Digital Transformation: This Is The Future Of Retail
When you think about digital transformation (BTW, I got a newsletter the other day where they tried to represent digital transformation by using DX, you know, like UX – not sure that…
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The Internet Is Theft
Copying Is Profitable, But Is It Innovative? Does It Have To Be? The Internet Is Theft – Me During a course on launching disruptive technologies, the professor turned his nose up at…
How to distinguish “Disruptive” from “Impractical”
Futurists are usually right, at the wrong time. The thing about true innovation, is almost everything is an expansion on an older idea. It isn’t until time and technology converge at that…
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Amazon Buys Whole Foods Market: Evolutionary, Not Disruptive
The big news this last week? Amazon buys Whole Foods. Many in the press are thinking that this is a disruptive move. If you ask me, I’d say it’s more evolutionary than…
How To Build Awesome Bots
The Best Bots Do The Work For You Lately, chat bots have been all the rage – no matter what services you provide, chances are that you have already launched, or are…
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Siri Opens Up, Apple Plays Catch Up, Microsoft Buys LinkedIn
Apple Finally Opens Siri Up (aka Apple Plays Catch-Up) and Microsoft Buys LinkedIn This week’s big news in the tech world is Microsoft gobbles up “business network” LinkedIn for $26B in cash,…
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Is Google Now a Fast Follower?
Maybe Google has been a fast follower all along? I look forward every year to the new stuff coming out of Google’s, Apple’s, and Facebook’s conferences with a lot of interest as…
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The Future Of Retail: What I Want, When I Want It, As Long As I Need It
The Future Of Retail: Immediate, Exact, Temporary I was sitting on my deck the other day, reading an article on my iPad, when I glanced over at my lawn. Hmm, I thought…
Viv Kicks Off The Chat Bot Wars
Will Bots Make It Easier or Harder to Be Visible? Viv, a new audio AI chatbot from Siri’s founders, debuted yesterday at Disrupt NY. While the audio recognition was interesting, it wasn’t…
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The Next Hot Space: Chat Bots and Conversational Interfaces
The rise of the Smart (and not so smart) Chat Bots. I’ve talked at length before about the Seamless World, wherein some not too distant future, big data, the internet of things,…
