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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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The Cost of Crisis

When greedy and unscrupulous people brokered liar loans, bundled bad debts, and insured high risk derivatives without sufficient capital, they were thinking about how best to line their pockets with gold. I’m

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Capitalism and the Net Generation

For security reasons, President Obama was told he would have to relinquish his Blackberry — a challenge he has apparently overcome. But along with his new encrypted Blackberry came a new email

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Limiting the Spread of AIDS

During my discussions about Development-in-a-Box™, I have often made the point that frontier economies progress faster when they have achieved a few pre-conditions that help them attract foreign direct investment. One of

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Child Labor in the Developing World

Unicef reports that an estimated 158 million children aged 5-14 are engaged in child labor. That represents one in every six children in the world. Everyone agrees that the best place for

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Calculating the Worth of Cows

Everyone knows that the economy is bad and it appears that it will stay that way at least for a while. The editors of Defense News, a publication that focuses on the

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Mapping Africa

In a recent post entitled Testing the Rhetoric of Sustainability, I focused on an article from The Economist‘s special report prognosticating about the upcoming year [The World in 2009]. An article focusing

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Development and Corruption in Iraq

With the Iraqi parliament having recently approved a new security pact with the United States and a change of administrations just around the corner, there has been a lot of speculation about

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