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Farid Mheir's insight:
WHY THIS IS IMPORTANT Learning from the best is a must today. Engineering blogs are the way to gather insights from the best companies and individuals, to learn what solutions they found to the most difficult problems around.
I often refer to engineering blogs in my posts, see here some of them: http://fmcs.digital/?s=engineering This replaces an old references from 2015: http://sco.lt/6p5b7p
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The concept of ‘mobile first’ is no longer exclusive to technology-focused businesses and consumers, but is the default position for a growing number of internet users, who now consider smartphones and tablets essential to their daily lives. In this report, we examine key mobile behaviours that have propelled it to a primary platform, using 9 global markets (USA, Canada, UK, Spain, Italy, Brazil, Mexico, China and Indonesia) to demonstrate pockets of intense usage within a mobile hierarchy of needs.
Farid Mheir's insight:
WHY THIS IS IMPORTANT We've been warning that our consumption of Internet will move to the mobile devices since 2005 when Google bought Android and Apple started work on the iPhone. This report from Comscore comes in to support that with actual numbers. In particular, and close to my field of expertise, it looks like most of us already consume digital on our mobile phones in the grocery store more than any other category... Also, the analogy with the hierarchy of needs is dear to me as I wrote about the Hierarchy of digital needs recently... http://fmcs.digital/blog/pyramid-of-digital-needs/
Greg Olsen's curator insight,
April 7, 2017 10:49 AM
Mobile first is not a mantra to be given lip service to -- Maslow 2.0 (the hierarchy guy) would see mobile as a tool to lead us down the primrose path to self-actualization. True enough - 100 hundred years ago if you wanted to climb a mountain in Peru you spent a month researching, shopping, & preparing. Today with mobile you do all that AND facebook your friends about your new adventure all in minutes. No wonder why physchology = availability.
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Selling groceries is an increasingly competitive business. What are retailers doing to stay in the game?
Farid Mheir's insight:
WHY THIS IS IMPORTANT The retail stores will invariably change and this article explores some of the ways that this may happen: drive-thru stores, movement detecting sensors, digital shelves, social media interactions with stores to select products, scan-and-go or even better, grab-and-go without lines or cash registers. What will the store look like in the future?
bert juriyam's curator insight,
April 7, 2017 1:24 AM
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The Internet of Things moves mainstream and continues to see rapid growth and development. The report lists
Farid Mheir's insight:
WHY THIS IS IMPORTANT Looks like we soon will have Internet in every device we own. That's the Internet of Things. This reports provides a good overview of the market, the trends but also the possible uses for these devices. Must have in every business digital strategy.
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As B2B ecommerce matures and evolves, we’re beginning to see businesses transition beyond traditional commerce channels (online and offline). One area where we’ll see rapid innovation is in “browserless” commerce, which is quite simply removing the traditional browser interface from a range of purchasing / service scenarios.
Farid Mheir's insight:
WHY THIS IS IMPORTANT It is true that Internet permeates every single fiber of the digital strategies and we often forget to think outside the box. In this case, how can we perform eCommerce transactions without the use of a browser? AI, internet of things, chatbots are great ways to explore the opportunities.
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"Trends in Smart City Development" is a new report from the National League of Cities featuring case studies about how five cities – Philadelphia, San Francisco, Chicago, Charlotte, N.C., and New Delhi, India – are using different approaches to implement smart city projects.
Farid Mheir's insight:
WHY THIS IS IMPORTANT Cities will contribute an enormous amount of data to help improve travel, work and life in general.
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Unleash the bots! Automation has emerged as a critical issue in the US following a 2016 election that focused largely on jobs and plans to save them. Though a significant amount of attention has been directed towards autonomous driving as a potential job killer, specifically for long-haul trucking, delivery robots appear poised to go mainstream much sooner.
Farid Mheir's insight:
WHY THIS IS IMPORTANT We think of robots as fixed machines that assemble cars. However, with the advances in autonomous driving we may see an explosion of delivery robots. We have seen experiments with the use of drones to deliver products (Amazon and others) and now we are seeing self driving robots appear on the streets as it is much easier to get permits for those than it is for flying objects that can crash and hurt people. This is important because delivery remains the Achille's heel of eCommerce (slow, expensive): whoever cracks this problem and comes up with a low cost and economical solution will make a killing.
