Category: Business

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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Doing Business 2010

Every year around this time, the World Bank publishes its Doing Business Report. The report ranks 183 countries on how easy (or difficult) it is to do business there. Specifically, Doing Business

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Entrepreneurship: Of Fear and Faith

Almost everyone who writes about entrepreneurs and the enterprises they start discusses the fact that entrepreneurs are risk takers. Rajiv Dingra, an Indian entrepreneur who is the founder and CEO of WATConsult,

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The Lean Start-Up

I suspect that the dot.com bubble (and the collapse that it eventually suffered) will continue to provide grist for business school curricula for decades. Many of the start-ups that began during that

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Corruption and Kenya’s New Constitution

Last week, brave Kenyans flocked to the polls to approve a new constitution for one of Africa’s most corrupt nations [“Kenyans celebrate approval of new constitution,” by Sudarsan Raghavan, Washington Post, 6

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Entrepreneurs and Business Clusters

In a number of past posts about the Enterra Solutions® Development-in-a-Box™ approach, I’ve noted the importance of business clusters. In one of those posts, I discussed a concept called “geographical stickiness” in

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More about Innovative Companies

Each year BusinessWeek magazine publishes a list of companies considered to be the world’s most innovative. This year’s list was recently published [The 50 Most Innovative Companies, by Michael Arndt and Bruce

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