A Co-Pilot Seat for Midmarket CIOs Midmarket Clan Editor's Blog 8/29/2011 5 comments The rapidly increasing importance of enterprise IT in front-office functions will inevitably lead to the day when CIO, CMO, and CEO functions are so intertwined that it may be hard to tell one from the other.
Executive Clan Chat: How Not to Succeed In China IE Radio 8/29/2011 110 comments Despite high expectations of the burgeoning China Internet market, many firms have met disappointment and even failure in the People's Republic. Groupon's recent problems illustrate what executives in any sector should avoid when starting a business in China.
The Efficient Middle Office Midmarket Clan Editor's Blog 8/15/2011 2 comments Improving efficiency in the middle office may have special resonance for the midmarket, and the tools for the job are increasingly available.
Ivan Cash, Art Director & Founder of Snail Mail My Email IE Radio 8/11/2011 142 comments Ivan Cash is an artist, designer, and art director who has worked full-time as an art director with Venables Bell in San Francisco and with Wieden+Kennedy in Amsterdam. His professional credits include a social media campaign for Coca-Cola and an all-digital advertising campaign for Intel. His latest project, Snail Mail My Email, aims to show the value of the written word over its digital counterpart.
When Online Ads Go Too Far Jason Mick 8/10/2011 38 comments Crude, lewd, or silly ads don't boost a site's credibility. "Cash for trash" is a deal with the devil.
Decision Management by Customers Midmarket Clan Editor's Blog 8/8/2011 7 comments Combining decision management analytics with social metrics creates an opportunity to put the customer in the operational driving seat.
Deals Drive Location-Content Connection Ron Miller 8/3/2011 35 comments An agreement between Groupon and Foursquare and Google's purchase of The Dealmap show the strengthening link between location and content.
The Power of Kleenex Mary E. Shacklett 8/2/2011 4 comments The techniques of branding might change, but the challenges to achieving super-brand status remain the same.
Executive Clan Chat: Eyeing the Debt Crisis IE Radio 8/1/2011 145 comments As the US Congress and the White House move toward the deadline without a solution to the national debt quandary, enterprises are readying their strategies. Predictive analytics could help. And there may be an upside to it all.
A Co-Pilot Seat for Midmarket CIOs Midmarket Clan Editor's Blog 8/29/2011 5 comments The rapidly increasing importance of enterprise IT in front-office functions will inevitably lead to the day when CIO, CMO, and CEO functions are so intertwined that it may be hard to tell one from the other.
Executive Clan Chat: How Not to Succeed In China IE Radio 8/29/2011 110 comments Despite high expectations of the burgeoning China Internet market, many firms have met disappointment and even failure in the People's Republic. Groupon's recent problems illustrate what executives in any sector should avoid when starting a business in China.
The Efficient Middle Office Midmarket Clan Editor's Blog 8/15/2011 2 comments Improving efficiency in the middle office may have special resonance for the midmarket, and the tools for the job are increasingly available.
Ivan Cash, Art Director & Founder of Snail Mail My Email IE Radio 8/11/2011 142 comments Ivan Cash is an artist, designer, and art director who has worked full-time as an art director with Venables Bell in San Francisco and with Wieden+Kennedy in Amsterdam. His professional credits include a social media campaign for Coca-Cola and an all-digital advertising campaign for Intel. His latest project, Snail Mail My Email, aims to show the value of the written word over its digital counterpart.
When Online Ads Go Too Far Jason Mick 8/10/2011 38 comments Crude, lewd, or silly ads don't boost a site's credibility. "Cash for trash" is a deal with the devil.
Decision Management by Customers Midmarket Clan Editor's Blog 8/8/2011 7 comments Combining decision management analytics with social metrics creates an opportunity to put the customer in the operational driving seat.
Deals Drive Location-Content Connection Ron Miller 8/3/2011 35 comments An agreement between Groupon and Foursquare and Google's purchase of The Dealmap show the strengthening link between location and content.
The Power of Kleenex Mary E. Shacklett 8/2/2011 4 comments The techniques of branding might change, but the challenges to achieving super-brand status remain the same.
