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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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Famine in the Horn of Africa

The Horn of Africa has known its share of tragedies (including the long-running civil conflict in Somalia and war between Ethiopia and Eritrea). Those tragedies, however, are manmade and preventable. They begin

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Update on Rwanda’s Women

Fourteen years ago Rwanda suffered a massive, man-made humanitarian disaster as neighbors were driven to slaughter neighbors by malicious radio broadcasts and unchecked rumors. Although Rwanda itself has begun to move forward

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Fixing Fragile States

Globalization has both its proponents and opponents. Its proponents point to the fact that globalization has helped billions of people climb up the economic pyramid and out of poverty’s grasp. Opponents note

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SysAdmin Force comes of Age

Quick on the heels of Secretary of Defense Robert Gates’ talk about the need to rebalance the military (see my post Shocked and Awed), the Department of Defense has released a new

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More on Oil and Development

Most everyone is aware that because of the steep rise in oil prices, the world is in the midst of the greatest transfer of wealth in history. Politicians from countries dependent on

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More on Dealing with Failed States

In an earlier post entitled Dealing with Failed States, I discussed a book review published in The Economist about a volume written by Ashraf Ghani and Clare Lockhart [Fixing Failed States: A

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Global Poverty

Washington Post columnist Robert J. Samuelson wrote a column a few months ago in which he identified global poverty as mankind’s greatest moral challenge [“Rx for Global Poverty,” 28 May 2008]. He

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Poverty and Progress in Peru

When one thinks about emerging market tigers around the world, I imagine that Peru is not the first country that pops into one’s mind. Peru, according to The Economist, is South America’s

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