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.
In a post entitled On the Bandwagon: Supply Chain Orchestration, among other discussed topics was Gartner’s Four-Stage Maturity Model. The model (shown in the figure below) defines maturity in terms of organizational
Supply chain analyst Trevor Miles insists, “Collaboration can bring tremendous value to outsourced supply chains, such as we see in electronics and apparel.” [“Visibility is a Start. Collaboration is the Goal.” The
Bill McBeath, from ChainLink Research, asserts, “For many industries and companies, merely managing their own immediate suppliers is no longer sufficient. Someone has to step in and coordinate key activities across the
There are a number of descriptive modifiers being tossed about regarding supply chains — among them are: demand driven; efficient; intelligent; resilient; responsive; trusted; and agile. In this post, I would like
Supply chain analyst Lora Cecere reports that around 2003 a vision emerged “of an integrated end-to-end supply chain brought to life through extended ERP platforms.” She goes on to report, “It has
Mary Shacklett, founder and president of Transworld Data, writes, “Supply chain management is adopting cost cutting, optimization, speed of deployment, agility and real-time process information and automation, with 21st century software leading
According to Neil Deverill, a columnist for a magazine called Procurement Leaders, today’s procurement systems suffer from the same kind of industrial age silo thinking as a lot of other business sectors.
Last month the cover story in an issue of Bloomberg BusinessWeek asked, “Can two guys from Jersey outsell Amazon?” [“What Amazon Fears Most: Diapers,” by Bryant Urstadt, 7 October 2010]. Urstadt’s story
In a report entitled One Trillion Reasons, executives from prominent technology companies provided a series of recommendations to the U.S. Government on how it can save a trillion dollars over the next
A number of supply chain analysts believe that, to remain competitive, companies will eventually have to transform their supply chains from being “focused on trying to predict demand to … customer-driven chains
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