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IBM Watson at your service: New Watson breakthrough transforms how brands engage today’s connected consumers — from IBM.com
Delivered from the cloud and into the hands of mobile consumers, Watson provides faster, personalized service for smarter commerce; top brands tap Watson’s ability to crunch big data and provide fast, personalized advice for empowered consumers

Also see:

How cognitive technologies can help transform the way companies and consumers connect — from asmarterplanet.com by Manoj Saxena

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IBM’s Watson tries to learn…everything — from spectrum.ieee.org by Steven Cherry
What happens when Watson learns a million databases? RPI students and faculty hope to find out.

Tagged with: 21st century • AI • analytics • business • corporate / business world • cost of getting an education • Daniel S. Christian • data mining • game-changing environment • IBM • learning from the living [class] room • machine-to-machine communications • Mobile learning • MOOCs • tools • vendors

5 ways to build a future leader [Biro]

On 05/13/2013, in business, corporate / business world, education, education reform, future, higher education, K-12 related, leadership, by Daniel Christian

5 ways to build a future leader — from forbes.com by Meghan Biro

Excerpt:

This skills shortage threatens to undermine all the positive advances in talent recruitment and management and this is alarming to me.

Companies just can’t find the people they need. And at the same time, they’re cutting their recruiting and development budgets, expecting new hires to hit the ground running.

Tagged with: business • corporate / business world • education • education reform • future • higher education • K-12 • leadership

For Ivy League grads, tech trumps Wall Street [Korosec]

On 04/29/2013, in business, career development, entrepreneurship, innovation, technology (general), workplace, by Daniel Christian

For Ivy League grads, tech trumps Wall Street — from SmartPlanet.com by Kirsten Korosec

Excerpt:

A wave of young professionals–as well as recent grads–are bypassing (or leaving) Wall Street to take jobs within the high-tech sector, reported the Wall Street Journal. Nowhere is this trend more evident than in New York City, where employments in securities and banking fell 10 percent to 163,600 jobs in the past five years. Over the same time period, high-tech employments rose 10 percent to 275,600 by mid-2010, according to data from the New York State Department of Labor, reported the WSJ.

Tagged with: business • career development • corporate / business world • entrepreneurship • innovation • technology (general) • workplace

Very clever way to re-open a renovated space! The Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam.

On 04/18/2013, in business, creativity, drama/theater, by Daniel Christian

Published on Apr 1, 2013
13 april gaat het Rijksmuseum open en komen Het melkmeisje, Jan Steen, De Nachtwacht en alle andere helden weer terug. Dit is wat er gebeurt als ze plotseling opduiken in een nietsvermoedend winkelcentrum. En omdat we de helden zo lang hebben moeten missen maakt hoofdsponsor ING het mede mogelijk dat de toegang tot het museum die dag van 12:00 tot 00:00 gratis is. Ga naar http://www.ing.nl/rijksmuseum.

Tagged with: business • drama/theater • storytelling

Digization, sole growth engine for Europe’s creative industries? [Vaquier]

On 04/16/2013, in business, creativity, digital textbooks, Europe, music, publishing, television, UK, by Daniel Christian

Digization, sole growth engine for Europe’s creative industries? — from inaglobal.fr/en/… by Nicolas Vaquier
[NEWS] According to a recently published study entitled The Digital Future of Creative U.K., digitization is the sole growth engine for Europe’s creative industries.
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Excerpt from Conclusion:

Finally, the study delivers conclusions for the whole of the creative industries and forecasts for their future. It notes that with the fragmentation of media consumption, advertising money is now divided between a number of players. While total advertising revenues have climbed, individual companies can no longer expect profits to be as high as they were in the past. Online advertising is still a challenge, and the monetization of already existing content will not be enough to meet it. The Digital Future of Creative U.K. furthermore highlights the complementarity of digital and analog, refuting the idea of one technology’s cannibalization of the other, using the example of catch-up television.

The study announces the transformation of the value creation chain. The horizontal integration of production, distribution and marketing intermediaries that prevailed in the traditional system will be dissolved by more profitable digital alternatives, diminishing the importance of these intermediaries. The study predicts that the concept of “chain” will furthermore be replaced by that of a “network” of relations, with consumption and participation at its heart. The rise in the number of players and the lowering of entry barriers will thus allow for greater quantity as well as relevance of content on offer.

