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Pivoting on your Business Model
From The Eponymous Pickle

Pivoting on your Business Model

In Entrpreneur: Have not seen this covered before, but some of the recent enterprise changes made me think about it. Some good, simple ideas.

Gartner: Mobile Apps will be Hybrid
From The Eponymous Pickle

Gartner: Mobile Apps will be Hybrid

A Gartner prediction that over 50 percent of Apps will be hybrid by 2016.  This question came to mind during the recent announcement of Windows 10 enhancements'...

Blockchain Beyond Bitcoin
From The Eponymous Pickle

Blockchain Beyond Bitcoin

In Radar O'Reilly:  More detailed information about the concept and its broader applications.

Getting Knowledge Management Right
From The Eponymous Pickle

Getting Knowledge Management Right

In the APQC Blog:  Some useful thoughts about knowledge management.    KM is still an important topic, but I see it being mentioned less often.   Is that because...

Making Stores Matter
From The Eponymous Pickle

Making Stores Matter

In McKinsey: Stores need to refine how they use their real estate. " ... For decades, the retail industry has followed the same straightforward formula for growth...

[Book] Beyond Design Ethnography
From Putting People First

[Book] Beyond Design Ethnography

Beyond Design Ethnography: How Designers Practice Ethnographic Research Edited by Prof. Nicolas Nova along with Lysianne Léchot-Hirt of HEAD–Genève (CH), and Fabienne...

My Conversation with Edward Snowden
From Schneier on Security

My Conversation with Edward Snowden

Today, as part of a Harvard computer science symposium, I had a public conversation with Edward Snowden. The topics were largely technical, ranging from cryptography...

NIST and EAC Sponsoring Symposium on Voting Systems Technology
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM

NIST and EAC Sponsoring Symposium on Voting Systems Technology

The Future of Voting Systems Technology Symposium II will take place February 9-10 at the Department of Commerce headquarters in Washington, D.C.  Registration...

Friday Squid Blogging: Giggling Squid Restaurant
From Schneier on Security

Friday Squid Blogging: Giggling Squid Restaurant

Giggling Squid is a Thai restaurant chain in the UK. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven't covered...

Systematizing Training Tasks for Specific Goals
From The Eponymous Pickle

Systematizing Training Tasks for Specific Goals

I just got a promotion from the Kahn Academy pointing to their new iPad App.  Now available for download.    Always thought it would be a good to systematize the...

Designing a user experience for wearable devices
From Putting People First

Designing a user experience for wearable devices

Gradinar Razvan discusses some of the questions that UX designers will need to consider when designing for wearables. In particular, he presents the key things...

User Centered Design
From The Eponymous Pickle

User Centered Design

In Wired:  Fascinating piece.   " ... How the Home Telephone Sparked the User-Centered Design Revolution .... Have you ever thought about why doorknobs are positioned...

First Look at Apache Spark
From The Eponymous Pickle

First Look at Apache Spark

A video and technical view intro of the programming capability.  Examining. " .... Apache Spark, the open-source, cluster computing framework originally developed...

When Thinking Machines Break the Law
From Schneier on Security

When Thinking Machines Break the Law

Last year, two Swiss artists programmed a Random Botnot Shopper, which every week would spend $100 in bitcoin to buy a random item from an anonymous Internet black...

Comment Requirements Changed
From The Eponymous Pickle

Comment Requirements Changed

Due to increasing Spam in comments,  you now need to register to post a comment.  In addition, as before, all comments are moderated.  Historically this blog has...

The In-Store Internet of Things
From The Eponymous Pickle

The In-Store Internet of Things

In Retailwire:  From research by Cisco.  We talked to Cisco when the only connective technology was for this was phone and RFID tags.  Everything can and will be...

Google Buys Lift
From The Eponymous Pickle

Google Buys Lift

Late, but of interest.   A move in life sciences.  " ... Google has acquired Lift Labs, which makes a mechanical spoon for people suffering from tremors, in a move...

Tech Trends for 2015: In the Know
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog

Tech Trends for 2015: In the Know

A few weeks ago, The Wall Street Journal posted the article, “The Tech That Will Change Your Life in 2015: Gadgets and Ideas With the Best Chance of Making an Impact...

Mobile Shopping Myths from Data Insight
From The Eponymous Pickle

Mobile Shopping Myths from Data Insight

In McKinsey:   An instructive look at UK mobile data:" ... Understanding what matters in mobile is increasingly critical as people become ever more wedded to digital...

Leadership Development in a Changing World
From The Eponymous Pickle

Leadership Development in a Changing World

My former enterprise is in the news with speculation about who the next CEO will be.   It is still mostly promotion from within there. Candidates mentioned forHBR...
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