Executive Clan Chat: Eyeing the Debt Crisis IE Radio 8/1/2011 145 comments As the US Congress and the White House move toward the deadline without a solution to the national debt quandary, enterprises are readying their strategies. Predictive analytics could help. And there may be an upside to it all.
In the 1970 science fiction thriller Colossus: The Forbin Project, two giant supercomputers from the United States and Soviet Union secretly join forces to take control of the collective nuclear might of the two countries. In the film, the two machines discover each other's existence, communicate back-and-forth, share their collective data, and cut their human creators out of the process. It is the ultimate example of machine-to-machine communications, or M2M.
The smartphone market reached a significant milestone, a breakthrough that may cause vendors to celebrate but could strain the capabilities of IT service desks.
In the fall of 2011, around 160,000 students in 190 countries enrolled in a Stanford-sponsored online course about artificial intelligence. About 23,000 completed the course and got certificates, including 248 who got a perfect score. The university offered the same course the old-fashioned way to students sitting in Stanford classrooms. None of the those students got a perfect score.
As Mitch Wagner discussed today, Yahoo is acquiring Tumblr. The big Internet debate at the moment is whether Tumblr will be good or bad for Yahoo. Regardless of their stances on the future of Yahoo itself, many claim that Yahoo will somehow ruin Tumblr.
New York's Metropolitan Transit Authority is conducting a pilot test of digital kiosks to guide subway users to where they want to go more efficiently and at lower cost.
The whole Amazon.reader debate is a double-stupid. It's stupid to think that there's any e-book buyer who doesn't know Amazon's URL, and it was stupider to let ICANN launch the whole free-form TLD initiative to start with.
While NFC's original goal was to enhance mobile commerce applications, it is finding its way into a number of other uses, which is creating both opportunity as well as challenges for IT departments.
Enterprises would like to move to cloud computing but are hesitant because they are concerned about providers’ ability to secure company data. Here are some tips that help to ensure that if breaches occur, the business is not left holding the bag.
Edmunds separates customers into segments based on the info it collects on its site and from partners, and uses that to push out custom content, said Brian Baron, director of business analytics for Edmunds.com, at Predictive Analytics Innovation Summit.
The automotive website uses propensity modeling to target ads and customer registration forms, said Brian Baron, director of business analytics for Edmunds.com, at Predictive Analytics Innovation Summit.
Ushering in a new era of cognitive computing systems, IBM announced today the IBM Watson Engagement Advisor, a technology breakthrough that allows brands to crunch big data in record time to transform the way they engage clients in key functions such as customer service, marketing, and sales.
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M2M: Rise of the Machines? Not Yet David Weldon In the 1970 science fiction thriller Colossus: The Forbin Project, two giant supercomputers from the United States and Soviet Union secretly join forces to take control of the collective nuclear might of the two countries. In the film, the two machines discover each other's existence, communicate back-and-forth, share their collective data, and cut their human creators out of the process. It is the ultimate example of machine-to-machine communications, or M2M. CLICK FOR MORE
M2M: Rise of the Machines? Not Yet David Weldon In the 1970 science fiction thriller Colossus: The Forbin Project, two giant supercomputers from the United States and Soviet Union secretly join forces to take control of the collective nuclear might of the two countries. In the film, the two machines discover each other's existence, communicate back-and-forth, share their collective data, and cut their human creators out of the process. It is the ultimate example of machine-to-machine communications, or M2M. CLICK FOR MORE
M2M: Rise of the Machines? Not Yet David Weldon In the 1970 science fiction thriller Colossus: The Forbin Project, two giant supercomputers from the United States and Soviet Union secretly join forces to take control of the collective nuclear might of the two countries. In the film, the two machines discover each other's existence, communicate back-and-forth, share their collective data, and cut their human creators out of the process. It is the ultimate example of machine-to-machine communications, or M2M. CLICK FOR MORE
M2M: Rise of the Machines? Not Yet David Weldon In the 1970 science fiction thriller Colossus: The Forbin Project, two giant supercomputers from the United States and Soviet Union secretly join forces to take control of the collective nuclear might of the two countries. In the film, the two machines discover each other's existence, communicate back-and-forth, share their collective data, and cut their human creators out of the process. It is the ultimate example of machine-to-machine communications, or M2M. CLICK FOR MORE
Executive Clan Chat: How Not to Succeed In China
