Category: Artificial Intelligence

In this blog, we discuss cognitive computing and other technologies with a focus on supply chain management and innovation. Other topics of discussion include digital enterprise transformation, marketing, the Internet of Things, and smart cities. 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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Trends 2016: Manufacturing

A couple of years ago, Jeff Dobbs, KPMG’s Global Sector Chair for Industrial Manufacturing, wrote, “The challenges of the past five years (largely characterized by global uncertainty, economic volatility, geo-political instability, shifting

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‘Purple People’ and Cognitive Computing

“The color purple,” writes Wayne Eckerson (@weckerson), “is formed by mixing two primary colors: red and blue. These colors symbolize strong, distinct, and independent perspectives.”[1] We’re all familiar with that imagery as

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Smart Cities and the Internet of Things

The Internet of Things (IoT) is sometimes referred to as the Industrial Internet because it is primarily an emerging machine-to-machine network that will eventually connect billions of devices. I tend to agree

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Trends 2016: Supply Chain

“The export-based economic model that we now take for granted,” assert analysts at Stratfor, “depends on supply chains.”[1] That statement is as blunt as is it profound. The statement is a global

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Jobs Sustainability and Artificial Intelligence

“Emerging technologies like industrial robots, artificial intelligence, and machine learning are advancing at a rapid pace,” observe Brookings Institution analysts Jack Karsten (@jtkarsten) and Darrell M. West (@DarrWest), “but there has been

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Trends 2016: Big Data

“The world around us is changing so rapidly,” writes Datafloq founder Mark van Rijmenam (@VanRijmenam), “that even the hype big data is already outdated. Big data is nothing new anymore and by

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Trends 2016: Business Intelligence and Analytics

“Business intelligence continues to be one of the fastest-moving areas in the enterprise,” writes David Weldon (@DWeldon646), Editor-in-chief at Information Management, “and the techniques that organizations are using to drive adoption and

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