Innovation Evangelism
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SAP Announces New EPM OnDemand at the SAP BusinessObjects User Conference
SAP’s Sanjay Poonen announces the new SAP EPM OnDemand product at the SAP BusinessObjects User Conference 2012, in Orlando, Florida
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Precision Omni-Channel Retailing
A quick demonstration/explanation of how Casino, a large French-based supermarket chain, is using mobile devices to optimize the customer shopping experience.
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Test, Learn, Adapt: Using Analytics to Improve Public Policy
Randomized controlled trials are rarely used to improve public policy in areas such as social welfare, education, crime, and justice — and that’s a problem
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Facebook is HUGE in Afghanistan and Zimbabwe. Or Maybe Not.
There are more people online in Afghanistan and Zimbabwe than there are living there(?!)
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Teleportd: Big Data Meets Social To Detect Photo-Worthy Events
French startup Teleportd brings sophisticated analytics to real-time social data in order to detect real-world “happenings” – including concerts, rallies, and traffic accidents.
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YSL – Luxury is About Innovation
Carla de Preval, Digital Marketing Manager for Yves Saint Laurent, explains at LeWeb London that luxury is not just about story-telling and craftsmanship, but also very much about innovation.
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The Future of Business: Faster Than Real-Time?
Presenting at LeWeb London, Analyst Jeremiah Owyang of Altimer explained that the conference theme (“Faster Than Real Time”) referred to the importance of anticipating customer needs, not just react to them as fast as possible.
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Only 30% of Companies Are Doing Social Media Correctly
Social analytics company Socialbakers believes that only 30% of companies are doing social media correctly
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Klout CEO Gets Sauteed at LeWeb London
At today’s LeWeb London conference, Alexia Tsotsis of TechCrunch interviewed Joe Fernandez, Co-Founder & CEO of Klout. The company rates people’s online social influence, and some real-world organizations are now using the rating to determine how to treat their customers, with perks for those with the highest status in the hope that they will praise…
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“Joyfully Flexible” LeWeb London
LeWeb London is happening today, in a truly beautiful venue in central London. This is (probably) the first of a series of posts from the event (battery permitting).