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Fix Your Processes
From The Eponymous Pickle

Fix Your Processes

For better analytics, fix your processes.    Have always said that, but take it a step forward, analytics is all about fixing and tuning your processes.

Targeted Data Science
From The Eponymous Pickle

Targeted Data Science

In GigaOM:  Still not convinced that it is the sheer wealth of of data that is driving the big data science movement.  Are there are any new analytic methods that...

Facial Recognition Glasses
From The Eponymous Pickle

Facial Recognition Glasses

Its natural to think of wearable augmented reality glasses including a facial recognition system.  But apparently Google has no plans to include such software at...

More Smart Glasses
From The Eponymous Pickle

More Smart Glasses

Its not all about the Google Glass idea.  The notion of head-wearable, camera enabled augmented reality is being promoted by a number of vendors.  Metaio reports...

Personal Clouds
From The Eponymous Pickle

Personal Clouds

Controlling your own data, is this a great idea?  Prompted by data ownership issues and speed in conventional clouds.  Only a limited specialty concern?

Algorithms that Writes Books
From The Eponymous Pickle

Algorithms that Writes Books

In Mashable:   We have a huge compendium of knowledge on the web, some public, some private, some hidden.   It has always seemed to me there are ways to integrate...

Visualizing Service Design
From The Eponymous Pickle

Visualizing Service Design

I like the idea of visualization of design.  Its very natural for most people to think this way.  Add it to a presentation and you will capture their attention....

Digimind, Brought Back to my Attention.
From The Eponymous Pickle

Digimind, Brought Back to my Attention.

Digimind* Bigger box/ Bigger letters mean higher number of market news where “arctic” was discussed, indicating potential trend…I have selected country on the variation...

Adjusting to the Digital Landscape
From The Eponymous Pickle

Adjusting to the Digital Landscape

Well, yes, hope its not too late.  " ... As consumers turn to digital and mobile sources for product information and purchases, retailers have no choice but to  ...

Designing Your Next Product
From The Eponymous Pickle

Designing Your Next Product

Should a five year old?  Not unless five year olds buy it.  Naive does not necessarily make your product good.

Gamification Is Individual
From The Eponymous Pickle

Gamification Is Individual

Interesting thoughts.   "   ... A recent article by the IT specialist website Lifehacker Australia describes the most common pitfall of gamification; businesses...

Smart Devices Making Us Dumber
From The Eponymous Pickle

Smart Devices Making Us Dumber

In CIOInsight:  Sounds much like the argument being made not so long ago about the use of calculators and before that,  slide rules.   Were we being dumbed down...

Brainwashed, the Overreach of Neuroscience
From The Eponymous Pickle

Brainwashed, the Overreach of Neuroscience

Just received, Brainwashed: The Seductive Appeal of Mindless Neuroscience  by  Sally Satel  and Scott O. Lilienfeld  I was interviewed for this book and read an...

Advice for Returning CEOs
From The Eponymous Pickle

Advice for Returning CEOs

Knowledge @ Wharton provides a history and analysis of returning CEOs,  see my note on P&G's AG Lafley's return.    Asking if the 'Gamble' will pay off.  Instructive...

Whats New on Lafely's List
From The Eponymous Pickle

Whats New on Lafely's List

In AdAge:  I liked the fact that his predecessor, Bob McDonald, seemed to be emphasizing the analytical in finding ways to improve business.  Yet soon found that...

Analytics Summit this Friday
From The Eponymous Pickle

Analytics Summit this Friday

Last chance, this Friday .... contact numbers below ... I unfortunately will be out of town, but looks to be good." ... Analytics Summit 2013  will be held on May...

Rise of Mobile Only
From The Eponymous Pickle

Rise of Mobile Only

In a look at potential C suite users for business intelligence applications we quickly discovered a large number of users that are now mobile only.   More thanThe...

An Age of Smart Machines
From The Eponymous Pickle

An Age of Smart Machines

In the Economist:  Can we, will the knowledge worker be replaced and when?   Kurt Vonnegut is invoked from his novel Piano Player.   We certainly believed this "...

Information Insertion at Point of Need
From The Eponymous Pickle

Information Insertion at Point of Need

From the BBC: What a good ridiculously simple idea, a sticker applied to Mercedes vehicles that contains a QR code, which directs first responders to rescue methods...

Designer Storytelling
From The Eponymous Pickle

Designer Storytelling

Artifacts and more in storytelling.    You would think that today the universality of information technology would always bring it to the forefront as a required...
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