Category: Innovation

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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Entrepreneurs as Heroes

In a recent special report, The Economist calls entrepreneurs “global heroes.” Long-time readers of this blog know that I have consistently touted the importance of entrepreneurs if one wants to strengthen the

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Looking for the Next Big Idea

BusinessWeek periodically publishes a special section on innovation. It’s latest report was published in the March 23 & 30, 2009, print issue. The first thing that caught my eye in the section

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Innovations from Emerging Market Economies

In a draft report entitled, “Innovation Shift” to the Emerging Economies: Cases from IT and Heavy Industries, Leonard Lynn and Hal Salzman wrote: “In a widely accepted interpretation, Alfred Chandler (1990) attributed

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"Numbers" in Real Life

Crime shows on American television that highlight modern technologies or techniques almost always exaggerate what is actually available in real life — on the small screen, DNA is isolated and evaluated in

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Lobbying for an Innovation Czar

I have written a number of posts dealing with the current financial situation and in those posts I have stressed the central role of job creation in getting the world’s economy on

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Learning from Nature

Amid all the bad news — the current recession, conflict in the Middle East, famine in Horn of Africa, etc. — it’s important to look around and see what else is happening

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The Gift of Sight

Celtic folk musician and story teller, Charles de Lint, wrote, “The few wonders of the world only exist while there are those with the sight to see them.” Although we have been

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America’s Competitive Edge

A famous line from William Shakespeare’s Hamlet reads, “The lady doth protest too much, methinks.” In an article about innovation in America in The Economist, the magazine lays out its case that

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