Newspapers and Resiliency
November 7, 2006
If you’re living in the United States and reading this blog, I encourage you to vote today. We celebrate when we see massive turnouts in places like Afghanistan, Iraq, and the Congo
Category: Resilience
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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Distributed Assets & Personal Resiliency
September 13, 2006
In a response to my blog about Singapore’s resilient strategy, one thoughtful reader noted, “Despite Singapore having a resilient strategy, as you note, it still does not have a resilient situation.” What
Resilience and Zarathustra
September 12, 2006
Lessons can be learned from both successes and failures. A New York Times article about the Zoroastrian religion dramatically demonstrates how non-resilience strategies can lead to an organization’s demise [“Zoroastrians Keep the
Child Labor & Resilient Nations
September 7, 2006
According to a New York Times article by Michael Wines [“Africa Adds to Miserable Ranks of Child Workers,” 24 August 2006], “across the globe, the number of children forced to work is
Black Fever and Resilience
August 1, 2006
Yesterday’s New York Times contained an interesting article about a charity that was formed to promote drugs that are effective but not considered profitable enough to pursue by mainstream pharmaceutical companies [“A
Corruption, Development-in-a-Box, and Global Resilience
July 13, 2006
Peter Schaefer, a businessman and consultant with extensive experience working overseas in both the commercial and development sectors, recently posted a TechCentralStation article on the pervasiveness of corruption in the developing world
Civilizations, Complexity & Resilience
July 5, 2006
Mark Safranski, the erudite ZenPundit recently blogged about the relationship between civilization resiliency and increased complexity. He draws from the work of Yaneer Bar-Yam, particularly his essay “Complexity Rising: From Human Beings
Service and Resilience
June 30, 2006
The winners of a British “manufacturing excellence” competition were recently announced. An article in yesterday’s Financial Times examines the characteristics that make the winners excellent. The headline for the article is telling
Hurricane Katrina Fraud & Connecting the Dots
June 28, 2006
There has been a lot of coverage recently concerning alleged fraud connected with assistance provided in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. For example, an MSNBC report [Audits: Millions of dollars in Katrina
Civic Engagements, Social Capital, and Resilience
June 26, 2006
Sebastion Mallaby, in his Washington Post column [“Why So Lonesome,” 26 June 2006], explores the interesting subject of personal connections — what Robert D. Putnam refers to as civic engagement and social
