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On Demand Marketing
From The Eponymous Pickle

On Demand Marketing

McKinsey and on-Demand Marketing.  A new term to me.  " ... Digital marketing is about to enter more challenging territory. Building on the vast increase in consumer...

Owning Social Media in the Enterprise and Beyond
From The Eponymous Pickle

Owning Social Media in the Enterprise and Beyond

Who owns an employee social media account?  In an excellent blog post Debbie Laskey brings up an excellent question that leads me to a number of related questions...

Critical Thinking about Nanotechnology
From The Eponymous Pickle

Critical Thinking about Nanotechnology

A proposal for a defined structure about the technology, to promote critical thinking.  When we examined how it would be useful in product development and R&D,...

Robert Scoble Reviews Glass
From The Eponymous Pickle

Robert Scoble Reviews Glass

He says it will come down to price, at least initially.  Not too much about the social implications, just the dazzle of being connected even more than we are now...

The Best Interface is No Interface
From The Eponymous Pickle

The Best Interface is No Interface

Via Jeff Dyck.  He sends along a note from SXSW by Golden Krishna.  The video of the 'Best Interface is no Interface' is here.  A good overall philosophy.   Also ...

Best Interface is no Interface
From The Eponymous Pickle

Best Interface is no Interface

Via Jeff Dyck.  He sends along a note from SXSW by Golden Krishna.  The video of the 'Best Interface is no Interface' is here.  A good overall philosophy.   Also...

Supply Chain and Visualization
From The Eponymous Pickle

Supply Chain and Visualization

I note that a paper I co-authored some time ago has now been re-posted on Linkedin:Blending OR/MS, Judgment, and GIS: Restructuring P&G's Supply ChainINTERFACES...

Best Time to Share Knowledge?
From The Eponymous Pickle

Best Time to Share Knowledge?

At first I thought this was hokum.  A connection to circadian rhythms that make us significantly more receptive to knowledge at some times? But thinking back to...

Sketches Selling Soap
From The Eponymous Pickle

Sketches Selling Soap

A new Dove video called 'Sketches' now gone viral, seems to show how women's beauty view of themselves differs considerably from the view of others.  It is very...

Ivan Sutherland and My History with E&S
From The Eponymous Pickle

Ivan Sutherland and My History with E&S

For a number of years we used Evans & Sutherland interactive graphics displays to develop packaging for new products and to determine their compatibility with manufacturing...

Goodbye Posterous
From The Eponymous Pickle

Goodbye Posterous

I see today that the simple blogging engine Posterous is soon to be deleted.  I set up Posterous blogs for several people.  It was a particularly easy to use method...

On Native Advertising
From The Eponymous Pickle

On Native Advertising

In Techdirt, a good article about native advertising.  Though the definitions vary in detail, it is advertising that is embedded deeply in the content itself.  ...

Advances in 3D Visualization
From The Eponymous Pickle

Advances in 3D Visualization

A recent conversation about how 3D visualization could improve the effect of shelf virtualization.   An overview of current technology in Computer.org.

Advanced Analytics from TDWI
From The Eponymous Pickle

Advanced Analytics from TDWI

At the TDWI conference, Fern Halper talks about what they call 'advanced analytics', which appears to include most statistical and numerical models beyond simple...

Drones and Now Nano satellites: Phonesats
From The Eponymous Pickle

Drones and Now Nano satellites: Phonesats

Lots of things are getting small and more mobile.   As presented in Computerworld.    What are the implications of smaller and widely ranging sensors? " ......

AT&T Launches Domestic Internet of Things
From The Eponymous Pickle

AT&T Launches Domestic Internet of Things

In GigaOM:  Have been looking for ways that the internet can be more generally and systematically brought into the physical home.   For home control and communications...

Wireless Charging
From The Eponymous Pickle

Wireless Charging

Have been waiting for this for a long time.  A look at the status of the state of wireless charging in Computing Now.  First to be seen for mobile devices.  ...

Managing Projects Outside Core Mission
From The Eponymous Pickle

Managing Projects Outside Core Mission

Vic Uzumeri wrote about an interesting idea:I've been working on a project management concept for organizations that need periodic "side projects", but have difficulty...

Obsessions with Causation
From The Eponymous Pickle

Obsessions with Causation

We are pattern matching animals.  Looking for repeatable causes to find leading indicators to ultimately protect ourselves from dangers, or provide us with opportunities...

Big Data for Doctors
From The Eponymous Pickle

Big Data for Doctors

In CW World:   Mining for patterns in health care cases.  The trick may well be to provide the right architecture to mine in.    And it does need to be patient,...
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