Join Intel for Retail Tech Insights at NRF 2018
Every January people from across the retail industry attend Retail’s Big Show, the National Retail Federation’s (NRF) annual exhibition, where attendees can network, learn about important industry...
View ArticleRetail Redefined with the IoT, AI, and Video
Whenever industries transform, businesses have to redefine themselves. We’ve seen plenty of this in the retail industry recently, with many retailers turning to new retail technologies to help them...
View ArticleLatest Should Make Us All Nervous
McKinsey recently issued another must-read paper for retail technologists. I urge you to spend time with the chart on slide two. Serious, what-do-we-do-now time. Seven core value propositions are...
View ArticleWill Blockchains Deliver Healthcare Interoperability?
The concise answer to the question posed in the title is: not exactly. Blockchain is certainly not a panacea or silver bullet that will magically address all interoperability woes. However, blockchains...
View ArticleHealthcare Analytics Require Trust and Security to Be Effective
Everyone is talking about the ways healthcare analytics are going to revolutionize healthcare. I have not seen anyone even suggest that the future of healthcare is built on anything but data. Given the...
View Article4 Key Retail Tech Takeaways From NRF 2018
Last week, I attended NRF 2018 in New York, where I had the opportunity to see cutting-edge retail technologies, talk with people throughout retail about how our industry is changing, and show Intel’s...
View ArticleCollaboration Your Way
It’s our second year at the Integrated Systems Europe (ISE) event in Amsterdam, which is the largest culmination of audiovisual and collaboration experts in the industry. We’re excited to engage with...
View ArticlePatient Engagement is Being Redefined
Recently, I was reading the new KLAS Patient Engagement Performance Report [KLAS 2017 Patient Engagement Report]. In the report, the authors defined patient engagement as, ”the process of motivating...
View ArticleIt’s a Store, it’s a Distribution Center, it’s a Community Center!
Let’s continue the conversation about the store of the tomorrow. Which we must be planning and implementing today. About ten minutes away and down the hill is a retail site in the midst of...
View ArticleNext Big Thing: Conversational Commerce
A consortium of the MIT Auto-ID Lab, Capgemini Consulting, and Intel just released a study on the industry implications of voice-driven commerce. The study can be summarized in a phrase; from...
View ArticleIntel Xeon Scalable Processors: Ideal for SAP HANA In-Database Machine Learning
Why in-database machine learning? By 2021, the average Internet user will generate about 2 GB of data per day.[i] While that’s about twice what the average user currently produces, it’s nothing...
View ArticleAmazon Go and Autonomous Stores: Don’t think of them as a technology story
Lots of comment about the Amazon Go store. And the ten variants of ever-more autonomic stores in China. Four thoughts for discussion and debate: From a shopper’s view: it’s about time. As I visit the...
View ArticlePowering the Future of Data-Driven Healthcare at HIMSS 2018
As escalating healthcare costs and an aging population require the industry to move from volume-based models to value-based approaches, a new data-driven standard of care is emerging. Artificial...
View ArticleCharles Darwin Does Retail
Like most of you, I subscribe to a number of industry news and analyst services. One in particular appears dead-set on maintaining its click-rate with sky-is-falling reports of a USA “Retail...
View ArticleHIMSS18 Preview: A Physician’s Perspective
It’s that time of year again when 40-plus thousand health tech geeks travel to HIMSS to network, and share and learn the latest and greatest successes and failures in the industry to date. I can’t help...
View ArticleBoost IT-Driven Care Improvements With These 4 Strategies
While technology is everywhere you look in today’s healthcare environment, hospital and healthcare organizations continue to struggle to make the most of their investments. These IT-related challenges...
View ArticleImproving Healthcare Outcomes with Artificial Intelligence
Predictive analytics can save lives. Healthcare has always come with the fine balance of prioritizing care and allocating scarce resources. Providers are faced with tough decisions about how long...
View ArticleAt the Shelf Edge: Hunting Conversion in the Realm of the Irrational
It started – as many good things do – with a question. What brings the greatest conversion at the shelf? We know from sources like OgilvyAction that even when shoppers have planned from which category...
View ArticleRethinking PC Performance
Car “A” has a 0-60 mile per hour (mph) time of 6 seconds, and a top speed of 100 mph. Car “B” has a 0-60 mph time of 8 seconds, and a top speed of 140 mph. Which car is faster? I suggest that the...
View ArticleNew Intel Unite® Platforms, Capabilities, and Partnerships Improve Meeting...
I’m stepping into the blogging world while my colleague Kaitlin Murphy is out of the office. She typically shares news on how we’re advancing Intel Unite, our solution for modern collaboration. I work...
View ArticleDarwin Visits the Grocery Store
Retail Apocalypse? Armageddon? Nonsense. We’re in an era of ever-accelerating Darwinian evolution. (For more, read this.) Natural selection among the retail species. It’s unfolding right before our...
View ArticleHealthcare Blockchain in the Cloud
Many health and life sciences organizations are planning to prototype and pilot blockchain in 2018. As they approach a point of readiness to test and pilot blockchain, where to deploy blockchain nodes...
View ArticleRetail and the Law of Least Effort
When it comes to using data, are we willing not to be lazy? Let’s talk about decision-making. Data-driven decision-making. Because despite the buzz about advanced analytics and artificial intelligence...
View Article5 Takeaways From HIMSS 2018
This year’s HIMSS conference didn’t disappoint when it comes to getting a great view of where healthcare technology is going and what is top of mind for those on the frontlines. Here are our top 5...
View ArticleBracket-Busting with Your Retail Brand
How the Law of Least Effort can guide you through the decision tournament of today’s retailing. Let’s talk for a moment about the shopper decision journey. As we know, it’s not a journey of a single...
View ArticleWhat Are the Benefits of Cloud Analytics?
