Is the Globalized World Flat or Mountainous?
New York Times’ columnist Tom Friedman has argued that the “world is flat” as a result of trade liberalization and technology (i.e., business people around the world are finally playing on a
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.
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New York Times’ columnist Tom Friedman has argued that the “world is flat” as a result of trade liberalization and technology (i.e., business people around the world are finally playing on a
Even before the coronavirus swept around the world, the future of globalization was being questioned. In Part One of this article, I examined some of the reasons pundits are declaring an end
When media outlets like The Economist and Financial Times start publishing eulogies for globalization, you know something has changed on the world stage. Economist journalists bluntly ask, “Has covid-19 killed globalization?”[1] They
According to Tom Derry, CEO of the Institute for Supply Management, “There’s almost no industry sector — and when I say that, I mean manufacturing and nonmanufacturing — that isn’t reliant on
One of the things driven home by the Covid-19 outbreak is the global nature of supply chains, particularly supply chains linking China and the United States. Tom Derry, CEO of the Institute
Columbus Day is a U.S. federal holiday commemorating the date when Christopher Columbus first set foot in the Americas. Because Columbus and colonization remain controversial subjects, Columbus Day is not as widely
“Globalization’s opponents in the emerging markets and developing countries have been joined by tens of millions in the advanced countries,” writes Joseph E. Stiglitz (@JosephEStiglitz), a Nobel laureate and a professor at
“The historic ‘Brexit’ vote was about much more than a small island’s fear of immigration and a remote European government,” writes Deborah Doane (@doaneatlarge). “It was a backlash against globalisation itself. And
“Resiliency,” writes Aaron Burman, “has become an overused buzzword. Every field seems to have their own need to talk about being resilient.”[1] Burman may be correct about resiliency being a buzzword, but
The food supply chain has received a lot of attention over the past few years — not all of that attention has been good. For example, on the supplier side of the
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