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Cossart's Cartography: Thinking in Numbers
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Mapping out thoughts and ideas on innovation and execution. Friday, June 5, 2009. I've started following this little start-up called Wolfram Alpha. A while back, let it fall off my radar screen for a bit and now have recently started poking around again after they've resurfaced (they've also made it into mainstream press with an article in The Economist. And I've been quite impressed with what I found. For those of you who haven't heard of them yet, think Google for all things numbers. Sci-fi sandbox gam...
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Cossart's Cartography: June 2009
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Mapping out thoughts and ideas on innovation and execution. Thursday, June 18, 2009. It happens quite often in large organizations where the getting -things-done-process is complex. The more steps involved the more potential bottlenecks and the more time you spend waiting. This downtime is costly for the company (who is paying for idle minds) and it's costly to the individual who feels frustrated by a lack of accomplishment. This could be something along the lines of Amazon's Mechanical Turk. I've starte...