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Plenty of tech companies seem convinced that augmented reality is the next big thing.
Farid Mheir's insight:
WHY THIS IS IMPORTANT Much talk about virtual reality these days but looks like the killer app will be AR. Wrote about this in the past and looks like IDC research agrees with me... ;-)
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Is the future of content management decoupled? Centralization around a single source of content has never been more important as marketers aim to reach
Farid Mheir's insight:
WHY THIS IS IMPORTANT Another look into new web and mobile CMS solutions.
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Learn more about the implications of the JAMstack (JavaScript, APIs & Markup) & static site CMS for non-technical clients & businesses.
Farid Mheir's insight:
WHY THIS IS IMPORTANT Web is very dynamic and there are many new developments in technology to help improve website and mobile development. Here is an interesting look at new technologies for Content Management Systems (CMS).
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This post provides a primer on the types of card fraud and the likelihood with each of the cardholder ever learning how their account was compromised.
Farid Mheir's insight:
WHY THIS IS IMPORTANT I always wondered how thieves steal my credit card number and this post is a very good explanation. It shows where I should be careful about my credit card use and, for business, where to look to improve security.
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When it comes to groceries, most Chinese still rely on their neighborhood markets. But that’s starting to change as Alibaba and JD.com use a new form of courier service that works like the Uber of delivery.
Farid Mheir's insight:
WHY THIS IS IMPORTANT Americans have been at the fore-front of eCommerce - and in many respects UK, France and other European countries also. However, news like this remind us to look East to China, India and other Asian countries for digital innovation - here in the context of Retail but I assume it may be the case for other innovations.
tavaresandro's curator insight,
March 27, 2017 11:45 AM
Book sugestion: Reverse Innovation
- https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/1422157644/ref=mp_s_a_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1490629081&sr=8-1π=AC_SX236_SY340_QL65&keywords=reverse+innovation
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100 million rides and runs, 220 billion data points visualizing the best roads and trails worldwide.
Farid Mheir's insight:
WHY THIS IS IMPORTANT Big brother is watching and when it does you can gain tremendous insights into the behaviour of humans. I zoomed in on Montreal and the diagram is very clear about which run trails are most popular on the Mount Royal. On the dark side, of course, this means Strava performs some high level surveillance on us as we share our bike and run rides with their software.
Eric Hunter's curator insight,
March 27, 2017 11:43 AM
Taking this beyond just being really cool, into value creating is the next challenge. Great #dataviz work!
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Big data’s potential just keeps growing. Taking full advantage means companies must incorporate analytics into their strategic vision and use it to make better, faster decisions.
Farid Mheir's insight:
WHY THIS IS IMPORTANT To unlock up to 50% of value in data analytics in major industries, businesses must invest in talent and break down data silos. HUGE job IMHO...
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The worldwide wearables market reached a new all-time high as shipments reached 33.9 million units in the fourth quarter of 2016 (4Q16), growing 16.9% year over year. Shipments for the entire year grew 25% as new vendors entered the market and previous champions refreshed their product lineups. The year came to a close with 102.4 million devices shipped.
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Tech companies are spending hundreds of millions of dollars to improve conditions for female employees. Here’s why not much has changed—and what might actually work.
Farid Mheir's insight:
WHY THIS IS IMPORTANT Need more diversity. Period.
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Building a new website seems like an impossibly hard task, something that'd take a few hours at best and a few weeks or months at worst. You'd never make a new website just to share a couple reports or write about a project you're working on. You could, however. With the newly redesigned Google Sites—one of Google's best yet least known apps—you can build a full website for free in minutes. Here's how.
Farid Mheir's insight:
WHY THIS IS IMPORTANT Good to know that there is less and less friction to be online and in the cloud for teams and businesses. Moreover, I like using zapier to connect my different cloud solutions and performs simple tasks. For example, I use it to archive into a spreadsheet every tweet I post: useful when you want to quickly refer to it!
