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Discover top trends in logistics, information technology, marketing, HR and corporate services.
Farid Mheir's insight:
See trends in IT and Marketing in slides 7 & 8
Christopher Zybert's curator insight,
February 4, 2015 1:17 PM
Always interesting to see the future of IT. With the IoTs on everyone's mind - I wonder how this will influence IT investments over the next few years!
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Farid Mheir's insight:
A recent google adwords announcement provides more omni channel integration for its customers. It links display ads to in-store visits, trying to better measure the ad conversions using mobile android location services. See also http://adwords.blogspot.ca/2014/12/measure-more-improving-estimated-total.html
Jean-Marie Grange's curator insight,
February 4, 2015 4:38 PM
Measuring Multi-channel conversion rate
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Marteq's curator insight,
January 29, 2015 9:12 PM
A wonderful treatise of the various factor impacting a tech firm (not just a marketing technology firm). This could apply to anyone. If you're a member of a technology company, click through for the details behind each of the six categories.
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A handful of purchases can unmask an anonymous credit card record
Farid Mheir's insight:
The article describes MIT research that proves anonymous data provides sufficient information to identify you when merged with location, date and other purchase data. There is no privacy when Big Data is mined. Compare this with previous posts on the subject http://www.scoop.it/t/digital-transformation-of-businesses?tag=Privacy or this specific post about a German politician life exposed via his cell phone location data http://sco.lt/7shPsH
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Open data standards, low-cost sensors, and internet of things connectivity are helping cities create new technology platforms to manage social interactions, the environment, health, transportation, water management, and utilities. Via massimo facchinetti
Farid Mheir's insight:
In the context of recent announcements regarding Montreal Smart and Digital city recently unveiling a 23M$ investment budget. Presentation - #Montreal Smart and Digital City : 2014-2017 Montreal Strategy https://lnkd.in/deCJnUR #innmtl #smartcity
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Online retailer strikes deal for another "customer fulfilment centre” to open in London
Farid Mheir's insight:
Always good to keep watching England where Ocado is grossing 1B pound in revenues. I wrote about Ocado in the past http://www.scoop.it/t/digital-transformation-of-businesses?q=ocado with detailed reports highlighting the company revenues, and cost structure.
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Startup markets tend to ebb and flow. Here are five trends to watch from enterprise startups this year.
Farid Mheir's insight:
no surprise that security, big data, AI and mobile are there but Finance, really?
CEO_University's curator insight,
February 6, 2015 3:00 PM
New businesses are the growth and future of America.
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A list of alternatives for Visio for Mac users. There isn't one that matches Visio 100%. But options in this list could meet some of the requirements if not all. Lastly, there is always the option of running Visio/Win on VMware Fusion or Parallels. | ConceptDraw Pro | @CSO_ConceptDraw, Creately | @creately, LucidChart | @LucidChart, @SimpleDiagrams | Create simple diagrams in a snap!, OmniGraffle | @omnigroup, draw.io @Diagramly, VSD Viewer, Balsamiq | @balsamiq, DIA, and Gliffy | @Gliffy
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Farid Mheir's insight:
Marketing folks are betting 2015 will be the year of customer experience, personalization and Big Data. Omni channel will also be a big focus.
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There are things you can do—easy, free things!—to ward off the many entities (some nefarious, some just nosy) that want to steal your passwords, to know what websites you're looking at, or to gauge whether you're associating with someone who's on their list.
Farid Mheir's insight:
Read this article, then force your kids to read it too, then explain it to them. I know I will.
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You'll find Linux everywhere, including in the most accurate rifles in the world.
Farid Mheir's insight:
Very scary. I wrote about this a year ago http://sco.lt/5xXDI9 and recent events in Paris - shooters filmed everything using their goPro - make me believe that my prediction that shootings may soon be live streamed over Internet could become a reality soon.
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The concept of HR must change to support an increasingly distributed workforce that operates socially in increasingly ad hoc teams.
Farid Mheir's insight:
The paper advocates HR departments to become more networked and embraces technologies more. Read with care and remember this is a promoted report from a software company. The conclusions remain valid IMHO.
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Your shopping habits reveal even the most personal information — like when you’re going to have a baby.
Farid Mheir's insight:
Deep dive into the world of retail analytics where buying behaviour is dissected and analyzed. Provides an example where Target was able to successfully identify that a teenager was pregnant before she told anyone. Which led her parents to discover the truth when they started received coupons for baby care products in the mail. Spooky but considering what I know and that the article was written 3 years ago, this is, unfortunately, old news with old technology. Today, we are much better at it... Must read.
