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Amazon Prime’s Random Approach To Productivity
Amazon. The Behemoth of Booksellers. The Disruptor of Retail. The Patron Saint of the US Postal Service (their Prime saved USPS’s bacon). Amazon. The Paragon of Predictive Analytics. The Role Model of Recommendation Systems. Given Amazon’s obsession with data and…
Virtual Reality Needs to Go Social to Benefit KM
Driving a Rover on Mars? Touring Valen's Reef in the Bird’s Head Seascape international preserve? Reliving Hurricane Sandy as the waters rose? I had a chance to experience all three of these in virtual reality (VR) at the 2016 Aspen Ideas Festival. All three experiences would have been…
One Easy Tip to Be More Productive from Charles Duhigg
Being the head of a productivity center, I am on a lifelong quest to increase my own productivity and happiness. I never seem to get enough done: my “to do” list is always bigger than my “TA DA – it’s done!” list. Imagine my delight when Charles Duhigg, Pulitzer Prize winning author of the…
That Machine is a Better Storyteller Than Me
I am willing to bet that machines wrote some of the emails, spider crawls, and media alerts that come across your screen every day. A grizzled sports writer didn’t write the recap of the baseball game; most weather alerts and forecasts weren’t written by a meteorologist; financial analyses and…
Louis Richardson of IBM on Making Social Smart
Virtually every mature KM program has or wants a social collaboration aspect, via SharePoint, Yammer, a wiki, or any one of the myriad open source or inexpensive proprietary and public social networking sites. Employees want to connect as easily at the office as they do in their personal life for a…