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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Oil Fuels Kurdistan Economic Boom

With oil prices adversely affecting almost every economic sector, many people are calling for more exploration, more drilling, and more production. All of the so-called “easy oil,” has been found — with

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Reviving U.S. Manufacturing

In a recent post entitled “Development-in-a-Box™ at Home in America,” I focused on an op-ed piece by Thomas Friedman. In that piece, he chided U.S. politicians for not embracing policies that fostered

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Kristof Pleads for Books, not Bombs

New York Times‘ columnist Nicholas Kristof spends a lot of his time traveling to locations never seen by most globe-trotting tourists. Such ventures, however, provide him with a world view that can

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Creating a Sustainable Future

Nearly two decades ago, MIT professor Peter Senge wrote a best-selling business book that introduced the notion of “learning organizations.” [The Fifth Discipline, New York: Doubleday, 1990]. “As he describes it, a

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Looking for Jobs that Last

As the U.S. moves into the height of its presidential campaign season, the economy has taken center stage. Stones have been thrown at the North America Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) because detractors

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Poverty and Progress in Peru

When one thinks about emerging market tigers around the world, I imagine that Peru is not the first country that pops into one’s mind. Peru, according to The Economist, is South America’s

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IBM and Global Voluntary Service

A New York Times article a couple of months ago detailed an innovative IBM program that sends some of its most promising employees overseas to provide pro bono services in developing countries

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Doing Business in Iraq

The news yesterday that over 50 innocent people were killed in a suicide attack in Baghdad reminds us all how dangerous a place Iraq remains. Yet there is also good news. The

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