It’s late Sunday night in the remote Swedish village of Viken and you suddenly realize you’re out of baby food. Local stores are closed, the weather is iffy and the odds of getting a delivery… Read More
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Amazon Started It
Amazon coined “the last mile” as the most important, complex and costly last leg of distribution. Their goal: speed of delivery within hours, or less. They also started free shipping. Both moves have had huge… Read More
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Kroger’s Little Car Experiment
Every now and then news crosses my desk that seems so unlikely that I suspect it might be a hoax. Of course, that happens with alarming frequency when it comes to political news, but in… Read More
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Handle with Care: A Roadmap to Successful Tech Adoption
I’ve been to enough trade shows and conferences to know how excited people get about new technology. Whatever’s freshly minted and has a couple of cool brand names attached to it is going to be… Read More
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Track Report: Walmart, Target, Macy’s, Kohl’s and Nordstrom
There are a lot of naysayers around these days, particularly aimed at the big box and department store models. And I would usually tend to side with them. In fact, many times I have been… Read More
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Invasion of the Homebots
How many of you are following the conversations between Vladimir and Estragon? I doubt many have the time to get involved in yet another inane online activity. But about 400,000 people have tuned into twitch.tv… Read More
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Facebook and Creepy Tech
I spoke to a class of about 20 millennials this week at FIT (Fashion Institute of Technology). When I got to the part where I was speaking to the choir about an AT Kearney study… Read More
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The Fall of the Berlin Wall, Redux
The world of information gathering and what we do with the data is in turmoil. This article is my attempt to provide context to this very necessary debate. In November of 1989 the Berlin Wall… Read More
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Insights, Innovation and Conjecture from SXSW Interactive 2018
The key learnings from SXSW 2018, which took place in Austin, Texas in mid-March, were both exciting and challenging. The interactive festival, which has become a thought leadership institution rivaling TED and Davos, is now… Read More
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Loving LiketoKnow.it
For a long time, Rachel M. had neither the time nor inclination to stay up-to-date on fashion trends. Always too busy with work and school to read magazines or actively seek out blog posts for… Read More
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