Sunday, March 27, 2011

March 2011 Early Indications: Reinventing Retail

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Despite its unquestioned status as an innovator and a leader in customer experience, Amazon isn't typically credited with business model...
Sunday, February 27, 2011

Early Indications February 2011: An Earthquake Every Year

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It's become a commonplace to state that we live in extraordinary times. Rather than merely assert this, however, it doesn't take a ...
Thursday, January 20, 2011

Early Indications January 2011: The Downsizing of the State?

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Data points from all over converge to announce a time of reckoning: -According to the Pew Center on the States, the 50 states collectively h...
Friday, December 17, 2010

December 2010 Early Indications: Prediction Scorecard

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Last year, on the cusp of a decade, I looked ahead and in essence asked 24 questions. In some ways, the world did not change enough to answ...
Sunday, November 14, 2010

Review Essay: Kevin Kelly, What Technology Wants

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In 35 years of reading seriously and often professionally, I have never a read a book like What Technology Wants. I dog-eared at least 30 p...
Tuesday, November 02, 2010

Early Indications October 2010: The Analytics Moment: Getting numbers to tell stories

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Thanks in part to vigorous efforts by vendors (led by IBM) to bring the idea to a wider public, analytics is coming closer to the mainstream...
Tuesday, September 28, 2010

Early Indications September 2010: The Power and Paradoxes of Usability

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Usability is among the most difficult of topics to define and analyze. At one level, it is much like the famous Supreme Court justice who no...
Wednesday, September 01, 2010

Early Indications August 2010: Rethinking Location and Identity

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Even though they're sometimes overlooked in relation to spectacular growth rates (50x increases in wireless data carriage), successful c...