Merry Christmas 2012
December 25, 2012
We have a lot to celebrate this holiday season. Among our blessings is the fact that we didn’t all perish last week as many pundits believed the Mayan calendar predicted we would
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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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North Pole Supply Chain and Risk Management Strategies
December 24, 2012
“Gartner likes to publish the Top 25 Supply Chains every year,” writes SAP’s Richard Howells. “Unfortunately, there’s one supply chain the esteemed analyst firm continues to overlook. And it just so happens
The Future of Supply Chain Management, Part 4
December 21, 2012
I love this time of year. Brave pundits sharpen their pencils and their wits predict what the coming year might hold. Such predictions always provide food for thought and often provide some
The Future of Supply Chain Management, Part 3
December 20, 2012
Bill Vaughn once said, “The groundhog is like most other prophets; it delivers its prediction and then disappears.” No supply chain forecaster that I know claims to be a prophet. They understand
The Future of Supply Chain Management, Part 2
December 19, 2012
In yesterday’s post, I discussed the first five of ten supply chain management predictions that Robert J. Bowman, managing editor of SupplyChainBrain, heard while attending the San Francisco Roundtable (SFRT) of the
The Future of Supply Chain Management, Part 1
December 18, 2012
Recently, Robert J. Bowman, managing editor of SupplyChainBrain, discussed some predictions about the future of supply chain management that he heard while attending the San Francisco Roundtable of the Council of Supply
Countries and Cities Need to Get Smarter About Natural Disasters
December 17, 2012
Erwann Michel-Kerjan, managing director of the Wharton Risk Center at the University of Pennsylvania, argues that “extreme events are on the rise” and, as a result, “governments must implement national and integrated
Big Data Dilemmas
December 14, 2012
We’ve all heard the old saying, “There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.” The adage has been variously attributed to the 19th-century British Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli and
McCormick® Flavor Forecast® 2013
December 13, 2012
The end of the old year and beginning of the new year traditionally finds pundits offering their predictions about what the future is likely to hold. When it comes to predicting what
Artificial Intelligence: Is there Peril in Deep Learning?
December 12, 2012
There have been cinematic depictions of evil robots ever since Fritz Lang’s 1927 science-fiction film entitled “Metropolis.” More recent depictions include HAL from “2001: A Space Odyssey” and skeletal robots from the
