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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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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Contests and Innovation

I have written several blogs about prizes being offered for innovations (for example, see my posts entitled A New Approach to Innovation and More Prizes for Innovation). In the December 1, 2008,

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Agents of Change

Jack Welch, former CEO of General Electric, and his wife Suzy, former editor of the Harvard Business Review, write a weekly column for BusinessWeek in which they answer selected reader questions. A

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When does Connectivity Narrow Thinking?

Two frequent topics of this blog have been connectivity and innovation. I’m in favor of both. An article in The Economist, however, raises the intriguing question: “Is the web narrowing scientists’ expertise?”

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Sleep and Innovation

Almost everybody has had an idea or received a suggestion and then been told to “sleep on it.” Some companies have also started to provide “nap rooms” for their employees, because some

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Innovation Economics

When the cloud of economic dust created by the implosion of large U.S. financial institutions finally begins to settle, some optimistic analysts believe that the U.S. economy that will emerge from the

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Participatory Innovation

I have written a number of posts about innovation. Some of them have focused on the benefits of cross sector innovation, what Frans Johansson calls the “Medici Effect.”  Others have discussed organizations

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Plant-based Plastics

Much has changed over the past 40 decades. Older readers may recall the 1967 motion picture “The Graduate,” in which Dustin Hoffman got his first big break. One of the more memorable

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