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How the “Frontier” Became the Slogan of Uncontrolled AI
Artificial intelligence (AI) has been billed as the next frontier of humanity: the newly available expanse whose exploration …
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Why Innovation Programs Fail
In Innovation Excellence: The top reason, and based on my experience, I agree:"A lack of a feedback loop from decision-makers to participants is the most common...
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Ratio of Spend to Sales
A relatively old story, brought to my attention by a recent startup involvement:" ... Booz & Company recently conducted the bi-annual refresh of its Customer Planning...
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Decision Modeling in Game Design
Of interest: "Decision Modeling and Optimization in Game Design, Part 1: IntroductionThis article is the first in an ongoing series on the application of decision...
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Simulation and Training
The Office of Naval Research: We live in an era when we can virtualize most anything. Making it mimic real spaces, or realize something very abstract. Then we...
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Human Resource Analytics Defined
I have recently been looking back to my experience and then forward in what is being done today in Human Resources Analytics. I found the below useful quoteEssentials...
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Protracted Slowdown in Emerging Markets
In Bloomberg: Unilever CEO Polman says emerging market slowdown to last for years. " ... the economic slowdown in emerging markets is here to stay as many countries...
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The Sharp Rise of Human Resource Analytics
We used to do very few analytical decisions in Human resources. There were a few tests, a few hurdles to overcome, very loose impressions gained by short interactions...
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Psych Statistics Wiki vs Wikipedia
I was recently asked to look at a number of online sites for introductory but practical resources on statistical methods. This made me look back at some of the...
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Personalized Google Maps
In Google Operating System: You can now personalize your own Google Maps. First I thought, this is not new, but yes it is: " ... The most interesting thingee...
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Mapping Simplicity
Good overview of John Maeda's bookMind Mapping and Design Thinking ...In his excellent book "Laws of Simplicity" John Maeda, president of the Rhode Island School...
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Real time Cloud Retail Data Analysis
This site was recently brought to my attention. I am currently in the process of helping a retail marketing operation better understand how well it is doing when...
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Become a Master of Creativity
In Linkedin: Looks to be of interest, though I have not read it yet. " .... by Andreas von der Heydt Country Manager Amazon BuyVIP, Leadership Coach, Founder...
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Real Value of Twitter for Brands
In Clickz: Good thoughts. " ... For brands, the key objective on all social platforms remains consumer engagement. Because content-focused social promotions...
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Consumer Drones are Coming
This evening on 60 Minutes ... CEO Jeff Bezos said that Amazon quadro copter autonomous robot delivery drones will be here in about five years. GigaOm says consumer...
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Uncanny Valleys of Human Interaction
The 'uncanny valley' describes the uneasy reaction people have to robotics that look very similar to human beings, but they know are artificial. A lengthy piece...
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Seeking Compliance Everywhere
Have now had a number of connections that deal with aspects of what is called 'compliance', or how entities like companies are in compliance with contracts they...
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Continued Evolution of E-Mail
ReadWrite article on uses of email. Its not dead yet, still in heavy use, but less it seems for personal use, replaced by texting and social media. Also the...
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iPad in Business at the Procter & Gamble Company
Mark Lacy sends this along, nicely done. A excellent example of how tablets can be used in the enterprise. Congratulations to my former colleagues, see the full...
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Sharing Massive Data
In BBC Technology: How do game companies readily share very large 50GB plus files? This interested me because I recently had to do this for an analytics project...
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