Tagged with: business • creativity • Europe • games • music • publishing • TV • UK

Tagged with: business • data mining • future • strategy

Coming this fall: Steelcase’s Gesture Chair

On 03/22/2013, in 21st century, business, corporate / business world, corporate universities / corporate training, health, higher education, K-12 related, learning spaces, smart classrooms, vendors, by Daniel Christian

Tagged with: 21st century • biology • business • corporate / business world • corporate training / universities • health • higher education • K-12 • learning spaces • smart classrooms • vendors

Items re: multi-screen media — eventually this trend/convergence enables “Learning from the Living [Class] Room”

On 03/15/2013, in 21st century, 24x7x365 access, A/V -- audio/visual, analytics, Artificial Intelligence / Machine Learning / Deep Learning / Algorithms, business, convergence, corporate / business world, corporate universities / corporate training, cost of getting a degree, dangers of the status quo, Daniel S. Christian, digital learning, digital storytelling, digital textbooks, digital video, disruption, education technology, educational games / serious games, elearning, emerging technologies, engagement / engaging students, Europe, game-changing environment, global / globalization, human-computer interaction (HCI), innovation, intelligent systems, intelligent tutoring, interactivity, internet, languages and translation, learning agents, learning ecosystem, Learning from the Living [Class] Room, learning preferences, machine-to-machine communications, media/film, mirroring and/or multiple devices, mobile learning, mobile technologies, MOOCs -- Massive Open Online Courses, multimedia, Near Field Communication (NFC), New "Amazon.com" of Higher Education, new business models, new media literacies, online learning, online media, online tutoring, passions, personalized/customized learning, play, real-world assignments, second screen apps, smart/connected TV, social learning / networks, social media, society, storytelling, streams of content, student-related, technologies for your home, telepresence, television, training / L&D, transmedia, trends, ubiquitous learning, UK, using teams, vendors, videoconferencing, virtual field trips, virtual K-12 schools, Virtual Reality (VR) / worlds / learning, virtual tutoring, vision/possibilities, web-based collaboration, webinars, by Daniel Christian

PayWizard launches first dedicated payment and subscriber management solution for TV and media industry — from PayWizard

Excerpt:

London, 21 February 2013 – PayWizard, specialists in payment and subscription management, has launched the TV and media industry’s first dedicated, end to end payment and subscription solution. The integrated solution brings together a strong heritage in the Pay-TV market with a deep understanding of the challenges TV operators and media companies face in monetising the multiplatform world.

Using its award-winning modular Payment and Subscription platform, PayWizard combines payment processing, intelligent subscriber management technology and real-time customer service operations to tailor-make solutions that enhance the consumer experience across all screens.

With 16.8 billion video-enabled devices set to be in the global marketplace by 2015, content owners are facing the challenge of enhancing existing services while creating compelling experiences that embrace new routes to market. PayWizard’s comprehensive set of products and services has enabled clients, such as the UK’s biggest commercial broadcaster, ITV, to address these commercial challenges by enabling new monetisation strategies to drive revenue and profitability.

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Multi-screen – are we there yet? — from blog.adbglobal.com
Digital Home World Summit — London, UK — June 18-19, 2013

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Massive Open Online Course offered by UMass Boston to feature the first adaptive MOOC technology
Enables students to be taught according to individual learning strategies

Excerpt from email:

(Boston, MA) – February 27, 2013 – If you’ve ever been in a course and struggled because you just aren’t “getting it,” the reason might be less your ability than the way in which the material is being presented.

New technology is now allowing online course environments to analyze how individual students learn, customizing instruction to individualized learning strategies. The College of Advancing and Professional Studies (CAPS) at the University of Massachusetts Boston has teamed up with USDLA 21st Century Sponsor, Synaptic Global Learning (SGL), to use the new learning management system, Adaptive Mobile Online Learning (AMOL), to deliver the first adaptive Massive Online Open Course (a-MOOC) ever offered. The course launches March 25.

Tagged with: A/V • AI • analytics • business • convergence • corporate / business world • Daniel S. Christian • etmooc • learning from the living [class] room • mirroring / multiple devices • new business models • second screen apps • trends • TV • UK • vendors

IBM CEO predicts three ways technology will transform the future of business [Goudreau]

On 03/11/2013, in 21st century, analytics, business, corporate / business world, data related items, future, social learning / networks, technology (general), by Daniel Christian

IBM CEO predicts three ways technology will transform the future of business — from forbes.com by Jenna Goudreau

Virginia Rometty

Data analytics will revolutionize decision-making
The social network will drive value
Consumer segments will cede to the individual
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“The greatest contribution of this shift,” Rometty concluded,
“is that it will force every entity to become an authentic organization.”

