Category: Base of the Pyramid

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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Development at Home

Normally when I write about development I discuss development in impoverished countries. The so-called Great Recession, however, has shed light on challenges faced by developed countries as well. Finding solutions to those

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Roads to Prosperity

Roads have enjoyed an important metaphorical (as well as actual) place in man’s history. Roads characterized the greatness of the Roman Empire (e.g., “all roads lead to Rome”). Roads remind us that

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Rebuilding Haiti

By now you’ve probably heard about the devastating earthquake that leveled Haiti yesterday. “The quake, with a magnitude estimated at 7.0, caused the collapse of the National Palace, leveled countless shantytown dwellings

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Innovation, Development, and India

Professor C.K. Prahalad, who became famous for asserting that profits could be made by selling products and services to the world’s poorest people (i.e., those at the bottom of the pyramid), believes

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