Category: Entrepreneurship

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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Promoting Innovation and Entrepreneurship

Michael Arndt, editor of BusinessWeek‘s innovation and design coverage, reminds us that “innovation requires taking risks, and these are risk-averse times.” The good news, however, is that tough times haven’t stopped innovative

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How to Kill a Business

In past posts, I have extolled the virtues of entrepreneurs and how important they are for creating jobs. I have also noted that not all entrepreneurs are good businessmen. A community is

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Profits and Idealism

I have written a number of posts about social entrepreneurism (see, for example, The Rise of the Social Entrepreneur, Venture Capitalist Philanthropy, and Global Social Entrepreneurs). Many of the people who have

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Inventors as Heroes

Luke Johnson, who runs a private equity firm called Risk Capital Partners, recently published an op-ed piece in the Financial Times in which he claims “Inventors are our greatest heroes” [2 September

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It’s All in Your Head

In a post I entitled The Amazing Mind, I referenced an op-ed piece by David Brooks that lauded the value of good old-fashioned traits like hard work and tenacity [“Genius: The Modern

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