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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Innovation: People, Process, or Both?

“What’s more critical to producing a breakthrough innovation,” asks Andrea Ovans, Senior Editor of the Harvard Business Review, “finding creative people or finding creative ideas?”[1] Since the image that accompanies Ovans’ article

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Supply Chain Innovation — Part 2

In Part 1 of this two-part discussion of a recent MHI/Deloitte report about supply chain innovation entitled “The 2015 MHI Annual Industry Report Supply chain innovation — Making the impossible possible“, I

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Supply Chain Innovation — Part 1

“Supply chains face conflicting demands to be better, faster and cheaper,” states a recent report released by MHI and Deloitte. “Innovation is the key to achieving all three.”[1] The report underscores the

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Innovation and Cognitive Computing

“Machine learning is coming into a golden age,” writes Mehrdad Fatourechi (@mehrdadf), CTO of BroadbandTV Corp, “and with it we’re seeing an awakening of possibilities formerly reserved for science fiction.”[1] If you

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Innovation from Cradle to Grave

Last summer you might have read about the results of an international report released by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD). According to the study, “the U.S. ranks below average

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Demystifying the Mysteries of Innovation

Innovation is one of those terms that you hear frequently but realize doesn’t mean the same thing to everyone. “When asked to define the legal definition for obscenity,” writes Jeff DeGraff (@JeffDeGraff),

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