple...

On Dealing with Bad News
From The Eponymous Pickle

On Dealing with Bad News

Former P&G CIO and MS Exec Bob Herbold writes about how to deal with bad news.  In particular to be sure it is reported on and dealt with.    " ... The recent sequence...

Improving Application Support and Maintenance
From The Eponymous Pickle

Improving Application Support and Maintenance

In CIO:  A good overview on the topic, often done haphazardly.  " ... It is hardly surprising—given the overriding emphasis on creating new apps, supporting existing...

Amazon App for Sellers
From The Eponymous Pickle

Amazon App for Sellers

Have been involved in selling on Amazon for some time ....  So understand the implications .... Automates a number of things sellers often do manually, considerable...

Open Power Foundation Announcements
From The Eponymous Pickle

Open Power Foundation Announcements

Attended a set of presentations and announcements on the Open Power Foundation yesterday. Sponsored by IBM and included a number of other corporate participants...

Why Innovation Fails
From The Eponymous Pickle

Why Innovation Fails

In Innovation Excellence:  Unfortunately it does.   Fairly frequently too.  The number kicked around for band innovation true success is often 10%.  So we have...

The Organization:  Scarcest Resource
From The Eponymous Pickle

The Organization: Scarcest Resource

Via Bain and Company, from the HBR:   Meetings, thinking time, useful connections, human resources.   In general we make poor use of them and many new things are...

Marketing Vocabulary
From The Eponymous Pickle

Marketing Vocabulary

Fascinating piece on ClickZ: Truth and vocabulary and the meaning for understanding the consumer.   A lot of truth is embedded here about measurement and the resulting...

WalMart to Go Concept
From The Eponymous Pickle

WalMart to Go Concept

Wal-Mart's To Go concept.  Opens a new kind of consumer behavior to them.  And new data. Consider the implications, and the analytics.

Using Google Maps for History
From The Eponymous Pickle

Using Google Maps for History

We had thought of using time serial maps for history, now I see that Google maps plans to do something similar.  Can we ultimately do this generally for the earth...

Big Data Marketing
From The Eponymous Pickle

Big Data Marketing

Late on this, but useful thoughts:  "  .. This holiday season will likely bring another rise in cost-per-click prices. However, marketers shouldn't forget their...

Customer Experience in Retail
From The Eponymous Pickle

Customer Experience in Retail

In Retailwire: Who owns the customer experience in retail?   " ... Should the emerging CXO role — chief customer experiencer — own the customer experience in retail...
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