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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Enmity or Engagement in Africa?

Last fall Lionel Barber and Andrew England wrote an article in the Financial Times about China’s advances in Africa [“China’s Africa scramble finds welcome in Kenya,” 9 August 2006]. The article begins

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Globalization’s Ebb and Flow

Most analysts believe that globalization will continue to sweep across the globe like Noah’s flood. Countries that survive and prosper will be those that climb aboard the ark of connectivity and adhere

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Reconstruction in Iraq

In my post about the President’s new Iraq strategy speech [The New Iraq Strategy], I focused on his recommendations for increasing personnel involved in reconstruction activities. A subsequent article in the New

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The New Iraq Strategy

“Tonight in Iraq, the Armed Forces of the United States are engaged in a struggle that will determine the direction of the global war on terror ­ and our safety here at

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Property Rights & Resilience

Last month I discussed a list of programs highlighted by Tina Rosenberg that have proven themselves effective in helping fight poverty [Programs that Fight Poverty]. One of those programs was giving people

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Globalization vs. Protectionism

A Washington Post op-ed piece by William H. Overholt, Director of the RAND Corporation’s Center for Asia Pacific Policy, addresses some of the arguments leveled against globalization by critics like CNN’s Lou

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Iodine and Intelligence

Sasha Baron Cohen has received a great deal of attention this year for his movie Borat which portrays a fictional Kazakhstan reporter poking fun at Khazakstanis and unsuspecting Americans. Neither the Kazakhstanis

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