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Efficiency vs Value in Innovation
From The Eponymous Pickle

Efficiency vs Value in Innovation

In Innovation Excellence:   A look at the innovation equation.  Measurement is always a useful exercise, even if you don't use the measure directly. " ... What...

Improving Your Personal Brand
From The Eponymous Pickle

Improving Your Personal Brand

I was pointed to some interesting pieces in this blog about measuring and improving your personal brand: .  " ... Leaders need to have a big, bold vision that others...

P&G Marketing Spend Rising
From The Eponymous Pickle

P&G Marketing Spend Rising

AdAge article on how increasing P&G performance is leading to increasing its marketing spending. P&G already planned to step up marketing and innovation in the...

Scanning the Brains of Dogs
From The Eponymous Pickle

Scanning the Brains of Dogs

In Wired:   An article about how DARPA is planning to scan the brains of dogs to make better choices of military pairings.  An interesting idea that could look...

Big Data Skill Shortage?
From The Eponymous Pickle

Big Data Skill Shortage?

Forbes piece on what they call a Big Data Skills Shortage. Here I believe that followup training to a typical Computer Science or Information Management degree...

Neuroscience Shopper Engagements
From The Eponymous Pickle

Neuroscience Shopper Engagements

Ron Wright of Sands Research Writes to me:Lily Glick was the lead on the POPAI Shopper Engagement Study and we throughly enjoyed working with her on this project...

Forrester on New Workplaces
From The Eponymous Pickle

Forrester on New Workplaces

Another look at where we work and why.  Technology has opened lots of new possibilities, but also new overhead to making the process work.  I was at a meeting yesterday...

Making Virtual Reality Real
From The Eponymous Pickle

Making Virtual Reality Real

In Fast Company:  Did lots of work dealing with how a virtual presence could be be as real as possible.  So these findings are useful.

Finding Patterns in Business Data
From The Eponymous Pickle

Finding Patterns in Business Data

Was introduced to and further investigating Verix:  " ... Beyond Traditional BI ... By fully automating the search and analysis of business data, you skip the tedious...

Making Data Meaningful
From The Eponymous Pickle

Making Data Meaningful

From today's Data Visualization Day at UC.  A talk by Jeffrey A Shaffer, VP of Information Technology and  Analytics at Unifund.    He is also an adjunct professor...

Zipcar as an Acquired Innovation Idea
From The Eponymous Pickle

Zipcar as an Acquired Innovation Idea

Innovation Excellence writes about the acquisition of Zipcar by Avis.  Zipcar is the urban car sharing service, which we looked at as an example of the innovation...

Coke is Gamifying the Game
From The Eponymous Pickle

Coke is Gamifying the Game

In Adage:  Coke creates a social media game based on a Superbowl ad.   How well will it work for ongoing engagement beyond the event?   Would it have been better...

Complexity Course from SFI
From The Eponymous Pickle

Complexity Course from SFI

A free eleven week MOOC course on a introduction to the concepts of complexity by the Santa Fe Institute.   To start February 4.  An example of Massive open online...

Massive Open Online Courses
From The Eponymous Pickle

Massive Open Online Courses

I have been connected to Massive Open Online Courses (MOOC) for some time now.  The link gives an overview of what they do and cover today.  The topic reminds me...

Kinect Sensors in Everyday Life
From The Eponymous Pickle

Kinect Sensors in Everyday Life

Still looking at the opportunities to connect sensors to gather  to improve analytical decision making.  Here some more learnings out of CES on the topic of using...

Emailed Dashboards
From The Eponymous Pickle

Emailed Dashboards

David Hecht via Teradata's Gib Bassett.  On a school of management based on emailed dashboards.  Lately there has been   This article suggests a simple method of...

Augmented Reality Potty Training
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Augmented Reality Potty Training

Metaio reports on Kimberly Clark's Pull-ups potty training via an Augmented reality App.  To Celebrate the First Flush.  Clever idea here.  Descriptive Video."...

Data Quality Dimensions
From The Eponymous Pickle

Data Quality Dimensions

From Malcolm Chisholm: Rethinking the Dimensions of Data Quality.  An important issue.   Consider that data supports analytics, and analytics drives decision making...

Internet of Things
From The Eponymous Pickle

Internet of Things

In Information Week: A video about a visit to the Internet of Things Consortium at CES.  The trend that continues to develop. With many concerns and increasing...

Facial Analysis and the Brand
From The Eponymous Pickle

Facial Analysis and the Brand

In Mediapost: A good example  of a non conscious detection of brand engagement i.e. 'neuromarketing' capability.  Here using the analysis of faces during stimulus...
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