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Google Maps is Back for iOS
From The Eponymous Pickle

Google Maps is Back for iOS

I have been a user of Google Maps since its Beta Days,  where tested it for geo data environmental and marketing applications.  Now as an iOS phone and tablet user...

Idea Connection
From The Eponymous Pickle

Idea Connection

I was reminded of IdeaConnection recently.  A site that connects innovative ideas and their uses.   I had the opportunity to chat with them for the enterprise a...

Business Model Visualization
From The Eponymous Pickle

Business Model Visualization

David Sibbit discusses business model visualization.  A topic I love and that he instructed us on during the 1980s.    Lots of collaborations, books and even a...

Demand Planning Secrets of P&G
From The Eponymous Pickle

Demand Planning Secrets of P&G

A recent video and talk by former colleagues.   Hardly secrets, which is what the CGT title boasts, but worth looking at for all practitioners of the science and...

Super Networking
From The Eponymous Pickle

Super Networking

Been reading in recent Inc Mag articles recently and found this one by Scott Gerber that was on point.  Answering the question:  How to I become a value added networker...

Tracking You
From The Eponymous Pickle

Tracking You

I have seen this many times, you shop or search for something online and you start to get lots of offers for more information.  In the WSJ: How they Know What you...

Eliminating the Middleman
From The Eponymous Pickle

Eliminating the Middleman

A way to broker college courses directly from professors to the student.  So whats a college for?   " .... In yet another step toward democratizing higher education...

What is Your Data Telling You?
From The Eponymous Pickle

What is Your Data Telling You?

HP's Saum Mathur:"... For many data scientists, innovation is just out of reach. They might have massive data stores, rich with potential business insights, but...

Future of Shopper Marketing Study
From The Eponymous Pickle

Future of Shopper Marketing Study

In Progressive Grocer:  A study:   " ... A study of shopper-marketing trends by Brick Meets Click found that more shoppers are using digital platforms and are willing...

Facial and Tattoo Recognition
From The Eponymous Pickle

Facial and Tattoo Recognition

More on facial recognition, other biometrics and their use in App form by the FBI:  " ... What happens when FBI agents are in the field and want to tap into the...

Shopper Insight
From The Eponymous Pickle

Shopper Insight

In Retailwire,  IBM/DemandTec sponsors an interesting paper: Shopper Insights: Actionable or Academic?  An overview of a survey on the topic.   Our innovation centers...

Cloud Augmented Reality
From The Eponymous Pickle

Cloud Augmented Reality

A correspondent from Metaio sends along this press release.   About their drag and drop augmented reality creation and management software, now usable via the cloud...

Third Platform
From The Eponymous Pickle

Third Platform

In CIO Insight:  Says that enterprise IT will embrace and move to the 'third platform' next year.  This was a new term for me, but includes mobile, social, cloud...

What Hadoop is and is Not
From The Eponymous Pickle

What Hadoop is and is Not

Good take by Mike Madsen.  Its about parallel data processing which is very useful for doing analytics quickly with big and volatile data sets.  It does not replace...

Book: The Consumer Mind
From The Eponymous Pickle

Book: The Consumer Mind

In Neurorelay:   A review of The Consumer Mind, by Pepe Martinez of Millward Brown.   A company we worked with a few years ago in a conference on neuromarketing...

Organizational Storytelling
From The Eponymous Pickle

Organizational Storytelling

Colleague Paul Smith is interviewed about organizational storytelling. The other links here provide more resources in this area. " ... A dialogue on the subject...

Linked Smartphone Seismometers
From The Eponymous Pickle

Linked Smartphone Seismometers

I like the idea of using multiple sensors to drive some sort of decision making system.  Smartphones are an example of a commonly available, widely deployed sensor...

Fractal Nature of Organizations
From The Eponymous Pickle

Fractal Nature of Organizations

Nice link through to to a video on fractal organization.  A long time interest of mine that we were able to use for such seemingly unrelated areas like product...

IBM Retail Paper.Li
From The Eponymous Pickle

IBM Retail Paper.Li

I see that one of my posts, on the German clothing manufacturer, has been featured in the IBM Retail Paper.li publication.   I had not seen this aggregation before...

Reinvention
From The Eponymous Pickle

Reinvention

My colleague Sammy Haroon on Core Competency driven reinvention.
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