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A Smart Business Notebook Network
From The Eponymous Pickle

A Smart Business Notebook Network

In FastCompany:  As a long time user of Evernote, this was interesting. Pointing towards the Moleskin physical notebook.  So not paperless.  Had been unaware of...

Negative Questions Managers Should Ask
From The Eponymous Pickle

Negative Questions Managers Should Ask

In the HBR Blog (Registration required):   The kind of questions that a good manager should ask, and most do.  Still it is one of those things that is worth repeating...

Experfy Big Data Consulting
From The Eponymous Pickle

Experfy Big Data Consulting

Received a note from Harvard Innovation Lab.   Regarding Experfy, which was new to me.   Interesting, taking a closer look.Big Data Consulting Marketplace in Harvard...

Intro to Unstructured Data
From The Eponymous Pickle

Intro to Unstructured Data

Good short piece on the increasingly important topic, by Radhika Subramanian.   The article also points to a free eBook on the topic.  Have not looked at that yet...

Analytic Methods and Massive Data
From The Eponymous Pickle

Analytic Methods and Massive Data

What are the limitations of analytic methods against increasingly massive amounts of data?  A Linkedin Discussion of interest. 

HR Strategy. Hiring Specialties or Growing Them?
From The Eponymous Pickle

HR Strategy. Hiring Specialties or Growing Them?

In CWorld.    Self serving yes, but an alternate strategy for lack of specific IT skills.  Instead of hiring college trained people, probably younger people.  Hire...

On Metadata Introduction
From The Eponymous Pickle

On Metadata Introduction

Been examining the state of metadata, here is a book with good background, if not completely up to date.  Mostly document oriented.   A good example where on line...

Police Robotics
From The Eponymous Pickle

Police Robotics

In Time: With video.  An old idea, but here apparently a commercial available system.   I always ask, how are these different from a remote movable camera?  How...

Capturing Ambient Intelligence
From The Eponymous Pickle

Capturing Ambient Intelligence

In CWorld:   Related to other work recently posted on.   Had not heard the term 'ambient intelligence' used before, but it fits.   An interesting step by Microsoft...

Deep Learning Innovation from Mobile Sensors
From The Eponymous Pickle

Deep Learning Innovation from Mobile Sensors

Out of Research at Purdue:   Interative contextual learning and reasoning is a powerful concept that will radically change how we use computing.  It will bring"...

Data Culture and Business Sphere Focus
From The Eponymous Pickle

Data Culture and Business Sphere Focus

In Ars Technica:  The idea of a 'data culture' is something that Microsoft is promoting heavily.  " ... Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella was in San Francisco today to...

Using Mind Maps to Support Exit Interviews
From The Eponymous Pickle

Using Mind Maps to Support Exit Interviews

We suggested this, but it was never widely utilized.  In Biggerplate.  A good case study of the idea. The question that always came up: Does the additional complexity...

On the Value of Social Data: Gnip Acquisition
From The Eponymous Pickle

On the Value of Social Data: Gnip Acquisition

In AdAge:  "  In Gnip Buy, Twitter Grabs Control of Key Data Middleman ...The Acquisition is Yet Another Indicator of the Value Corporations and Investors See in...

P&G Singapore Innovation Center
From The Eponymous Pickle

P&G Singapore Innovation Center

More on P&G's Singapore innovation center.  Including lots of images and descriptions of what goes on there.  Nicely done piece from P&G itself.  " ... Get a First...

The Loom, Robots, Innovation and Jobs
From The Eponymous Pickle

The Loom, Robots, Innovation and Jobs

In the WaPo: The Loom and Innovation.  Anyone who has followed the history of computing knows the connection between the mechanical loom and computing in general...

Kroger Digitizing Stores
From The Eponymous Pickle

Kroger Digitizing Stores

In Retailing Today. On how Kroger is digitizing retail.  Retail is the ideal industry to make this happen.  It operates an internet of things that closely integrate...

A Dream Tunnel Sequence from a Research Colleague
From The Eponymous Pickle

A Dream Tunnel Sequence from a Research Colleague

A research colleague is published!   I will start it soon ...[Mark] " Lacy’s debut novel The Dreamtunnel Sequence is action-packed … Solid writing and a twisting...

Google Contact Lens Camera
From The Eponymous Pickle

Google Contact Lens Camera

A fairly detailed analysis of a patent application by Google that embeds cameras in the human eye.  I recall seeing a number of proposals like this a decade plus...

New Methods Taking place of Cookies
From The Eponymous Pickle

New Methods Taking place of Cookies

In Adage: How Mobile-Tech Players Are Crumbling the Cookie. Microsoft, Google, Apple Look to Track Consumers on Phones, Devices .... " 

Multilingual Promotion Apps
From The Eponymous Pickle

Multilingual Promotion Apps

Simple idea.  Useful statistics too. Quite appropriate: " ... Brands including General Mills and Clorox are targeting Hispanic consumers through the bilingual Veo...
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