It seems that everything in healthcare is going to the cloud, and with good reason. The cloud has a lot of amazing benefits. This is true for healthcare cloud analytics as well and it is why so many...
View ArticleWhy Does the Store Ignore What Shoppers Trust Most?
Why, in the physical store, do we consistently ignore the most trusted decision source in retail? Let’s talk today about how today’s shopper decisions are influenced. And how that influence is...
View ArticleWhy Does the Store Ignore the Recommendations that Shoppers Value?
Why, in the physical store, do we consistently ignore one of the biggest influences on the decision path? Let’s talk about recommendations. There should be little debate as to the importance of...
View ArticleUsing Drones to Shift the Inventory Check Operations Model
As the online sales industry grows and the role of warehousing—and warehouses themselves—get bigger, having accurate inventory counts is essential to any business’ bottom line. This accuracy allows...
View ArticleOf Course We Want Personalization. But What About the Other Side of the...
Continuing to think about the decision journey. With a broad brush, wondering how–given the latest studies in decision science–brick and mortar retailers can more effectively nudge shoppers toward...
View ArticleThe meaning of eleven-point-nine-billion dollars. (It’s not what you think.)
Eleven point nine billion U.S. dollars. Say it slowly. It’s the rough math of the next twelve months of Amazon Prime* subscriber revenue. The actual number will differ, of course, but it’s a good bet...
View ArticleLack of Speed Will Kill You Dead
On the road again this week, with the privilege of extensive customer conversation. A summary: There's near-consensus... Agreement on today's situation and the threats. Very few heads in the sand....
View ArticleMentoring for Today’s Professionals Means Building Collaborative Relationships
"Life's most persistent and urgent question is, 'What are you doing for others?'" - Martin Luther King, Jr. Mentors play a key role to provide us with advice as we progress in our careers. However,...
View ArticleWhat In the Hell is Retail Friction, Anyway?
In his recent piece for Forbes, good friend Jon Bird reminded us that not all effective retail is friction-free. Jon’s point: Given a time-based definition of friction (i.e., slow is bad and faster is...
View ArticleIntel Unite® Infocomm Booth: Demoing the Ability to Never Start a Meeting...
It’s the week of Infocomm and we’re excited to show you our latest advancements to Intel Unite®, our solution for modern collaboration. We’re in the North Hall and Grand Lobby area, booth N1246. Come...
View ArticleAn Alarm Soon to Sound. You Might Be Asleep.
I’m right now looking at a research chart that has stopped me cold. It’s part of the Fall-Winter 2017 Smart Audio report from NPR and Edison Research. Find it here:...
View ArticleFrom Data to Information to Wisdom: Putting Sensors to Work in the Factory...
The invention of the combustion engine was a significant technology innovation, but its transformative capacity was unleashed only by process innovation—the power of the assembly line. Together,...
View ArticleMore than 100 Days to Make a Decision
More than one-hundred days. That’s the average time–from inspiration to transaction–it takes a U.S. consumer to make a decision about buying home interior or exterior paint. As shared last week by...
View ArticleStart Small and Grow Your IIoT Predictive-Maintenance Solution
Manufacturers know that unscheduled downtime due to tool failure is costly. Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) solutions can help predict the maintenance needs of factory tools before they fail,...
View ArticleDigital Phenotyping and Healthcare
Healthcare is getting better and better at predicting patient outcomes. AI is getting more adept at interpreting and offering insight from diagnostic data. However, it’s not just vital statistics,...
View ArticleDeath on First Street. In My Little Town.
A few weeks ago, I was at a conference in the downtown of a small U.S. city. The subject was retail, and, specifically, the future of downtown retail. Brick-and-mortar retail. It was the day after the...
View ArticleTwo big ideas collide. Somewhere, the alarm clock rings.
Two recent papers and an article in The Economist have my brain spinning. Big ideas. Potential accelerants into this emerging world of voice-based commerce, which Business Insider Intelligence just...
View ArticleAnother alarm rings: Retail fulfillment in an on-demand world.
We now live in an on-demand world. What we want, when we want it. No waiting nor queuing. We can all agree that on-demand is re-shaping the media industry. Netflix revenues are up nearly 3X since 2013,...
View ArticleBrain Food for Today’s Cross-Channel Retailer. (That’s You Too.)
Every now and then you come across an analyst report that hits the bullseye with a "twaaannngg" that resonates long after the initial reading. Such is "The State of Online Commerce 2018: High Hopes"...
View ArticleAre You Shoppable?
The store is at ground zero of today’s Darwinian industry revolution. As we know, the store won’t be the same in years to come. We’re seeing significant changes in size, location, fulfillment...
View ArticleSK Telecom and Intel Demonstrate High-Performance Virtualized User Plane
With the arrival of 5G, network operators will be challenged on two fronts: Most obviously, their network will need to deliver performance that satisfies the potential of 5G's massive bandwidth, but...
View ArticleThree Things that Might Surprise You About Voice and Retail
There’s been lots of back-and-forth recently on the topic of Conversational Commerce. Earlier this month Priya Anand of The Information called hype on voice-based shopping. He compared enthusiastic...
View ArticleFPGA Innovation Day: A Master Class in Design Competitions
The word "masterpiece" is usually reserved for great paintings, literature, sculptures, and even architecture. You don't usually hear it used related to technology. Based on what I saw at last week's...
View Article5G and the Networked World: A New Horizon for Telcos
While there are many things that set humans apart from other organisms on Earth, our ability to network is one of the most intriguing. There is a long history of academic study in relation to...
View ArticleThe Future Sound of Commerce
Voice search. Voice commerce. You still need to twizzle the trend dial a bit to hear it, but once you do, you’ll find a signal that’s more clear and loud by the month. Discussions with leaders...
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