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Tibco Spotfire Acquires Extended Results
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Tibco Spotfire Acquires Extended Results

TIBCO Software Acquires Extended ResultsTIBCO Software Inc. (NASDAQ: TIBX) today announced it has acquired Extended Results, a privately-held provider of mobile...

Fewer Skeuomorphs
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Fewer Skeuomorphs

Brought to mind after loading the new flat design IOS7, which contains fewer skeuomorphs.  Which are:  Skeuomorphism  A skeuomorph /ˈskjuːəmɔrf/ is a derivative...

Getting Millennials to Love and Share your Product
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Getting Millennials to Love and Share your Product

In Adage:  " ... How to Get Millennials to Love and Share Your Product ... This Generation Wants to Be Engaged and Feel Good About Themselves ... "

Rescuing Infographics or Making them right
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Rescuing Infographics or Making them right

Readers here know my impatience with what are called infographics.  More set up to look graphically impressive and clever than to inform.  I don't think they can...

On the Millennial Consumer
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On the Millennial Consumer

In Time:  More intent on Browsing than on Splurging?" ... The millennial generation is easily the most studied demographic since their parents, the Baby Boomers...

Long Range Strategic Planning
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Long Range Strategic Planning

In HBS Working Knowledge:  A quick look at long range strategic planning. I say that regardless if the work is not predictive, the path to achieving it is still...

Branded Google Glass Apps
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Branded Google Glass Apps

Presenting Branded Google Glass Apps.  Another move forward?  " ... Google Glass may have just 10,000 users, but that hasn't stopped a handful of brands from developing...

Office Design
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Office Design

Over the years have been involved in looking at office design.  Sometimes leading with advanced tech design, sometimes not.  Today, for the first time for a while...

P&G and Predictive Analytics
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P&G and Predictive Analytics

Nice example of the use of Predictive analytics by my alma mater.   " ... By converting to a smart building system that uses predictive analytics to detect building...

Y&R Says Consumers Lie
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Y&R Says Consumers Lie

Not unexpected, but the details are impressive.  Full presentation." Secrets & Lies” Study from Y&R Revealsthe Hidden Side of Global Consumers A New Consumer Mainstream...

Who Wins in the New Economy
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Who Wins in the New Economy

In Small Business Labs by Steve KingOutlines Who may  win in the new economy.Noted economist Tyler Cowen's Who Will Prosper in the New World discusses what type...

Tracking Things
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Tracking Things

Received several offers about the Tile App.  A little tag you can put on things and then track and locate with your smart phone.   About $20 each.  Available by...

Sensors as Teenagers
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Sensors as Teenagers

In the Cisco Blog:  An excellent piece by Bill Franks of Teradata.  About the Internet of the things and how it will operate, and about the information it will ...

Monitoring the Future of Cloud Computing
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Monitoring the Future of Cloud Computing

Recorded Future uses their novel Web semantic analysis methods to look at the future of Cloud computing.  Visually answering questions like: " ... As businesses...

Nestle Uses Photo App
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Nestle Uses Photo App

In Mobile Marketer: A cute use of photo-taking in a smartphone to build brands.  A simple but a potentially useful idea.  Will it usefully engage?   Who will download...

Hands Free Car Manual on Google Glass
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Hands Free Car Manual on Google Glass

Metaio's press release on their prototype augmented reality car manual, mentioned here before.    I note that this was precisely the area we explored, using 3D"...

Your E-ZPasses are Not Just Read At Tollbooths
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Your E-ZPasses are Not Just Read At Tollbooths

In Forbes:  Are privacy conditions implied to just occur at locations where we expect a device to read our location?   This is probably disclosed somewhere deep...

Why Private Brands Fail
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Why Private Brands Fail

In MypBrands: Why private brands fail.  " ... Most brands fail. In fact, some estimate that 70-80% of new brands launched each year flounder and eventually flop...

Value of Your Big Data and Packaging it
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Value of Your Big Data and Packaging it

What is the value of your big data?  Have talked to two startups recently that are addressing that. The promise of big data is to be able to leverage your own data...

Prosperity Institute
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Prosperity Institute

The Prosperity Institute, out of the Rottman School at the University of Toronto.  Via  Roger Martin.  I like the interesting geographic focus.  " ... The Lloyd...
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