Category Archives: Archive

Visa Debit rolls out in Canada

Posted on October 25, 2010 by Thomas Purves

This is a project I’ve been working on and involved with in one capacity or another for a long time, including building the first business case and running the product development for CIBC as far back as 2005. More on … Continue reading →

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Kodak update: when all else fails, sue the iceberg

Posted on October 7, 2010 by Thomas Purves

A lovely visualization by Design language that’s been making rounds connects a couple dots from recent posts on this blog. Somewhat randomly, I had been musing both about how Kodak had the foresight to invent a “consumer” digital camera 35 … Continue reading →

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The dawn of mobile in retail

Posted on September 28, 2010 by Thomas Purves

One big idea I’ve been focused on a fair bit lately is what I call “Augmented Retail”. Augmented retail is about the potentially disruptive outcome of the inevitable convergence of mobile technology, ubiquitous connectivity and retail. Mobile technology is not … Continue reading →

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