Category: Globalization

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 Mittelstand Model Remains Desirable

In a post entitled Entrepreneurs, Medium-Sized Companies, and the Global Supply Chain, I discussed how mid-sized German companies (called Mittelstand) represent “80% of the world’s medium-sized market leaders” and have made Germany

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Demographics and Destiny

Demographic concerns differ widely depending on where you live. For example, two articles published in the Financial Times on the same day carried very different messages. In the first article, an op-ed

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China and Innovation

Over the past couple of years a number of articles about innovation in China have been written. The reason for this interest might be the fact that “between 2006 and 2009, the

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"Winning" Companies Improve Supply Chain Visibility

In American Shipper‘s third annual International Transportation Management Benchmark Study, author James Blaeser asserts that the best international transportation management (ITM) companies (whom he calls “the winners”) meet three key criteria. These

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Chasing China’s Consumers

“I keep stumbling across unswerving predictions that the future belongs to China,” writes Philip Stephens. [“The great middle class power grab,” Financial Times, 26 April 2012] Stephens isn’t referring to China’s growing

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Vertically Integrated Supply Chains

Andrew Parker and James Shotter report, “Airbus and Boeing are pushing their large suppliers to buy smaller ones because of fears that weaknesses in the supply chain could undermine the aircraft makers’

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U.S. Manufacturing at a Tipping Point

Last summer supply chain analyst Bob Ferrari asked the question, “Can an Economy Succeed Without Vibrant Manufacturing and Supply Chain Capabilities?” [Supply Chain Matters, 22 August 2011] His answer to that question

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