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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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Small Loans Attract Big Players

Last April I wrote a post based on a Nicholas Kristof column that discussed how average people can get involved in providing microloans to entrepreneurs in the developing world [Financing the Poor].

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Standards and Aid

When I have discussed  Development-in-a-Box™, I have always stressed the importance of standards and best practices. If you are going to jump-start a developing economy and get it connected to the developed

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Others on the Edge of Globalization

The cover of 28 May 2007 issue of BusinessWeek asks the provocative question, “What’s the Most Extreme Emerging Market on Earth?” As my recent posts on Kurdistan have indicated, I believe there

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Oportunidades At Home and Abroad

Last November I wrote a post about eight Programs That Fight Poverty selected by Tina Rosenberg a New York Times editorial board member. Number four on her list was a Mexican program

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Malaria-Fighting Mosquitoes

On several occasions I have written about efforts to eliminate malaria in developing countries. Malaria kills more than a million people annually, most of them African children under the age of five.

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Financing the Poor

As an entrepreneur, I understand the importance of funding and know how difficult it is to obtain. When I look for funding, I’m generally looking for millions of dollars whereas the poor

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Carter’s War on Worms

New York Times op-ed columnist, Nicholas Kristof, spent time with former President Jimmy Carter in Ethiopia where the former president is working to eliminate river blindness [“Let’s Start a War, One We

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Update on Connecting the Poor

Last December I wrote a post about effort to get computers in the hands of students currenly living in poverty [Connecting the Poor]. The post was about a non-profit project called One

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