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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More On Continuous Partial Attention

In a follow-up post to the first of my two blogs on Harvard Business Review’s 2007 Breakthrough Ideas [HBR 2007 Breakthrough Ideas, Part 1] ZenPundit Mark Safranski tied Linda Stone’s idea of

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HBR 2007 Breakthrough Ideas, Part 2

Yesterday I reviewed ten of the twenty “Breakthrough Ideas for 2007” as selected by the editors of the Harvard Business Review. Today I conclude that review starting with idea number 11. 11.

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HBR 2007 Breakthrough Ideas, Part 1

Each year the Harvard Business Review publishes short articles that describe ideas its editors predict will have a profound effect on the business environment [Breakthrough Ideas for 2007]. Not all of the

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A New Approach to Innovation

Creative thinking generally occurs when a person with creative thinking skills combines it with expertise and motivation to tackle a problem. Creative-thinking skills determine how flexibly and imaginatively people approach problems. Take

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Adaptable Circuitry

According to a New York Times article, Hewlett-Packard is about to announce a breakthrough in adaptable circuitry that will allow circuits to be reconfigured even after a consumer has purchased a product

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Sat TV in a Box

This is an interesting time of year — with new electronic gadgets being introduced in Las Vegas and new concept cars being revealed in Detroit. Lorne Manley, writing in the New York

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R&D in China

Occasionally we need to be reminded about the importance of an educated populace for making and keeping a nation resilient. At the pinnacle of education is research and development. Some of America’s

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The Race to the Top

I remember the days when one of the starkest contrasts between capitalism and communism was that the former fostered an entrepreneurial spirit while the latter sapped the desire to work from its

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Pattern Recognizers and Solution Simplifiers

Thanks to Critt Jarvis (Connecting in Conversation) and Mark Safranski (Zenpundit) for initiating a very interesting discussion on network resiliency and how cognition relates to it. Safranski references a blog about neurolearning

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