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Inside Google’s massive effort in Deep Learning, which could make already-smart search into scary-smart search
Farid Mheir's insight:
An overview of Deep Learning, a field of artificial intelligence that propelled recent advances in image, video and speech processing. For those engineers of my generation, it enhances neural networks to reduce training required and opens the door to unattended learning, providing you have sufficient data for the networks to train themselves. And this is exactly the kind of stuff that google search, youtube, facebook and other large internet properties have plenty of.
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Amazon's cloud computing infrastructure is growing so fast that it's silently becoming a core piece of the internet.
Farid Mheir's insight:
more data on amazon cloud...
Jake Peters's curator insight,
January 30, 2015 4:13 PM
No surprises here really. Cool stuff though!
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During Amazon’s fourth quarter earnings announcement today, the company revealed that Amazon Web Services (AWS)—essentially its cloud computing infrastructure—has over one million active customers. Via TechinBiz
Farid Mheir's insight:
interesting statistics...
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Marteq's curator insight,
January 29, 2015 5:44 PM
Click through for more details. MIA: Twitter lead cards.
Jake Peters's curator insight,
January 30, 2015 4:14 PM
+1 for MailChimp. I had a brief fling with AWeber this week, it was disastrous, so now I'm back in the fold.
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Consumers around the world are quickly adopting digital banking. Incumbents only have a short period to adjust to this new reality or risk becoming obsolete. A McKinsey & Company article.
Farid Mheir's insight:
Interesting how McKinsey presents digital innovation as both a threat and opportunity. In particular look at 7 traits of effective digital enterprises: it applies not only to banking.
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Wearable tech hasn’t caught on and hasn’t caught on. On Friday, Google withdrew Google Glass from consumer testing, and Apple has continually stalled on the release of their watch. Whether or not Apple eventually releases their watch to popular acclaim, wearable tech will eventually arrive in the mainstream. Probably during 2015. For marketers, this can be daunting. Comprehensive mobile and social media strategies are still hard to deliver, and here comes another, vaguely defined innovation that may turn marketing, again, on its head. We don’t really know what wearables will look like, and we don’t really know what they will do. So how can you prepare a marketing strategy? By relying on what marketers do best: creative thinking, looking for patterns from consumers, and a little bit of imagination. Here are four ways wearables will change marketing – and what you can do to be ready.... Via Jeff Domansky
Farid Mheir's insight:
Article raises 4 interesting paths to investigate for marketers and technologists as well.
Jeff Domansky's curator insight,
January 29, 2015 1:37 AM
Could wearables change your marketing strategy? Find out more.
Jeff Domansky's curator insight,
January 29, 2015 1:45 AM
Could wearables change your marketing strategy in the future? Maybe.
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Biogen Idec has partnered with Google X, Google’s business unit for long-term “moonshot” projects, to study outside factors that might contribute to the progression of multiple sclerosis (MS), according to a report from Bloomberg. more at http://mobihealthnews.com/40031/google-biogen-will-use-wearable-sensors-to-study-multiple-sclerosis/ Via nrip, Olivier Janin
Farid Mheir's insight:
Companies should do this more often: experiment with new technologies - cloud, analytics, wearables, etc. - to explore new business opportunities with minimal investments. All technology companies do it yet few in the traditional environments seam to grab the opportunity. Why?
ChemaCepeda's curator insight,
February 2, 2015 1:08 PM
Cuantificación personal, wearables y big data al servicio de la captura y análisis de información para el estudio de la progresión de enfermedades como la esclerosis múltiple.
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LogMeIn, a company that provides remote connectivity solutions to businesses and individuals, today is announcing an interesting acquisition that builds out..
Farid Mheir's insight:
Interesting new service to manage company passwords. Interesting new way to manage your corporate password for twitter, facebook and other corporate accounts.
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It's not just who drills for oil but how they do it.
Farid Mheir's insight:
has nothing to do with digital transformation but impacts us all...
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Everyday thousands of apps are developed hoping to make their way to the
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Delivering an enriched customer experience requires a new digital architecture running alongside legacy systems. A McKinsey & Company article.
Farid Mheir's insight:
Very much in line with the emerging concepts of systems of record versus systems of engagements (see http://sco.lt/5d1pD7 and http://sco.lt/8Blzhh) this paper presents the impact on IT organizations and processes: the need for 2 different speeds of operation.
Jean-Marie Grange's curator insight,
January 28, 2015 1:48 PM
The impact of going digital on the organization's IT Architecture and governance |
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Capgemini always produces useful articles in these magazines. Must read to stay current.