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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Tribalism, Kenya, and AFRICOM

Anyone who has been following international news has watched or read with dismay the rising violence in Kenya following presidential elections. The Kikuyu tribe, which has long been the dominant tribe in

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Fertilizing to End Famine

One of the continuing debates in the environmental world is about the use of fertilizer. Some environmentalists lament that fertilizers are actually killing the land they are supposed to enrich and that

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Economic Emigration

In a recent post, I discussed the dark side of the global commute as it is unfolding in Kurdistan [Kurdistan and the Global Commute]. The focus of that post was workers promised

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Can Greed Save Africa?

In an earlier post, I discussed the John Templeton Foundation’s roundtable discussion about aid and Africa [Will Money Solve Africa’s Problems?]. The answer to that question was a qualified “no.” Africa certainly

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Kurdistan and the Global Commute

I have written several posts about the global commute (which involves the movement of people and jobs around the globe). In times past, the only way to match jobs and people was

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Eradicating Polio

American’s of my generation and younger don’t really remember the fear of contracting polio that gripped much of the country before the early 1960s. That’s because the disease was pretty much eradicated

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Laptops in Peru

I’d like to end the year on an up-note. There are plenty of stories to cause concern — from the death of Benazir Bhutto to post-election riots in Kenya to more broken

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