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.

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Supreme Court Adds New Tests for Patents

In what many analysts consider its most important patent ruling in decades, the Supreme Court established new tests for issuing patents that combine elements of previously issued patents [“High Court Puts Limits

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Globalizations’ Win-Win Game

Many people still perceive globalization as a contest in which there must be winners and losers. If China rises, for example, they assume that someone else (e.g., the U.S.) must fall. Those

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Profiting from Chaos

If there weren’t winners (i.e., people who profit) in or from conflict situations, we would have much less conflict. The truth is, however, that there are winners and there are losers. In

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Oportunidades At Home and Abroad

Last November I wrote a post about eight Programs That Fight Poverty selected by Tina Rosenberg a New York Times editorial board member. Number four on her list was a Mexican program

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More on India’s Future

Last month I wrote about how India’s infrastructure (or lack of it) is adversely affecting its ability to develop as rapidly and productively as it would like [India’s Future]. I concluded that

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The New Car Nation

According to The Economist, the United States was surpassed last by China as the world’s leading producer of automobiles and the Associated Press notes that China is now the globe’s second leading

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Brandenburg’s Gait

When people think about the giants of the music industry, the name Karlheinz Brandenburg doesn’t often come quickly to mind for most of us. Brandenburg, however, will undoubtedly march into the history

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Biometric ID Cards

Nearly a year ago I wrote about the Immigration and Naturalization Service’s Basic Pilot Program, which electronically searches a combination of Social Security and immigration databases to verify an employee’s status [Man

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The Labor Crunch & The Global Commute

I have occasionally written about the importance of the global commute as one of the resource flows necessary to keep globalization moving forward. In some quarters, the term “global commute” is equated

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