Category: Big Data

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 "Big Data" Dialogues, Part 7

In yesterday’s post, one of the things I discussed was a study written by McKinsey consultants Brad Brown, Michael Chui, and James Manyika. [“Are you ready for the era of ‘big data?”

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The "Big Data" Dialogues, Part 6

Steve Lohr, technology columnist for the New York Times, writes: “The quest to find decision-making insights in the modern data flood is certainly an appealing notion. After all, there is so much

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The "Big Data" Dialogues, Part 4

In Part 3 of these on-going dialogues about big data, I discussed a couple of software tools that are widely used to crunch large data bases: MapReduce and Hadoop. In that post,

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The "Big Data" Dialogues, Part 3

In Parts One and Two of these dialogues, I discussed the subject of big data from a supply perspective — specifically, the perspective of supply chain analyst Lora Cecere. Cecere keeps her

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Big Data Supply Chains

Supply chains come in all shapes and sizes. Supply chain complexity increases as it becomes larger or more geographically extended or more data intensive. Lora Cecere, a partner at Altimeter Group, recently

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Supply Chain Analytics

In a post entitled Trends in Supply Chain Software, I cited a blog post by Lora Cecere in which she identified a number of trends she is going to watch this year

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