Tagged with: 21st century • analytics • business • corporate / business world • data mining • future • social networking • technology (general)

Microsoft releases next-generation Office 365 for business and education

On 02/28/2013, in business, cloud-based computing / apps / other cloud-related, Microsoft, productivity / tips and tricks, tools, by Daniel Christian

Microsoft releases next-generation Office 365 for business and education

Excerpt:

REDMOND, Wash. — Feb. 27, 2013 — Microsoft Corp. today announced worldwide availability of a major new update to its Microsoft Office 365 services for business. Microsoft’s most complete Office cloud service to date has new features and offerings tailored to the needs and budgets of small, medium-size and large organizations. In addition to updated Microsoft Lync Online, Microsoft Exchange Online and Microsoft SharePoint Online services, business users can now get the rich Office applications they are familiar with, on up to five devices, delivered as an always up-to-date cloud service. Office 365 features enhanced enterprise social capabilities with SharePoint and Yammer today, and Lync-Skype connectivity for presence, instant messaging (IM), and voice by June. The new Office 365 service is available today in 69 markets and 17 languages and will be available in an additional 20 markets and 16 languages in the second quarter of this year.

Tagged with: business • cloud-based computing / apps / other cloud-related • Microsoft • productivity • tools

The Master List of the Collaborative Economy: Rent and Trade Everything [Owyang]

On 02/25/2013, in business, collaboration, corporate / business world, innovation, marketplaces, new business models, strategy, by Daniel Christian

The Master List of the Collaborative Economy: Rent and Trade Everything — from web-strategist.com by Jeremiah Owyang

Excerpt:

[Collaborative Economy Defined: A digital system that manages the coordination of buyers and sellers who offer or exchange used products and remnant services]

Tagged with: business • collaboration • exchanges • innovation • marketplaces • new business models • strategy • web-based collaboration

Ecosystem economics, strategies for getting your app discovered, and a Developer Economics Portal — from visionmobile.com

On 02/05/2013, in Apple, business, cloud-based computing / apps / other cloud-related, computer science, economics, Google, Microsoft, mobile learning, mobile technologies, platforms, programming, workplace, by Daniel Christian

The new basis of competition and the superiority of ecosystem economics — from visionmobile.com by Michael Vakulenko

Also see:

The changing landscape of app discovery — from visionmobile.com by Andreas Pappas

Also see:

Also see the following infographic from
OnlinePhDPrograms.com

Tagged with: Apple • business • computer science • corporate / business world • economics/business • Google • Microsoft • Mobile learning • mobile technology • platforms • programming • workplace

Tomorrow’s world: A guide to the next 150 years [BBC]

On 01/07/2013, in business, career development, computer science, corporate / business world, curriculum, future, political science, professional development, science, society, technology (general), workplace, by Daniel Christian

From DSC:
Some potential scenarios of our future. Are there implications for how we educate today’s students? For our curriculum?

Tagged with: business • career development • corporate / business world • curriculum • political science • professional development • society • technology (general) • workplace

Also see the following items from Genius:

The New Consumer Agenda:
From authentic collaboration to small indulgences … what consumers want in 2013 and beyond, and how brands are responding.

Marketing Trends 2013+:
From black marketing to crowd creatives, brand gaming to urban formats, solomo and diffusion … what will be big in marketing in 2013

Additional notes from DSC:

With thanks going out to Mr. Jim Woods (@hyperinnovation) on twitter for this resource
The wave-related graphics above are very appropriate for our times — and I’d rather be surfing the waves then being crushed by them!

Tagged with: 21st century • business • career development • Connectivism • corporate / business world • creativity • economics/business • experimentation • game-changing environment • generational differences • global • innovation • leadership • marketing/social marketing • new business models • participation • passions • personal learning networks (PLNs) • social learning • social media • web-based collaboration • workplace

An enhanced version of the “Article of the Future” should be the textbook of today (if it isn’t already)

On 11/21/2012, in business, chemistry, computer science, digital learning, digital textbooks, faculty, innovation, mathematics, MBA, multimedia, productivity / tips and tricks, psychology, research, writing, by Daniel Christian

Also see:

What an academic article of the future should look like — from digitopoly.org by Joshua Gans

From DSC:
I’m also reminded of what I’d like to see in a digital textbook — a series of “layers” that people — with various roles and perspectives on the content — could use to comment on and annotate an article:

Tagged with: business • chemistry • cognitive psychology / computing • computer science • Connectivism • digital learning • digital textbooks • faculty • innovation • journals • math • MBA • multimedia • productivity • research • scholarly writing

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For Ivy League grads, tech trumps Wall Street [Korosec]

Very clever way to re-open a renovated space! The Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam.

Digization, sole growth engine for Europe’s creative industries? [Vaquier]

The Master List of the Collaborative Economy: Rent and Trade Everything [Owyang]

Ecosystem economics, strategies for getting your app discovered, and a Developer Economics Portal — from visionmobile.com

Tomorrow’s world: A guide to the next 150 years [BBC]

An enhanced version of the “Article of the Future” should be the textbook of today (if it isn’t already)

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