Category: Connectivity

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 Globally Integrated Job Market

The recent terrorist attacks in the United Kingdom are sending shockwaves across the Asian work force, especially among the Indian medical community which has never had past difficulty placing workers in foreign

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Culture and Connectivity

Many of those who protest the advance of globalization believe they are speaking for those who can’t speak for themselves (the disconnected, but apparently content, people in remote reaches of the world).

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The Medici Effect and New Design

One of my early posts [The Medici Effect] discussed Frans Johansson’s interesting book The Medici Effect: Breakthrough Insights at the Intersection of Ideas, Concepts, and Cultures, which focuses on the value of

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Reconnecting with the World

Washington Post columnist David Ignatius writes, “When foreign policy gurus Henry Kissinger, Zbigniew Brzezinski and Brent Scowcroft all start saying the same thing, it’s time to pay attention.” [“Wise Advice: Listen, and

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Where the Road Ends

The USA Today published a special report by Paul Wiseman entitled “The perils of carving a path to the Taliban’s front door” [20 June 2007]. What really drew me in was the

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A New Hotline with China

In a move reminiscent of the Cold War, the Pentagon has announced plans to establish a crisis hotline between Washington and Beijing [“U.S., China Aim to Mend Ties,” by Walter Pincus, Washington

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The Economist and the Evernet

Last month I wrote a post on Ubiquitous Sensors and the Evernet. The “Evernet” is a term I borrowed from my colleague Tom Barnett. The Economist now has an article on what

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