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Everything is Still Measurable
From The Eponymous Pickle

Everything is Still Measurable

A recent conversation that dealt with how to establish the measurable aspects of a difficult process improvement problem led me to think once again about the book...

An Introduction to Bayesian Networks
From The Eponymous Pickle

An Introduction to Bayesian Networks

I may have included this in a previous post, but it is worth repeating.   A good basic introduction to Bayesian Network methods from Conrady Science, which integrates...

CRM Data is Incorrect or Out of Date
From The Eponymous Pickle

CRM Data is Incorrect or Out of Date

Frost & Sullivan and IBM write about the problems with CRM data.   The article contains many statistics about the problem and how integrating solutions that making...

Using Technology to Drive Loyalty
From The Eponymous Pickle

Using Technology to Drive Loyalty

It has now been many years since the first use of loyalty data processes.   Technology continues to help leverage these ideas by leveraging the economic exchanges...

Better, Simpler, Cheaper
From The Eponymous Pickle

Better, Simpler, Cheaper

What makes the the European retailer Tesco great?   I have interacted with them a number of times and they are impressive in their use of technology and analytics...

Google Acquires Frommers
From The Eponymous Pickle

Google Acquires Frommers

This content acquisition includes some 350 travel guides.  Searchable I assume.  Making Google more of a published travel content location rather than just a portal...

Printing a 3D House
From The Eponymous Pickle

Printing a 3D House

Via Mark Perry.  Points to a TED talk. Not close to feasible yet, see the comments section for some thoughts on that, but an indication of where the proponents...

Best Tech Investments They Never Made
From The Eponymous Pickle

Best Tech Investments They Never Made

An interesting piece in CW about how CIO's decide to make investments in technologies.  What they have done or not and why.  Done in a story format. Useful from...

Data Analytics in the Utility Industry
From The Eponymous Pickle

Data Analytics in the Utility Industry

Last year I attended a GE Smart Grid meeting and was inspired to take a closer look at how smart data and analytics are improving utility efficiency. I continue...

Conversation with Jun Lee of ReD
From The Eponymous Pickle

Conversation with Jun Lee of ReD

Former colleague Lou Killeffer has a conversation with Jun Lee of ReD Associates on design thinking, strategies of innovation and how human behavior and views are...

Still not Paperless After all These Years.
From The Eponymous Pickle

Still not Paperless After all These Years.

Have you noticed we are still not in a paperless world?  It was predicted years ago, but I still get paper mail receipts, notes, specification sheets, businessArs...

Remote Updating Curiosity
From The Eponymous Pickle

Remote Updating Curiosity

I have been been following the exciting work of NASA in landing on Mars.  In particular how a number aspects of the system have autonomy and how that influences...

Crowd Sourcing Examples
From The Eponymous Pickle

Crowd Sourcing Examples

A group of interesting examples of the use of Crowd Sourcing.  I don't agree that Crowd Sourcing is always a smarter solution, but it should be considered.     ...

David Gelernter on the Internet School
From The Eponymous Pickle

David Gelernter on the Internet School

In the WSJ:  Good thoughts, I still like focusing the human touch, but lets use all the tools available:   The Friendly, Neighborhood Internet School  We have the...

Amazon Lockers
From The Eponymous Pickle

Amazon Lockers

In Innovation Excellence:  In some locations you can have your Amazon shipment delivered to a locker that you can access 24 hours a day.   You are emailed a one...

Strategic Leadership of Portfolio and Project Management
From The Eponymous Pickle

Strategic Leadership of Portfolio and Project Management

Soon to be published by a colleague: : Strategic Leadership of Portfolio and Project Management, byLaurence J. Laning  and, Timothy J. Kloppenborg.  Appears to"...

Speed and Innovation
From The Eponymous Pickle

Speed and Innovation

Blocking speed blocks innovation. Often yes, but the the scale-speed of the innovation matters.  Early speed to trim ideas, is usually good ... but once down the...

Individualized Pricing
From The Eponymous Pickle

Individualized Pricing

The NYT discusses how and why people can be given individualized prices for goods.  If course this has been done for a long time.  Through promotions.  Loyalty...

Swarming Drones
From The Eponymous Pickle

Swarming Drones

Boeing demonstrates swarming drones.   Which reminds me of long ago projects that looked at how simple,uni-purpose, cheap and even disposable robotics could be...

Deep Natural Language Analysis
From The Eponymous Pickle

Deep Natural Language Analysis

Of Interest:  Another DARPA example I have just examined.  Automated, deep natural-language understanding technology may hold a solution for more efficiently processing...
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