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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Radical Collaboration

Steve Hamm, writing in BusinessWeek‘s special section on innovation, discusses lessons learned from IBM’s innovation factory [“Radical Collaboration,” 10 September 2007 print issue]. The article is basically the short version of IBM’s

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Cooking with the Sun

Africa is a large and geographically varied continent. When most people think about poverty there, however, they picture people living in a hardscrabble and unforgiving desert environment trying to eke out an

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The Globally Integrated Job Market

The recent terrorist attacks in the United Kingdom are sending shockwaves across the Asian work force, especially among the Indian medical community which has never had past difficulty placing workers in foreign

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Interest at the Edge

Zenpundit Mark Safranski pointed me in the direction of John Hagel’s and John Seely Brown’s web site. Having recently discussed events at the Edge of Globalization, I was immediately struck by their

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Innovative Companies

Every year BusinessWeek in association with Boston Consulting Group publishes a list of what they consider to be the world’s most innovative companies. The 2007 list was published earlier this year. The

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The Medici Effect and New Design

One of my early posts [The Medici Effect] discussed Frans Johansson’s interesting book The Medici Effect: Breakthrough Insights at the Intersection of Ideas, Concepts, and Cultures, which focuses on the value of

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The Innovator’s Dilemma — 10 Years On

BusinessWeek takes an online look at how the world has changed ten year’s after Clayton Christensen released his best selling book entitled The Innovator’s Dilemma [“Clayton Christensen’s Innovation Brain,” by Jena McGregor,

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Fostering Innovation

In response to my post “The Tension Between Creativity and Efficiency,” ZenPundit Mark Safranski wrote a very thoughtful blog entitled, “On Creativity in Organizations.” Included in Mark’s post is an interesting slideshare

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