Thanksgiving 2018
November 22, 2018
As we sit down to Thanksgiving dinner, letting our eyes devour the feast ahead of the actual eating, one of the things for which we should be thankful is the supply chain
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In this blog, we discuss cognitive computing and other cutting-edge technologies with a focus on supply chain management, autonomous decision-making, and innovation. Other topics of discussion include digital enterprise transformation, autonomous intelligent enterprises, emerging technologies, and global trade. Our goal is to advance the public discussion about how cognitive computing and other advanced technologies affect the world in which we live.
Bradd C. Hayes is the active editor of this blog.
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The Digital Supply Chain is more about Transformation than Technology
November 21, 2018
New technologies always open doors to new opportunities and new possibilities. Nevertheless, business consultants caution executives not to pursue the latest shiny toy without a good reason. Those consultants often repeat the
New Retail Business Models Support the Digital Path to Purchase
November 20, 2018
The rise of e-commerce and the consumer digital path to purchase has been a nightmare for some retailers from which they can’t awake. This has been especially true for large, traditional brick-and-mortar
Non-digital Enterprises on the Edge of Tomorrow
November 19, 2018
A few years ago, Tom Cruise and Emily Blunt starred in a science fiction film entitled “Edge of Tomorrow.” The marketing tagline for the movie was “Live. Die. Repeat.” In the film
Most Important U.S. Infrastructure to Build is within its Borders
November 16, 2018
Over the past few years, the U.S. economy has boomed and unemployment rates have fallen. While the full impact of current trade and immigration policies remain uncertain, one thing is certain —
Computational Linguistics and Natural Language Processing
November 15, 2018
The deeper we journey into the Information Age the more likely we are to find ourselves conversing with smart machines. For the technically-challenged among us, communicating with a computer can sound daunting.
Robotic Process Automation and the Intelligent Enterprise
November 14, 2018
Whether you call this the Information Age or the Digital Age, it is characterized by the unrelenting generation of massive amounts of data (aka Big Data). Companies often struggle to deal with
Beyond the Blockchain Hype
November 13, 2018
New technologies are always subject to hype and blockchain (aka distributed ledger) technology is no different. Matthew Lieberman (@MBLieberman), an Advisory Marketing Leader at PwC, writes, “I’m going out on a limb
Veterans Day 2018
November 12, 2018
This year’s Veterans Day celebration marks the 100th anniversary of the end of the First World War. Katie Mettler (@kemettler) reports, “[in 1918,] at the eleventh hour on the eleventh day of
Reaching Shoppers this Holiday Season
November 9, 2018
Holiday marketing is about to ramp up to its usual frenetic pace. Although online shopping has increased about 15% each year for the past few years, brick-and-mortar retailers still attract a fair
