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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2015 Predictions: Smart Cities

Predicting what cities of the future would look like has been a source of speculation for centuries. Isaac Asimov, the brilliant science fiction writer and renaissance man, once predicted that by 2014

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2015 Predictions: Manufacturing, Part 2

In Part 1 of this two-part series, I focused on the first five of ten predictions made by International Data Corporation (IDC) analysts concerning the future of manufacturing. [“IDC Reveals Worldwide Manufacturing

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2015 Predictions: Manufacturing, Part 1

James Dyson, the British inventor, designer, engineer, and entrepreneur most famous for his vacuums, once said, “Manufacturing is more than just putting parts together. It’s coming up with ideas, testing principles and

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How Ideas Spread and Take Hold, Part 1

“Good ideas and innovation travel easily — and far,” writes John Major. “Historically, these ideas spread along trade routes.” [“Silk Road: Spreading Ideas and Innovations,” Asia Society] As the title of his

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