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.

Categories

Latest Solar Power Developments

Global warming and development are inextricably tied together. The Bush administration rejected the Kyoto Accord because it thought it would hurt the U.S. economy. Although the administration is looking more favorably on

Read More »

Innovation and Security

Getting Department of Defense contracts has always been good for one’s business. But since President Eisenhower warned about the growing power of the military-industrial complex, people have generally believed that only large

Read More »

Where is My Replicator?

Science fiction has often been a catalyst for ideas. One of the futuristic gadgets carried aboard the various incarnations of the Starship Enterprise was its famous replicator. Fiction is quickly becoming fact

Read More »

Brandenburg’s Gait

When people think about the giants of the music industry, the name Karlheinz Brandenburg doesn’t often come quickly to mind for most of us. Brandenburg, however, will undoubtedly march into the history

Read More »

Southern Cal Gets Innovative

The University of Southern California has tapped Krisztina Holly, the founding director of MIT’s Deshpande Center — which connects MIT’s innovators with venture capitalists and entrepreneurs to make ideas a commercial reality

Read More »

The Age of Entrepreneurs

According to Robert E. Litan, vice president of the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation in Kansas City, Mo., the United States has never been more adventurous when it comes to starting businesses [“Innovators

Read More »

Service as Science

In hard science fields like math and physics, snickers are often heard whenever political “science” or social “science” are mentioned. Those softer sciences are about to be joined by a new discipline

Read More »

Faux Artificial Intelligence

Occasionally I have written about how people are developing new ways to tap the power of the Web. For example, last November I noted that Web developers are drafting non-blind Web surfers

Read More »

Groupthink: Good or Bad?

Most creativity gurus harangue about the dangers of “groupthink.” They go to great lengths to develop and teach techniques that prevent groupthink from becoming the norm in an organization. The term “groupthink”

Read More »
Full Logo

Thanks!

One of our team members will reach out shortly and we will help make your business brilliant!