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The Computational Web Now Realized? Wolfram|Alpha Preview: The Vision

Mitchell Ummel | May 12, 2009 No Responses

May 122009

Based on his previous groundbreaking successes in the fields of computational science and mathematics, my expectations are high for Wolfram|Alpha, a new venture by Stephen “Mathematica” Wolfram, also author of 2002′s soaring 1280-page book entitled A New Kind of Science. Mr. Wolfram’s blog entry states: It’s going to be a website: WolframAlpha.com. With one simple input field that gives access to a huge system, with trillions of pieces of curated data and millions of lines of algorithms. Wolfram|Alpha is billed as a web-based “Computational Knowledge Engine”, and is built upon the knowledgebase and foundational principles established with Mathematica and A New Kind of Science (referred to by Mr. Wolfram and his team as project NKS). …

Leveraging IT’s Wisdom to Shape Corporate Strategy

Christine Generali | Aug 1, 2008 No Responses

Aug 012008

The November Cutter IT Journal invites useful, innovative, and thoughtful debate on how IT can take on strategic leadership roles in the new global environment. We invite anyone who is interested to send us an abstract for consideration. Cutter IT Journal Call for Papers Moshe Cohen, Guest Editor Abstract Submission Date: 15 August 2008 Articles Due: 26 September 2008 Guidelines for Contributors

It’s not “just an accident”. Maybe it’s an innovation.

Anne Mullaney | Jul 10, 2008 No Responses

Jul 102008

Check out this Wall Street Journal article, Oops!, by Rob Austin, Lee Devin and Erin Sullivan — all members of Cutter’s Innovation and Enterprise Agility team. The piece is engaging from start to end, but the section “Let Innovators Collect Ideas” really drew me in. It makes me optimistic that my daughter, who keeps every scrap of paper she’s ever drawn or written on, is not a packrat; she’s an innovator-in-training! Innovators squirrel away things they don’t know how to use. Designers and sculptors collect photos and keep warehouses or cabinets full of things they can’t use (yet). Painters and product developers keep sketchbooks. Innovators of all stripes keep “junk,” as one designer called it, …

Innovation of the Second Kind: Cultivating a Frame of Mind

Lee Devin | Mar 20, 2008 No Responses

Mar 202008

I see a difference between innovation as it relates to particular products, services, or ideas, and innovation as it relates to the great changes that are shuffling their feet in the wings, ready to come on stage and change our lives. To assure long life as a company making goods to sell at a profit, we need a lot of the first kind of innovation; we need, in other words, to continually improve the way we develop and exploit our industrial methods. To assure life at all as a developed economy — a planet even — we need a whole lot of the second kind; we need, in other words, to break with the past …

Scheduling via Agents

Cindy Swain | Sep 25, 2007 No Responses

Sep 252007

No, sorry, not the secret kind. Although if you don’t know about software agents, they may seem secret and mysterious. And I’m sure 007 would have found a use for them. Learn about agents and one of their many uses in Cutter Consortium Senior Consultant James Odell’s recent E-Mail Advisor. It’s reproduced below, and your comments are most welcome. Agent Technology: Painting Trucks at General Motors Traditionally, assembly line schedules are centrally developed and controlled. Any change in the schedule must be centrally reconfigured. When the line is small and has few unplanned stoppages, centrally controlled schedules work well. However, scheduling for most real-world assembly lines can be a nightmare: work stations break down, personnel …

Sock Puppeting and Anonymous Posts

Eric K. Clemons | Jul 20, 2007 No Responses

Jul 202007

The short post that I put up deals principally with making social networking websites work: Attracting traffic, converting traffic to loyal, trusting repeat users, and then monetizing this trust in various ways. Rebecca Herold raises very interesting issues. As we learned from the cartoon in the New Yorker in July of 1993, “On the internet no one knows you’re a dog.” This suggests that you consider seriously the source and reliability of any information you get on the net, lest you end up taking medical advice or trading large positions in penny stocks without first getting an accurate leg count on your information provider. Of course, the situation has only gotten worse in the past …

Valuing Social Networking Websites

Eric K. Clemons | Jul 9, 2007 2 Responses

Jul 092007

Social networks seem cutting edge. Perhaps Second Life should be viewed a replacement for travel, bigger than gaming and movies combined, the next social force, like email. Perhaps MySpace will replace the Yellow Pages, iTunes, even America’s malls as a communications mechanism, meeting place, and sales channel for America’s teenagers. Maybe even manufacturers of prosaic products like Kraft will have community websites that replace their traditional reliance upon advertising as a means of communicating with their consumers. Is this the reason the Rupert Murdoch and his News Corp recently paid more than half a billion dollars for MySpace? The first thing to understand when trying to figure out why News Corp placed such an extraordinary …

Resonance, not Surveillance!

Eric K. Clemons | Jun 29, 2007 5 Responses

Jun 292007

In April of this year Steve Barnett and I published two papers in the Cutter IT Journal on Resonance Marketing, the art and science of developing product offerings that resonate with customers’ wants and needs, cravings and longings. Resonance products represent such ideal fit with customers’ individual preferences that each becomes sort of a mini-monopoly, and the importance of price and price-based competition is greatly reduced. David Lineman published a thoughtful response, “Securing the Long Tail,” in which he reminded readers that resonance should not be achieved by collecting and misusing data on individuals” shopping history or other transactional logs. He listed four points, recently stressed by the European Union in a policy on data …

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The Computational Web Now Realized? Wolfram|Alpha Preview: The Vision

Leveraging IT’s Wisdom to Shape Corporate Strategy

It’s not “just an accident”. Maybe it’s an innovation.

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