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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Globalization and Green Policies in China

Historically countries have ignored environmental concerns in their race to develop their economies. Some analysts have argued that it is only after countries achieve a certain level of prosperity that they begin

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Growing Rice in Africa

Famine and hunger are twin plagues for much of the African continent. They are also two of the reasons that those areas remain in grinding poverty. The requirement to mount new food

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World Bank Sets Priorities

I found it very interesting that Robert B. Zoellick, president of the World Bank, has targeted for that organization the same regions and situations that Enterra Solutions® has targeted for its Development-in-a-Box™

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Mosquito Nets and Development

Even when people are of a single mind about an objective, they can have differences of opinion about how to get achieve that goal. That is what is happening with efforts to

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Growing Demographic Tensions

You would have to be a hermit without access to any news source not to have heard about the immigration debate going on in the United States. Some presidential candidates are vying

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Mobile Phones in Africa

Occasionally in my posts I have mentioned the fact that the African continent has embraced mobile phone technology at an amazing rate. A recent BusinessWeek Special Report discusses how mobile phones are

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Kurdistan’s Dream of Independence

Last month the Economist ran a lengthy article about the Kurdish dream of independence [“Does Independence Beckon?” 8 September 2007]. The article begins by noting that for all intents and purposes the

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