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.
Although many people are acting as if the Covid pandemic is over, it isn’t. Reporter Erika Edwards (@erikaedwardsnbc), and her colleague Dr. Akshay Syal, observe, “Hospitals nationwide are preparing for another winter
One of the big debates during the pandemic was whether new consumer shopping behaviors would be permanent or whether consumers would revert to old shopping behaviors once they felt safe to venture
Thanks to the pandemic there has been a significant paradigm shift in the retail sector. That shift, according to Ilias Simpson (@IliasSimpson), CEO at Radial, involved a “transformation of omnichannel buying behavior.”[1]
Ready or not, retailers were shoved into the omnichannel world thanks to pandemic lockdowns beginning early in 2020. This created a new retail landscape — on both the consumer and supplier side.
With many retail chains announcing the opening of new stores, the so-called “retail apocalypse” seems to be waning. This twist of events may surprise some observers considering the fact that the pandemic
With the prospect of wary consumers remaining reluctant to shop in stores during the upcoming holiday season, online sales began in earnest with Amazon’s October Prime Day. Other large retailers, like Walmart,
Hindsight — understanding of a situation or event only after it has happened — is important; however, foresight — the ability to predict or the action of predicting what will happen or
British novelist Wilbur Addison Smith once wrote, “History is a river that never ends.” The metaphor of history as a river is misleading. It implies a fairly steady flow of events from
You don’t have to be a faithful follower of the retail sector to know it’s in trouble. The media was focusing on the so-called Retail Apocalypse long before the novel coronavirus pandemic
Even before the COVID-19 pandemic shuttered physical stores, retailers were adopting omnichannel strategies to take advantage of the increasingly important consumer digital path to purchase. When the pandemic descended on the economy
