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One Best Supply Chain Metric
From The Eponymous Pickle

One Best Supply Chain Metric

In the Supply Chain Digest.  David Schneider suggests that the one best supply chain metric is Operating Cash flow, or OCF.    I admit I had to think about that...

P&G Alumni Bookstore
From The Eponymous Pickle

P&G Alumni Bookstore

Received:If you haven't already found it, take a look at the P&G Alumni Bookstore. Books published by your fellow alumni. Just go to the Book Directory tab on the...

Entity Analytics
From The Eponymous Pickle

Entity Analytics

On entity analytics.  An explanatory video.    "... If you haven’t heard IBM Fellow Jeff Jonas talk about how the right algorithm can help you figure out who’s...

P&G Praises Facebook
From The Eponymous Pickle

P&G Praises Facebook

Marc Pritchard touts the use of Facebook in the Olympics  'Thank You Mom' campaign as a perfect storm ...  Good example of the use of integrated social media. ...

Flash Drives vs Disk
From The Eponymous Pickle

Flash Drives vs Disk

More reliable and much faster.  Expect flash drives to take over from disk drives. But with the advent of the pervasive Cloud will we be storing much less there...

Marketing Experiments
From The Eponymous Pickle

Marketing Experiments

Wharton WCAI has an upcoming free webinar on Marketing Experiments: From the Basics to the Cutting Edge.  On September 12.  I plan to attend.  More information...

Cloud Privacy Illusions
From The Eponymous Pickle

Cloud Privacy Illusions

A recent conversation with a client brought up the issue of privacy in the cloud.  How does it differ from information stored in other locations?  In E-Commerce...

Tesco Virtual Stores in the UK
From The Eponymous Pickle

Tesco Virtual Stores in the UK

Richard James writes:  In the Guardian: "Tesco has launched the UK's first virtual supermarket at Gatwick airport in the hope bored holidaymakers waiting for their...

Amazon Enters Social Gaming
From The Eponymous Pickle

Amazon Enters Social Gaming

Amazon enters the gaming fray.  " ... Amazon says that it has started making social games because it believes it can make social games well. "We know that many...

Predicting Customer Behavior
From The Eponymous Pickle

Predicting Customer Behavior

An example in the gaming industry.  Which we explored as a solution to retail applications as well.  The use of analytics have been common there for years, given...

Nearly Half of Smart Phone Using Shopping Apps
From The Eponymous Pickle

Nearly Half of Smart Phone Using Shopping Apps

From Nielsen:   Not very surprising, the convenience and ubiquity will prevail. " ... Survey results released on Monday showed that 45 million people, or 47 percent...

P&G Digital Gold
From The Eponymous Pickle

P&G Digital Gold

In AdWeek:   A look at what P&G has done with digital and the Olympics.  Also a mention that augmented reality saw little traffic.    " ... Procter & Gamble's...

Coupsmart
From The Eponymous Pickle

Coupsmart

Just brought to my attention by Jeff Dyck:  Coupsmart.  Of interest they write:CoupSmart's Mission:  Marketing Should Be SimpleAnd by simple, well, we mean simple...

Lead with a Story
From The Eponymous Pickle

Lead with a Story

From a colleague of mine, Paul Smith, who reports on the publication of his book on an important topic, storytelling.  Looks to be a great read, will follow with...

Big Data and Social Business
From The Eponymous Pickle

Big Data and Social Business

Via InformationWeek:  As we see more social and mobile data being collected the potential of its use is growing rapidly.  " ... One of the key properties of social...

Security Innovation Network
From The Eponymous Pickle

Security Innovation Network

Colleague Julie Anixter does an interview with Robert Rodriguez about Security Innovation Networks.  " ... to advance innovation and enable global collaboration...

Patient-Mounted Disposable Health Robotics
From The Eponymous Pickle

Patient-Mounted Disposable Health Robotics

Another example of heath robotics, which I have started to study more closely.  A number of examples that gather health data exist already, for minimizing labor...

My History of the Internet
From The Eponymous Pickle

My History of the Internet

Have been reading much lately about how the Internet emerged.  Debating how it was funded.  It happened I experienced much of it first as an early user at the Pentagon...

What We are Learning about Online Education
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What We are Learning about Online Education

A TED video by Daphne Koller of Coursera" ... enticing top universities to put their most intriguing courses online for free -- not just as a service, but as a...

Caerus Analytics
From The Eponymous Pickle

Caerus Analytics

Brought to my attention.  Caerus Analytics.    " ... pushes the boundaries of social and data science to find meaning in complexity. We develop rigorous, innovative...
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