Entries Tagged as 'Development'

Mortgage Mailbox

Problem:
Bank1 Mortgage wants to publish the internal newsletter on the Intranet.

Tags: Case Studies · Development · Online

Sword

Problem:
Brunswick needs to coordinate field teams to support bowling centers.

Tags: Case Studies · Development

Environmental Support System

Problem:
Bristol-Myers Squibb and Owens Corning need ISO 9000 and ISO 14000 compliance.

Tags: Case Studies · Development

The Line on Notes

Problem:
Consumers Energy wants to reach company employees that do not have Internet connectivity.

Tags: Case Studies · Development · Marketing · Software

Spark Wetlab Incubator

Problem:
Biomedical startups have special facilities needs, that are underserved by commercial Real Estate industry.  Lots of venture capital is wasted building dedicated labs to house single companies.
Solution:
Broker a deal with a shrinking pharmaceutical giant to take over some of their wetlab facilities, and turn it into a specialized business incubator.
Surprise:
Halfway through the process, the pharma […]

Tags: Accelerator · BioMed · Economic Development · Partnering · Strategy

Genentech

Problem:
Pharamceutical companies marshal Key Opinion Leaders (”KOLs”) to help disseminate clinical information.  Identifying, recruiting, engaging, and retaining KOLs presents unique challenges.
Solution:
Medical Marketing Epidemiology, a unique system for modeling up-and-coming and existing KOLs for their Expertise, Influence, Communication, and Loyalty.
Technologies used:
gMax, LAMP, PubMedXML, SmartyXML, xCelsius
Work  done on this project:
Conceived, architected, developed and delivered the system for […]

Tags: BioMed · Buzz · Case Studies · Research · Software

Medical Marketing Epidemiology

Problem:
Pharma marketers must engage Key Opinion Leaders to influence medical opinion, but KOL selection and management has come under increasing scrutiny.
Solution:
Use social networks and computational linguistics to identify emergent KOL characteristics from among a large pool of candidates, then tailor KOL engagements to the particular strengths of each incumbent.
Technologies:
Personal-URL survey-research campaign, computational linguistics, custom […]

Tags: BioMed · Buzz · Research · Scalability · Software · Strategy

Financial publications

Problem:
A leading international financial publication needs to boost the breadth and depth of engagement with its elite online audience of CFO’s and market-makers.
Solution:
Use Web 2.0 technologies to track, tailer, survey and optimize the online experience.
Technologies:
AJAX, PHP, Web Services
Engagement:
Developed a hosted service, integrated with existing publishing system.

Tags: Buzz · Documentation · Infrastructure · Research · Software

Secure Passenger ID System

Problem:
Homeland Security demands that airports and airlines know who their passengers really are.
Solution:
Photo-ID boarding pass, combined with biometric verification.
Technologies:
Visionics, BioAPI, VB.Net, touch-screen kiosk, mobile terminal.
Engagement:
Venture-level outsourcing of all engineering, marketing and operations. Vendor selection, financial modeling, and international travel.
Developed the SPIdS system, integrated with facial-capture camera, thumbprint, and magstripe/barcode passenger cards, with high-security color […]

Tags: Buzz · Partnering · Procurement · Research · Software · Strategy

Speech-based virtual assistant

Problem:
Salespeople hate SFA/CRM applications, but CFO’s rely on them.Solution:
Salespeople love their cellphones, so create a speech-based interface to SFA/CRM applications - call “Outlook” and talk to your calendar, address book, to-do list, …
Technologies:
Java, LAMP, Nuance, Telephony
Work done on this project:
Developed a human-transcription plug-in for a structured speech-to-text parsing engine - an early “Amazon Mechanical Turk” […]

Tags: Partnering · Procurement · Scalability · Software