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What Does Data Gate Mean for Marketers?
From The Eponymous Pickle

What Does Data Gate Mean for Marketers?

In Ad Age:  Insightful, thinking now how about the interaction of privacy and big data.  Are the algorithms involved also privacy sensitive?   " ... In addition...

CPG Growing With Innovation
From The Eponymous Pickle

CPG Growing With Innovation

Short piece on the use of innovation and digital marketing to improve CPG sales.    " ... A new report by the GMA and PwC found that despite lagging sales in 2012...

Managing Creative People
From The Eponymous Pickle

Managing Creative People

In Fastcompany.  Good view.  Frequently an issue.  Especially if the people involved do not have the very best people skills.  How many of us do.  Individual creativity...

GE and Industrial Data in the Cloud
From The Eponymous Pickle

GE and Industrial Data in the Cloud

In CWorld:  " ... GE thinks it's time to put industrial data in the cloud. The company is introducing a platform for collecting and analyzing data from industrial...

Fake Shops
From The Eponymous Pickle

Fake Shops

In our innovation labs we experimented with using false front displays to set contexts for consumers in a laboratory.  Interesting and obvious idea, but the coverings...

Smaller Tablets
From The Eponymous Pickle

Smaller Tablets

Looking a several projects that aim to deliver information to small executive groups.  Mobile is esential.   The question is what are the likely formats of theNow...

DunnHumby Buys Standard Analytics
From The Eponymous Pickle

DunnHumby Buys Standard Analytics

Just announced.  A further indication of movement of more data gathering and integrating companies moving towards the use of stronger predictive analytics.  ...

Sandra Hughes Coaching Strategies
From The Eponymous Pickle

Sandra Hughes Coaching Strategies

Former colleague Sandra Hughes,  For a time chief privacy office of Procter & Gamble, has just set up a blog: Sandra Hughes Strategies.  Check it out.  She does...

Data and Analytics Need Stories
From The Eponymous Pickle

Data and Analytics Need Stories

In Fast Company:   Stories simplify, integrate complex things into an understandable thread, engage.   That includes data and analytics, but is not often done well...

Weave Data Visualization into Your Business
From The Eponymous Pickle

Weave Data Visualization into Your Business

Excellent overview piece on the topic, which makes the point that the business process must be woven into the quantifications and visuals,  a favorite topic of...

Communicating Data
From The Eponymous Pickle

Communicating Data

In the HBR: Data needs to be gathered, understood, communicated and embedded in the decision process.  You need quant people to make this happen.  This article"...

Feedly Replaces My Google Reader
From The Eponymous Pickle

Feedly Replaces My Google Reader

In anticipation of Google's Reader RSS shut down in a couple of weeks I have moved to the free  Feedly service.  Both as an App and in Chrome.  Works well, and...

Consequence of EU Tightening  Data Privacy Further
From The Eponymous Pickle

Consequence of EU Tightening Data Privacy Further

A good Adage Article on how the revelations of massive private data leaks could make the EU further tighten data privacy. What does this mean and and what are the...

P&G Takes IT Work from India
From The Eponymous Pickle

P&G Takes IT Work from India

Via my UK consultant, in the India Times.  P&G aims to cut down outsourced IT work in India.  A surprise which is making Indian vendors nervous.

Strategy's Tough Choices
From The Eponymous Pickle

Strategy's Tough Choices

Came late to my inbox.  In the HBR's blog in late May.  Former and current P&G's CEO AG Lafley  on Strategy's Tough Choices.  A video.

Fracturing of Corporate IT
From The Eponymous Pickle

Fracturing of Corporate IT

In CIO Insight:  Different and becoming more so.  Not going away, as some say, standards and security still need to exist.  But the nature of enterprise IT is changing...

Data Visualization Startup
From The Eponymous Pickle

Data Visualization Startup

First I had heard of this.  A simple to use solution by former Facebook employees.  Probably for everyday visual data solutions.   See Polychart.

Networked Things
From The Eponymous Pickle

Networked Things

A good overview of the current state of the network of things.  Which points back to our own experiments with networked refrigerators, in that nexus of the modern...

Failure of Design Thinking
From The Eponymous Pickle

Failure of Design Thinking

In Innovation Excellence:  Interesting thoughts on the failure of design thinking.   A little muddled, but I do think there must be a stronger combination of business...

The Uncomfortable CEO
From The Eponymous Pickle

The Uncomfortable CEO

Former colleague José Ignacio Sordo Galarza  has a new site: The Uncomfortable CEO.   I will follow with more about his new book mentioned: " ... Exceptional CEOs...
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