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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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Emerging Market Consumers, Part 2

In yesterday’s post, I discussed the growing amount of wealth that is being generated in emerging market countries. I also pointed out that most of that wealth is going to be generated

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Emerging Market Consumers, Part 1

In several past posts, I’ve made the assertion that economic progress generally precedes political transformation. The logic for that is fairly straight forward. When a population moves out of poverty and into

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Women in Business

In a post entitled Minorities and Entrepreneurism, I wrote, “Although women are not minorities per se, they have been in the minority when it comes to starting businesses that make it big.”

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Selling Your Business

Entrepreneurs come in all flavors. Some entrepreneurs start a company with the intention of making it their life’s work. Others start businesses with the intention of making them profitable then selling them

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Minorities and Entrepreneurism

A year ago, New York Times‘ columnist Thomas Friedman wrote: “You’ve heard that saying: As General Motors goes, so goes America. Thank goodness that is no longer true. I mean, I wish

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Where Venture Capital is Flowing

Last October Pui-Wing Tam and Cari Tuna reported that California’s “Silicon Valley’s start-up economy [had] quietly broadened beyond information technology. It now includes a growing cadre of bioscience and ‘clean technology’ firms,

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Boomer Entrepreneurs

In a post entitled Entrepreneurs: Old and Young, I cited an article by Stefan Theil in which he claimed that “older entrepreneurs have higher success rates when they start companies” than their

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