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Executive Chairman of Alphabet Eric Schmidt illustrates the results, way beyond expectations, achieved by companies that moved their business to the cloud.
Farid Mheir's insight:
WHY THIS IS IMPORTANT If you ever doubted if cloud computing is important to include in a business digital strategy, this 10min video by Google chairman provides very compelling business reasons to do so.
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Farid Mheir's insight:
WHY THIS IS IMPORTANT Based on a detailed report, this article provides a chockful of stats about investments in certain technologies. Although based on a survey, it confirms certain trends that are widely accepted - so there should be no surprises for readers of this blog.
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The US Department of Homeland Security used software to scan social media accounts of people visiting America, but it didn't work properly. Under President Obama, the government considered asking people to voluntarily submit social media profiles, but since the election of President Trump the scheme may become mandatory and more invasive. The new boss of the US Department of Homeland Security, John Kelly, has said that such checks should be mandatory and travelers should also be forced to provide passwords and banking records. This may take weeks or months, he said, but people will just have to wait before visiting this shining city on the hill.
Farid Mheir's insight:
WHY THIS IS IMPORTANT Besides the obvious invasion fo privacy, this may actually hint at what the future may look like with the miniaturization of cell phones, the presence of heads-up displays and augmented reality. When meeting someone, or simply crossing someone on the street, face recognition and other tools may search the web to provide insights about people we cross and stand in line at the checkout counter. The impact of such constant surveillance may increase an already high fear of others or increase the impact of wrongful information about ourselves that may reside online. Even more reasons to protect your digital twin and ensure your digital footprint is minimal. Follow these links for more. - know your digital twin: fmcs.digital/blog/digital-twin - 10 actions to take to protect your digital twin: fmcs.digital/blog/digital-moi-get-started-10-actions
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A SaaS company like Dropbox needs to update our systems constantly, at all levels of the stack. When it comes time to tune some piece of infrastructure, roll out a new feature, or set up an A/B test, it’s important that we can make changes and have them hit production fast.
Farid Mheir's insight:
WHY THIS IS IMPORTANT Software deployment is difficult enough, let's use all the tricks in the book to make it easier. If it is good enough for dropbox I guess it should be good enough for me as well...
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Farid Mheir's insight:
WHY THIS IS IMPORTANT We often communicate better with images and drawings than with words. ;-)
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“Let us consider an augmented architect at work. He sits at a working station that has a visual display screen some three feet on a side, this is his working surface, controlled by a computer with which he can communicate by means of small keyboards and various other devices.
Farid Mheir's insight:
WHY THIS IS IMPORTANT The fact that AI systems can now suggest new designs and explore new design areas that may be unexplored by human designers should be a strong motivation for businesses to explore how they can leverage AI before someone else does.
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The Venture Reality Fund reported that the landscape of companies it tracks in the virtual reality market grew more than 40 percent in 2016.
Farid Mheir's insight:
WHY THIS IS IMPORTANT With such growth will come one of 2 things: explosion of new solutions and a huge market size OR a complete failure. I vote for complete failure as the solutions will not live up to the hype (too expensive, too immersive / lack of environment understanding, etc.). VR will not be a mass market solution this time around (AR has more chances to be it, but it is much more difficult to achieve than VR IMHO). But the huge amount of investment will yield amazing new devices and opportunities for businesses that will be able to put forward specialized VR solutions in healthcare and manufacturing.
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Wearables have had difficulty in recent months to provide strong selling arguments for their devices - which in my opinion are very often nothing more than very expensive watches. That being said, wearables killer use case may lie in the inclusion of sensors to track your every moves and measure your bodily functions, from heart rate to skin conductivity to blood glucose levels.
Also read:
- top 5 wearable vendors: http://sco.lt/6QYZ73
- Apple wearable sensor network: http://sco.lt/96ftkP
- gyms now leverage wearables: http://sco.lt/68ynsv
- wearables to keep us fit: http://sco.lt/58eRBx
- fitbit for multiple sclerosis: http://sco.lt/8SsH5t
- wireless smart headphones: http://sco.lt/5NXCdt
- ingestible sensors: http://sco.lt/83A1JZ
- apple watch sensors (2013): http://sco.lt/8KKBWb