Category: Trends

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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Trends 2022: Grocery

According the Supermarket News staff, “The grocery industry has witnessed more change in the past two years than perhaps the entire previous decade.”[1] And, they add, “There’s no rest for the weary.

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Trends 2022: Technology

The term “technology” covers an enormous array of potential subjects. The dictionary defines technology as the application of scientific knowledge for practical purposes, especially in industry. Since we are living in the

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Trends 2022: Retail

These were supposed to be dire days for retail. The so-called retail apocalypse witnessed a record number of store closings over the past few years and the pandemic exacerbated the situation. With

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Trends 2022: Automation

The current labor shortage has shone a spotlight on automation as organizations struggle to find ways to increase production without having to rely on hiring more humans. Although many analysts believe the

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Trends 2022: Marketing

On the path to marketing success, marketers have had to avoid numerous obstacles and potholes the past couple of years as COVID-19 has dominated the business landscape. It’s not just that, with

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Trends 2022: Risk Management

When the Covid-19 pandemic erupted in late 2019 and early 2020, few, if any, risk managers had prioritized widespread illnesses (i.e., a pandemic) as a cause for concern. Risk management has always

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Trends 2022: The Internet of Things

In his very interesting book The Medici Effect: Breakthrough Insights at the Intersection of Ideas, Concepts, and Cultures, Frans Johansson (@Frans_Johansson) writes about the value of creating a space in which people from

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Trends 2022: Supply Chain

Seldom, if ever, has the global supply chain received so much attention as it did in 2021. Unfortunately, most of that attention resulted from what went wrong instead of what went right.

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Trends 2021: Business Risks

Twenty-twenty is now in our rearview mirror. “It’s not being called the ‘year from hell’ for nothing,” write Mathew J. Burrows and Robert A. Manning, analysts from the Atlantic Council.[1] They add,

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Trends 2021: Grocery Industry

Like workers in the healthcare industry, workers in the food industry have served heroically on the front lines of the fight against the pandemic in order to meet the needs of the

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