Posts Tagged ‘intelligence’

Outsourcing and avatars

Friday, September 10th, 2010

Today is Friday, so I will publish an article that has been sitting on my hard disk for some time.

It is about the future of outsourcing, now that our communication technology allows moderately reliable long-distance, high-speed communication worldwide.

My inspiration? Well, my own past experiences as a consultant, shuttled around sometimes to sit idle and wait, and activities in outsourcing and for outsourcing companies, plus experiments over the last few years in using remote tools (Skype and others) to deliver management consulting and startup support services.

And, for the “avatar” part, a posting on Facebook by IEEE, announcing an article to be published in the association’s official magazine, Spectrum, on physical avatars.

Pattern-based visual decision making

Friday, November 13th, 2009

I think that Edison said: innovation is 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration.

As over the next two years it is currently planned that I will not have time to do my usual consulting activities, beside for some activity online, mainly pro bono, I started over the last few weeks to share some material that I had planned to use in my services or with my partners.

This short preamble will be in each article.

If you manage to turn something to a practical use- good luck: you will have to do the 99% missing!

And now, we can move to today’s article.

XXI century managers who started using mobiles over the last few years, and are now just kids, will probably better equipped to interact with a visual approach.

GMN2009: Next- beyond the skull

Monday, May 25th, 2009

We moved from the concept of model, change, and project, to their application in ordinary business life, and to create something with relevant potential social impact, on both businesses and people- the Human Genome Project and the future brain mapping.

But all this covered only the “Genome, mind mapping” part of the title.

Neural networks are both a concept and a technology, and the impact is already visible in some decision-making activities, and in everyday technological products and services.

What could be a further development? What are going to be potential impacts on how we organize, structure, decide, act?

Again, some simple lessons derived by the computer between your ears.

And, I promise: I will not create any neologisms- I will use what is already available on the market- actually, in science.

This post is part of a series, first published in May 2009.

XXI Century libraries and search engines

Thursday, May 21st, 2009

XXI century encyclopedias and knowledge processing.

How Google, WolframAlpha, Wikipedia, and Eurostat process a query.

Or: models of knowledge processing and distribution.

Searching & Machine intelligence & Decisions

Tuesday, May 19th, 2009

How the addition of WolframAlpha as a search engine could complement Google services to create a new market.

Services? Access and structure knowledge. And a new form of knowledge management.

GMN2009: Games

Monday, May 18th, 2009

You want your model to work in reality, and therefore you have to assume that others have their own models.

It is a game. Like playing chess. Or the usual “prisoner’s dilemma”.

From models, we will move to the interaction between models- and between different decision paths within a model.

A down-to-earth introduction to the game theory.

This post is part of a series, first published in May 2009.

Memory & strategy

Friday, April 17th, 2009

On the relationship between memory, strategy, intelligence- and how learning has to be adapted to what you already know.