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How Gamification Taps into What Makes Us Human
From The Eponymous Pickle

How Gamification Taps into What Makes Us Human

An interview in K@W.   In the midst of reading this book.  Quite a goal, which I agree is difficult." ... In their new book The Gamification Toolkit: Dynamics Mechanics...

Open Source, In Memory Computing
From The Eponymous Pickle

Open Source, In Memory Computing

A trend?    " ... Following through on a promise to open-source its data analysis software, Pivotal has released the source code that powers its GemFire in-memory...

Digital Brightens Black Box of R&D
From The Eponymous Pickle

Digital Brightens Black Box of R&D

In McKinsey:  Very true, but how do you apply the analytics to understand what you are seeing?Brightening the black box of R&DAn all-in-one, one-for-all formula...

Description of Blog and Work
From The Eponymous Pickle

Description of Blog and Work

I have been running a public blog since I was at Procter & Gamble in 2000.  It covers advanced digital innovation topics.  Often what we were experimenting with...

Game Theory and Innovation
From The Eponymous Pickle

Game Theory and Innovation

In Cisco Blog: On game theory and innovation.  Had never thought of this quite this way.  Innovation is an industry, though managing it well can be difficult.

There is a need for Not Google Glass
From The Eponymous Pickle

There is a need for Not Google Glass

There is a market for hands free applications, with easy to wear,  inobtrusive ways to view.  We tested applications.   So the 'failure' of Google Glass may teach...

Teradata Aster
From The Eponymous Pickle

Teradata Aster

An overvew of Teradata Aster and their community.  We visited Aster at a trip to Stanford in around 2010, before their acquisition by Teradata.  A number of integrated...

Power BI no Tableau yet
From The Eponymous Pickle

Power BI no Tableau yet

A friend is continuing to take a closer look at Microsoft's Power BI, and I am following.  A means for doing simple data visualization starting with Excel tables...

Virtual Nurse, Professional Assistant
From The Eponymous Pickle

Virtual Nurse, Professional Assistant

More from expectlabs.com,   Professional assistants.MindMeld & Sense.ly Launch Breakthrough "Virtual Nurse" SolutionThis week, MindMeld is thrilled to announceThis...

More on WordNet
From The Eponymous Pickle

More on WordNet

A short piece on the origins of the semantic ontology called Wordnet.  Remarkable and free resource to pull help you pull apart aspects of natural language.  We...

Amazon Expands Echo Ecosystem
From The Eponymous Pickle

Amazon Expands Echo Ecosystem

In ZDNet: ​" ... Amazon throws in $100 million, developer tools to open Echo's Alexa ecosystem ... The technology behind Amazon's Echo is being opened up to developers...

Healthcare Data Lakes
From The Eponymous Pickle

Healthcare Data Lakes

Via Michael Thompson ...Data Lakes in Health care."Intel recently showcased a Semantic Data Lake for healthcare at HIMSS 2015, the largest healthcare IT conference...

Watson Analytics: Full Potential
From The Eponymous Pickle

Watson Analytics: Full Potential

An infographic on the full potential of Watson Analytics,

Networking Intelligently
From The Eponymous Pickle

Networking Intelligently

Networking Intelligently in an Over-connected WorldErica Dhawan discusses her new book and what she and coauthor Saj-nicole Joni call “the power of connectional...

Global IT Trends Research
From The Eponymous Pickle

Global IT Trends Research

Excellent report on IT trends, via Jerry Luftus.

McKinsey: Digital Hives: Creating A Surge Around Change
From The Eponymous Pickle

McKinsey: Digital Hives: Creating A Surge Around Change

" ....  Leading-edge digital platforms similarly take center stage in Arne Gast and Raul Lansink’s “Digital hives: Creating a surge around change.” Based on four...

Get Global R&D
From The Eponymous Pickle

Get Global R&D

In HBR:   Local R&D is not enough for global." ... In order to expand, digital businesses need to pivot to new and promising growth areas. Often that means making...

Digital Kitchen
From The Eponymous Pickle

Digital Kitchen

Google Think on the Digital Kitchen.   Another clear place for the virtual/personal assistant.  Have tested many in that room.  But its much more than just about...

Intelligent Personal Assistants
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Intelligent Personal Assistants

At today's CSIG meeting Jim Spohrer pointed us to the growth of the intelligent personal assistant, and that the Wikipedia article on the topic had a good listBraina...

Future of Travel
From The Eponymous Pickle

Future of Travel

Friend Dean DeBiase on the future of travel.   " ... At the latest installation of my Reboot Stories, at the ÄKTA Innovation Series in Chicago, I had a chance to...
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