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Facebook’s Messenger Bot Store could be the most important launch since the App Store #retail #bot

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If Facebook announces the “Messenger Bot Store” at F8, as many predict, it would be arguably the most consequential event for the tech industry since Apple..

Source: Facebook’s Messenger Bot Store could be the most important launch since the App Store

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We Are Coming for You, Tesla, And You, Too, Google, Says Hacker Hotz #AI #Engineering #Leadership

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Hacker George Hotz is mobbed after telling SXSW he's coming for Tesla, GM, and Google.

The legendary hacker George Hotz, known by his nom de guerre “geohot,” who first came to public attention by hacking Apple’s (AAPL) first iPhone, spoke this morning at the South by Southwest conference about taking on Tesla’s (TSLA) self-driving car initiatives with his own garage efforts, a talk titled “I built a better self-driving car than Tesla.”By the end of the talk, it was clear he had numerous targets, including Alphabet’s (GOOGL) self-driving car efforts, despite mighty respect for the search giant.Hotz’s achievement, rigging up home made parts to an Acura ILX to make it self-driving, first came to prominence with an article in mid-December by Bloomberg’s Ashlee Vance. Judging by the thunderous applause at the end of the session, and the gaggle of those crowding Hotz to ask questions, Hotz made some converts and fans.

Source: We Are Coming for You, Tesla, And You, Too, Google, Says Hacker Hotz – Tech Trader Daily – Barrons.com

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Must Read: “The @Amazon Tax” via @Stratechery #Retail #Transporation #Cloud #Everything

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Amazon is building a lot of businesses that look like AWS: taxes on major industries that work to everyone’s benefit. The reason, though, is that AWS is a lot like Amazon itself.

Source: The Amazon Tax – Stratechery by Ben Thompson

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@DeepMindAI wants to “solve intelligence.” #AI #Prediction

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Beating Go was just the start — DeepMind has designs on healthcare, robots, and your phone…

Read More: DeepMind founder Demis Hassabis on how AI will shape the future | The Verge

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Accepted! Harvard Business School’s Disruptive Strategy program…

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Today I am super excited to have received this note.

“We are thrilled to offer you acceptance to Harvard Business School’s Disruptive Strategy program. We are looking forward to having you join our community of learners who are seeking an immersive and rigorous experience.

Disruptive Strategy will be as rewarding as it is rigorous. We look forward to not only having you dig-in and learn in our environment, but also actively engage and share unique ideas and experiences with your peers.”

Looking forward to posting what I learn.

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What’s Next in Computing? via @cdixon #AI #iot #mobile #insight #prediction #trends 

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Tech product cycles are mutually reinforcing interactions between platforms and applications. New platforms enable new applications, which in turn make the new platforms more valuable, creating a positive feedback loop… We can try to understand and predict the product cycle by studying the past and extrapolating into the future.

Read More (via Chris Dixon): What’s Next in Computing?

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Just submitted for @shoporg 2016: “Programmatic Commerce: Why Unified Commerce is so important.” #retail #insights #wishmeluck

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Unified Commerce [formerly known as Omnichannel] is no longer a nice to have, it is a foundational imperative…but why? Some may say Unified Commerce will provide differentiation and help a retailer meet customer needs and expectations; I believe there is something much greater happening, and if retailers do not take notice their firms could lose complete relevancy in the coming years.

With the advancements being made in artificial intelligence, shoppers will be less and less likely the “buyer.” Virtual private assistants will take over more and more of the routine purchasing decisions. I call this “Programmatic Commerce.” During this session, we will discuss this concept and how it fits into the near term achievement of Unified Commerce. Unified Commerce is just a milestone, not the end game.

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What will humans do when machines can do almost everything? #AI #Robotics #jobs #WhatIsWork #economics

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Artificial intelligence experts predict that intelligent and semi-intelligent autonomous systems — such as self-driving cars and autonomous drones — “will march into our society” in the next two to three years, with driving expected to be fully automated in 25 years, a panel of experts said at a 13 February news briefing at the 2016 AAAS Annual Meeting.

Source: Increasing Use of Autonomous Systems Could Threaten Jobs

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What other retailers have been reluctant to concede: E-commerce isn’t as profitable as brick-and-mortar stores. #retail #leadership

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Michael Kors just admitted what other retailers have been reluctant to concede: E-commerce isn’t as profitable as brick-and-mortar stores.

Source Bloomberg Gadfly: Michael Kors and E-Commerce Reality

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Digital Transformation Requires Total Organizational Commitment #Retail #Disruption #digital #leadership

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Wherever you turn, businesses are facing tremendous disruptive pressure. What’s interesting is that the theory about how firms should be dealing with this..

Source TechCrunch: Digital Transformation Requires Total Organizational Commitment

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So now you call it Unified Commerce… #retail #trend #ItsMarketing

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Unified Commerce  to me appears to be when one uses an OMS as it should be used, as the single source of the truth. The truth for customer, product, inventory, pricing & promotion, tax, auth transactions, and shipping. In this case, existing enterprise systems are integrated in to the OMS using an enterprise bus like IBM Integration Bus (IIB) that does the enterprise systems to OMS data translations.

I guess now, one would say the ideal of  “OmniChannel” is using chewing gun and duct tape to integrate disparate systems, so in that case there may as well be more than one source of the truth.

However, it’s all marketing spin, as the practitioners I know and worked with implementing globally distributed OMS/EOM systems will think the former was always the way…and would have called it OmniChannel.

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Why Big Companies Keep Failing: The Stack Fallacy #innovation #disruption #retail #leadership by @anshublog

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This is a great read and thought on how empathy needs to be an foundational part of any successful advance in to new products areas, which are enabled by your current core offering. Stack fallacy has caused many companies to attempt to capture new markets and fail spectacularly. When you see a database company thinking apps are easy, that’s Stack fallacy…

Read More: Why Big Companies Keep Failing: The Stack Fallacy

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