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Risk Bias
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Risk Bias

In Mckinsey Quarterly:   Overcoming a bias against risk.  " .... Risk-averse midlevel managers making routine investment decisions can shift an entire company’s...

Brands Pushing to Shoppers
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Brands Pushing to Shoppers

Brands increasing push notification to mobile shoppers on the move.  In BrandWeek.  " .... The notifications can be triggered by contextual factors such as location...

Ditching Powerpoint Bullets for Pictures
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Ditching Powerpoint Bullets for Pictures

Picture superiority, which means using very few written words in presentations, is evoked in Forbes.  Made me think of an important proposal I was part of crafting...

Mobile as a Bridge to In-Store
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Mobile as a Bridge to In-Store

In AdAge:    Writing about a recent Google study.  Obvious at one level, but also an increasingly important concept as mobile becomes our ever available information...

Center for Business Analytics
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Center for Business Analytics

In development and talking to:The UC Center for Business Analytics (CBA) brings together organizations and a world-class, multidisciplinary group of faculty and...

Driving Profitability with Retail Analytics
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Driving Profitability with Retail Analytics

From the current issue of Analytics Magazine.  An excellent, practical publication that deals with quantitative analytical methods.  Here: " ... How to make choices...

A New Internet Association
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A New Internet Association

From the Precursor Blog:" ... Google, Amazon, eBay, and Facebook reportedly are launching a new Internet Association in mid-September to be "the unified voice of...

Unilever Balancing Creativity and Sales
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Unilever Balancing Creativity and Sales

In Adage:  " ... The task of delivering on both sales and creativity falls to Chief Marketing and Communications Officer Keith Weed, a career Unilever executive...

P&G Decision Cockpit Detailed
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P&G Decision Cockpit Detailed

P&G's CIO Filippo Passerini provides some detail about P&G's long in development Decision Cockpit, the brains behind the Business Sphere information delivery approach...

New Maintenance
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New Maintenance

Old approaches to maintenance doesn't work any more.  A predictive maintenance in a smarter planet.   A favorite topic of mine, including context in prediction:...

Tabeo: A Child Focused Tablet
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Tabeo: A Child Focused Tablet

In CIO:  Not sure I agree.  Why not just have a collection of Apps aimed at the child?  Yet I imagine it will engage the parent that is not comfortable with the...

Understanding People and Places with Photos
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Understanding People and Places with Photos

In Queue:   Was discussed this today in an enterprise innovation lunch, relating photos to reality.  I have worked in this space before, and it deserves a better...

Virtual Consumer Research
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Virtual Consumer Research

A worthwhile reprise based on several comments and calls.  Virtual research is a powerful concept:We didn’t just decide to leverage some industry standard research...

CEO Data Data Driven Innovation
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CEO Data Data Driven Innovation

In Innovation Excellence: Colleague Julie Anixter makes good points   " ... there is one very heartening trend that we're observing as the drumbeat for CEO action...

IBM RedBooks
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IBM RedBooks

Last week at a very informative Smarter Commerce meeting I was re-introduced to IBM Redbooks.  Positioned as 'no cost know how'.  They are written by a considerable...

Tablets as Shopping Palettes
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Tablets as Shopping Palettes

An article in Ars Technica on the Kindle Fire made me think further about the tablet phenomena.  I also traveled this week and spent time in a number of terminal...

Wearable Computing
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Wearable Computing

A health care proposal discussion for the use of  Google Glass,wearable computing for physicians,  had me looking at the idea again.  Integrating key data for a...

Ingestible Sensors
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Ingestible Sensors

From Springwise, and then linked to your phone..  A long ago idea, is proposed again.

Grocery List Apps
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Grocery List Apps

In Mashable:  Useful survey of a number of apps that address the simple grocery list. What are the key features?

In Need of Business Sufficiency
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In Need of Business Sufficiency

Seeking Better solutions.  " ...The first project, launched 18 months ago, is the Business Sufficiency program, which gives executives predictions about P&G market...
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