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Blame Big Data for CVS’s endless miles of receipts

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Buy a single item at CVS and you can end up with a 4'-6'-long ribbon of register tape, a kind of orgy of coupons and come-ons. The phenomenon of the farcically long CVS receipt goes back to 2008 or so, when the company started buying…

How Information Gives You Competitive Advantage

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Michael E. PorterVictor E. Millar HBR Harvard Business Review FROM THE JULY 1985 issue The information revolution is sweeping through our economy. No company can escape its effects. Dramatic reductions in the cost of obtaining,…

Facebook knows Facebook isn’t the future. Is it too late to build a better network?

By Jacob Kastrenakes@jake_k  Mar 7, 2019, 10:15am ESTSHARE Five paragraphs into the monster blog post that Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg published yesterday afternoon, he makes a damning, strangely understated admission:…

iPhone 11 Rumors and News: Release Date, Price and Features

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For 2019, Apple is expected to continue with the same iPhone lineup as 2018. This means we are going to see three different iPhones catering to three different price points. The iPhone XR successor, iPhone XI (iPhone 11),…

Here’s everything Apple just announced at the 2019 WWDC Keynote

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Apple  kicked off its annual Worldwide Developer Conference in San Jose this morning with a two-and-a-half hour keynote, showing off everything the company has been working on for the past many months. Want to know everything…

Driverless cars can only take you so far. This is how smarter cities are being built

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John R. Quain@jqontechPOSTED ON11.5.18 - 3:00AM PSTEMERGING TECH In the sunny climes of Tel Aviv, Israel, the Smart Mobility Summit, held from October 29 to 30, brought together city administrators from across the globe, research…

Would you change your password if you knew your information is on the Dark Web?

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Excel Office Services got their start selling copiers. For years we bragged about how our copiers were secure. Then one day it dawned on us, our clients do not necessarily care that their copier is secure, what they care about, is that their…

Why Employee Experience is Key to Digital Transformation.

An Interview with Fouad ElNaggar By Sapho | Sep 5, 2018  PHOTO: SHUTTERSTOCK When Fouad ElNaggar talks about employee engagement, it makes you wonder why more companies aren’t lining up to pour all their resources…

Most Companies Aren’t Ready for California’s Tough New Privacy Law

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http://fortune.com/2019/03/19/companies-california-privacy-law/

Excel Office Pays to Read!

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EOS had its first book club meeting of 2019.  We pay employees to read.  We had a great dialog about how we can grow and scale our business to be a $100 million.  It all starts with people who don't want to be good, they want to be great. #relentless…