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How the “Frontier” Became the Slogan of Uncontrolled AI
Artificial intelligence (AI) has been billed as the next frontier of humanity: the newly available expanse whose exploration …
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Learning Markets from Communities
From Josh Bernoff in Groundswell: A number of interesting case studies about doing market research more economically and accurately by using communities of your...
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On the Future of TV
A good catch up piece on technologies, incentives and directions re this topic. What will the consumer engagement media-mix of the very near future be? ... The...
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Large Company Sustainability
I was recently asked what P&G was doing in the area of sustainability. Their positions, commitments, reports, video and background information can be found here...
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Winning in Turbulence
Just brought to my attention: Winning in Turbulence, by Darrell Rigby. On my reading list. Excerpts on the Bain site. ' ... Turbulence creates extraordinary...
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Guilt Trips
In Martin Lindstrom's latest newsletter: Fighting Back Against Shoppers' Guilt. A piece about how ' ... Guilt has always been part of the shopping experience.....
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Computers Saving Hospitals Money
A Harvard survey that says that IT rarely saves hospitals money. A shocker to me. I have been a close-up observer of how systems are used in hospitals. I guess...
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Bayes Methods and Manufacturing
Regret won't be able to attend this, is of technical interest:Directed Bayes with High-Level Data Applied in Manufacturing by Theodore T. Allen, Ph.D. Associate...
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Cloud Computing, Long Ago
When I first heard about cloud computing a few years ago I thought it sounded familiar. Central computing utilities. Well it is, as far back as 1965. Just didn't...
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Microsoft and Business Intelligence
Good overview of what MSFT is up to in the business intelligence area for large companies, the whole article contains useful details: ' .. Microsoft has unveiled...
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AT&T vs Verizon Visualization
It particularly attracted me because it dealt with maps and visualization of data. You have seen the ads if you watch any TV or use the Internet. Dueling mobile...
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Neuromarketing in Neuromarketer
In Chiefmarketer, on neuromarketing. What the Human Brain Means to Your Campaign.-
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Black Friday Crashes
Evan Schuman reports on a number of e-commerce crashes in StoreFrontBackTalk. Not unexpected as we move online.
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Kitchen Computer 1969
I recently posted about a 'home system' being advertised by Verizon. Part of our innovation center research was to understand how specialized systems in a home...
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Redlaser Scanner Re-look
Redlaser has just issued an update for their IPhone barcode reader. They say it is faster than the previous version. I uploaded it and tested it on a dozen or so...
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Signatures of Consciousness
In the Edge: Signatures of Consciousness. Very interesting progress: Stanislas Dehaene writes:' ... For the past twelve years my research team has been using...
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Google Analytics Illegal?
Google Analytics illegal, say German personal data protection analysts.
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Plant Social Life
This is not in the normal realm of what I write about, but I am an amateur botanist and all things botanic do interest me. It is also an interesting lesson in experimentation...
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Acquisitions as Retail Geography
A BNet article that looks at P&G past acquisitions, and speculates about future M&A in terms of retail space coverage. I like the idea of understanding products...
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IBM Crowdsourcing
An instructive piece on how IBM sources skills to a job. Requires registration. -
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