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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Famine in the Horn of Africa

The Horn of Africa has known its share of tragedies (including the long-running civil conflict in Somalia and war between Ethiopia and Eritrea). Those tragedies, however, are manmade and preventable. They begin

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The Rising "China Price"

In an earlier post [Changing Supply Lines], I discussed how rising fuel prices are changing manufacturers thinking about maintaining long supply lines. A recent article in the Washington Post reiterates that concerns

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More on Oil and Development

Most everyone is aware that because of the steep rise in oil prices, the world is in the midst of the greatest transfer of wealth in history. Politicians from countries dependent on

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Making Money in the Med

When one thinks about the history of the Mediterranean region any number of images can come to mind. Great civilizations like the Egyptians, the Greeks, the Romans, the Ottomans have all left

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Changing Supply Lines

Globalization is all about the movement and flow of resources, capital, people, ideas and so forth. Rising fuel prices, however, are changing the routes some of those flows are following [“Shipping Costs

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Reviving U.S. Manufacturing

In a recent post entitled “Development-in-a-Box™ at Home in America,” I focused on an op-ed piece by Thomas Friedman. In that piece, he chided U.S. politicians for not embracing policies that fostered

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Feeding the Dragon

In my post China’s Hunger for Raw Materials, I noted that China is scouring the globe securing access to natural resources. Long gone are the days of the infamous “Cultural Revolution” when

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Tailoring Products to Emerging Markets

Recently the Economist published an article about Unilever, the world’s second largest consumer goods company, and how it nearly lost its considerable advantage in emerging markets [“The Legacy that got left on

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Fertilizing to End Famine

One of the continuing debates in the environmental world is about the use of fertilizer. Some environmentalists lament that fertilizers are actually killing the land they are supposed to enrich and that

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