Category: Industry 4.0

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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A New Industrial Revolution

In the introductory article of a special report on marketing and innovation published in The Economist, the magazine asserts that “digitisation of manufacturing will transform the way goods are made.” [“The third

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Manufacturing and the Skills Gap

For several years now analysts have been predicting that some manufacturing now done abroad is going to return to U.S. soil. The reasons for these predictions have been fairly straight forward: international

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Can U.S. Manufacturing Really Revive?

For years, eulogies have been written for U.S. manufacturing. Lately, however, including in the President’s State-of-the-Union address, there has been more talk about how important manufacturing is for the U.S. economy. All

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U.S. Manufacturing in the Coming Year

Back in 2008, former U.S. Senator and presidential aspirant Gary Hart called on his party’s presidential candidate, Barack Obama, to transform the U.S. “from a consumer economy to a producing one.” [“America’s

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The Birth and Death of Industry Hubs

A couple of years ago Ann-Elise Henzl, a reporter for Milwaukee’s public radio station WUWM, asked a provocative question: “Is it really possible for a region to make itself the headquarters of

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