The Whizbang Weekly

  • Challenges and Opportunities for Cognitive Computing in Public Sector

    Challenges to Cognitive Computing in Public Sector The challenge in today’s world of improving or innovating government programs is that we have a broad array of information and process automation to co-ordinate.   Another major challenge of being in a data driven world is that information can be wrong, false, incorrect, out of date or inaccessible. …

    Campbell Robertson

  • What is Cognitive Computing and Why Should Program Executive Care ?

    What makes up Cognitive Computing Cognitive Computing is comprised of three main functional areas.  Which are: natural language processing, machine learning and hypotheses testing.  All three functions of cognitive computing combine to provide greater flexibility.  This helps address a broader array of business problems in public sector. Business problems that could not have been solved earlier.  Natural…

    Campbell Robertson

  • Contextual Computing

    Campbell Robertson

  • Update and Observations May 2014

    I have been meeting with government and healthcare organizations over the past few months and it apparent that there is a general frustration with existing work based technology and applications.  I have discussed this earlier; that we are technically “rich” in our personal lives and technically “poor at work. ERP, HRMS and CRM systems that…

    Campbell Robertson

  • What can iTunes and Evernote teach us of ECM

    I have presented this idea before.  People or organizations interested in using ECM technology to better manage and more importantly better find information always look at the shiny chrome or bells and whistles of the technology. However; the reality of what is needed in order to see the benefits of the technology become apparent. So…

    Campbell Robertson

  • Context 3.0

    Context 3.0     I did a search on Context 1.0 and 2.0 it appears to have been a project around creating context out of information.  I just wanted to introduce this subject and the idea.  IBM ECM talks about content in motion; how applications/solutions provide value to an organization by leveraging the foundational layer…

    Campbell Robertson