Home automation continues to evolve. Some call it a solution in search of a problem. My experience stretches back to the 1980s with Radio Shack branded X10 Plug ‘n Power products. My earliest apartment included remote control lights. I continued to my aging X10 modules until 2015 when I cast a wide post-CES net for.
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Time to put AR and VR in the Human-Machine Toolbox Look at AR and VR as bigger parts of the Human-Machine Toolbox rather than standalone technologies. Developers should focus on outcomes, not tools. I just talk about human-machine-interface now I had a nice lunch with Booz Allen Hamilton’s Nirav Desai this week. We were catching.
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Microsoft Teams SharePoint Front-End? Microsoft Team’s continues to evolve. Teams offers some good basic collaboration features, but one thing the product has not evolved into is a knowledge management front-end to SharePoint. It is true that Teams is built on SharePoint. While, Teams is a major advance over the simple Team Sites that existed in previous versions.
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Tomorrow many people will receive the final bits of what is known as Windows 10. For those already previewing the release, as I am, it appears that a Windows Update process will push whatever bits are required to transform our machines from beta to released software — automagically. With the exception of a reboot, that process.
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I just saw an item from the Washington Post from last December titled: Google got it wrong. The open-office trend is destroying the workplace by Lindsey Kaufman. The article outlines her horrible experience at a New York ad agency that moved to an open office: lost productivity, judgement about personal routines and the daily experience of working.
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The rise of the CDO is regressive because data is an input to information & knowledge, and it is dangerous because it reinforces the propensity of organizations to focus on the moment rather than on strategic action and wealth creation. CDO role: Regressive and Dangerous With big data comes a new corporate role, yet another.
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Serious Insights Principal Analyst Daniel W. Rasmus comments on the ‘Facebook at Work’ announcement in CIO online. “Facebook’s big issue is that they have no enterprise presence outside of ad sales and marketing analytics,” according to Daniel Rasmus, founder and principal analyst at Serious Insights. IT departments are still extremely cautious about bringing new apps into.
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This slideshow explores the uncertainties facing the world in 2015 and suggests fifteen strategic questions every organization should be asking.
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I have been briefing with companies that find patterns in data. In my recent Pinchot “intensive” I was talking to students about the kind of patterns that could be found, as well as the implications for intellectual property law related to pattern recognition. Here are two concepts to thinking about: Discovering Patterns in Data On.
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Apple: Buzz Marketing Isn’t New needs perspective and history. Back on May 2, Apple posted a job around “Buzz Marketing,” as reported in MacRumors (Apple Expanding ‘Buzz Marketing’ Team Focused on Product Placement). I always find the lack of historical perspective on the Internet amusing, amazing, and saddening. Apple was one of the first to.
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