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Connecting Exercise
From The Eponymous Pickle

Connecting Exercise

In GigaOM: MiGym is designed to better connect the health club exerciser and the customer.  Quantifying the health club workout.  I like the general idea, though...

On the Fallacy of Zero Sum Thinking
From The Eponymous Pickle

On the Fallacy of Zero Sum Thinking

Via Mark Perry.  Real situations are not zero-sum scenarios, they have unknown contexts and unintended  consequences. Always. Be prepared for that.

Emergent Distribution Models
From The Eponymous Pickle

Emergent Distribution Models

Viewing distribution models.   " ...  With direct sales forces under heavy pressure and channel partners becoming scarcer as the reseller market undergoes shifts...

Corporate Culture and Innovation
From The Eponymous Pickle

Corporate Culture and Innovation

In Innovation Excellence:  Culture is essential for innovation to work.  The real culture.  I have been in organizations where the apparent culture promoted innovation...

Building Networks
From The Eponymous Pickle

Building Networks

How do you build a better personal business network?   From Knowledge at Wharton.  Good piece: " ... successful networking goes far beyond handshakes and business...

Who Uses Neuromarketing?
From The Eponymous Pickle

Who Uses Neuromarketing?

During the early days of our cognitive science work we often asked this question. Who among Fortune 500 companies have used techniques to measure and understand...

End of the Public Phone Network
From The Eponymous Pickle

End of the Public Phone Network

In IEEE Spectrum:   Will this system end by 2018?    The 134 year old public phone network is dying.  What are the implications of changes to the network and how...

Predicting A Supply Chain Network of Fast Data
From The Eponymous Pickle

Predicting A Supply Chain Network of Fast Data

I don't normally like yearly predictions.  But I found these to be thought provoking.  They all deal with the long proposed suggestion that increasingly transparent...

Decepticons
From The Eponymous Pickle

Decepticons

Research at Ga Tech is using 'deception' methods used in nature to enhance behavioral models.  Have always been interested in biological models.  They have often...

Changing Perceptions of Big Data
From The Eponymous Pickle

Changing Perceptions of Big Data

From Inside Analysis.  Here I disagree in one sense and agree in another. .  It is true that it has never entirely been about the size of the data.  What we have...

On News Aggregation: Added Value Facts
From The Eponymous Pickle

On News Aggregation: Added Value Facts

In CACM:  News aggregation is a common thing in the internet.  Many sites and blogs find news in their specialty areas, and the results are redistributed to different...

$99 Tablet
From The Eponymous Pickle

$99 Tablet

Akin to the $99 laptop, the $99 tablet, which I wrote about in the enterprise some long time ago with the hope of getting some support to drive it world-wide.  Is...

Reorganizing the Web to Get Stuff Done
From The Eponymous Pickle

Reorganizing the Web to Get Stuff Done

A big part of this is reorganizing search, a big component of our use of the Web.  This article talks about that from the search engine Bing's perspective.   Isee...

War Gaming Innovation Strategy
From The Eponymous Pickle

War Gaming Innovation Strategy

Battle testing an innovation strategy.  In the McKinsey  Quarterly.    This does remind me of defense department approaches, that were reimplemented in big enterprise...

Holiday Shopping Behavior
From The Eponymous Pickle

Holiday Shopping Behavior

Mintel releases some holiday shopping behavior statistics in Progressive Grocer.

Magazine: Driving Innovation in Big Data
From The Eponymous Pickle

Magazine: Driving Innovation in Big Data

New and appears to be quite interesting.  Including: " ... Our interview with Principal Scientist at NASA, Ashok Srivastav ... ".   Registration required.

Storytelling Daily
From The Eponymous Pickle

Storytelling Daily

A Paper.li collection of information about storytelling ideas and technology.

B-Reel
From The Eponymous Pickle

B-Reel

Selling high tech ideas at B-Reel.  An example of using a mix of digital and other media to sell product.  Some interesting examples of 2011 are described.  ...

Myers-Briggs as Assessment
From The Eponymous Pickle

Myers-Briggs as Assessment

We never used the well known Myers-Briggs personality test for specific decisions.  But it was promoted as a means for self-understanding.  I was convinced it was...

Disrupt Yourself with Dreams
From The Eponymous Pickle

Disrupt Yourself with Dreams

My former colleague Julie Anixter  interviews Whitney Johnson  about using dreams as a vehicle for disruption.  "  ... Join me for the webinar interview Innovation...
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