Category: Supply Chain

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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Is Risk Assessment Getting More Difficult?

Despite access to more information and significant increases in available computing power, Carol Matlack concludes, “As the global economy gets more connected, it has become harder for insurers like Munich Re to

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Improving Supply Chain Performance

Last December, Max Jeffrey, an integration consultant at Kinaxis, asked an important question, “Do you know the impact of the supply chain on your business?” [The 21st Century Supply Chain, 8 December

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Attention to the Cold Arctic Heats Up

Last December I wrote about the attention that the so-called Northwest Passage is receiving now that climate change has made that passage accessible for more months of the year (see Supply Chains

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Reducing Supply Chain Complexity

In a post written last month, noted supply chain analyst Lora Cecere discussed the complexity she perceives in many corporate supply chains. “They are a tangled and knotted mass,” she writes. “For

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Supply Chain Visibility

Supply chain visibility is a characteristic that most analysts believe will be increasingly important in the years ahead. They also admit it will be difficult to achieve. In an IBM study that

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