Browsing MIT Forum for Supply Chain Innovation by Title
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ADAPTER, OPTIMISER, PRÉVOIR: La convergence des concepts, des outils, des technologies et des normes peut-elle accélérer l’innovation ?
(ISLI, Bordeaux Ecole de Management, France, 2004)Les outils et procédés permettant de réduire les insuffisances de la chaîne logistique sont très précieux. La capacité à s’adapter peut en effet ne pas dépendre de la seule technologie mais d’une perpétuelle aptitude à ... -
Adapting Decisions, Optimizing Facts and Predicting Figures: Can Convergence of Concepts, Tools, Technologies and Standards Catalyze Innovation?
(2008-07-31)Managing uncertainty is key in decision systems, such as supply chain management or military readiness. We propose a reasonable confluence of existing concepts, tools, technologies and standards that may, collectively, ... -
ADAPTIVE VALUE NETWORKS: Convergence of Emerging Tools, Technologies and Standards as Catalytic Drivers
(Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2004)Can we collapse information asymmetries and add value to networks or demand webs? Real-time operational adaptability is key, especially in fast ‘clockspeed’ industries. Confluence of emerging tools, technologies and ... -
Agents: Where Artificial Intelligence Meets Natural Stupidity
(2002)This is a summary of Agents research and its potential for applications in multiple fields. -
THE AIMS OF EDUCATION
(2022-11-29)Public education as an instrument of goodwill. Compassion without knowledge is ineffective. Knowledge without compassion is inhuman. -
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AUTO ID FUTURE - FREQUENCY AGNOSTIC
(SCE Europe, 2008-05)Identification of information is one key to the development of intelligent decision systems of the future. Frequency agnostic automatic identification is only one step in the physical world to make physical objects identify ... -
Auto ID Paradigm Shifts from Internet of Things to Unique Identification of Decisions in System of Systems
(2008-07-31)Return on investment (ROI) from radio frequency (RF) based tools of identification may increase with the diffusion of frequency agnostic modes of radio frequency identification (RFID), such as, ultrawideband (UWB). Similarly, ... -
BEING DIGITAL - Nostradamus for the Soul
(2011-04-20)Amorphous and near-fictional aggregation of relational applications with social media, networking and ebusiness services. Hypothetical seamless lifestyle scenarios highlight convergence of applications inevitable in the ... -
Bio-Inspired Energy Dynamics
(2010-03-27)Energy policies based on empirical assumptions without a foundation in granular real-time data may be limited in scope. It may sputter ineffectively in its role as the engine of energy economics. For energy efficiency and ... -
Biofuel Sources and Demand: Rough Comparison between India and China
(2008-11-05)Staggering numbers of demand vs supply -
Can We Apply Principles From Social Networking To Healthcare Informatics For Intelligent Data Analytics?
(2008-12-14)Extracting the principles associated with complexity theory and swarm intelligence has offered practical solutions for routing and scheduling. Reality mining and its link with social networking relationships may yield ... -
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Charlie's Skypeout Strategy
(Government of Finland, 2006-10-01)One view of the future of decision systems that hints how combinatorial convergence of tools, technologies, concepts and ideas may catalyse innovation in order to make better decisions. I have simply assembled them in ... -
Chemistry is the Key to the Energy Economy
(2008-11-05)Stops on the road to fusion energy include biofuels, metabolic engineering and hydrogen. -
Convergence of Bio Info Nano Eco: Global Public Goods and Economic Growth
(2008-07-31)This article is about convergence and why not. How about a ride to space in an elevator? Why not? A single nanotube could stretch from earth to the stratosphere and be able to support its own weight. This fact spurred NASA ... -
CYBERSECURITY
(2022-02-12)The science of cybersecurity and related research may benefit from trans-disciplinary convergence and even mimicry of Natural Laws, e.g., biomimicry, to provide a foundation. -
Cybersecurity - An Agents based Approach?
(2017-04-09)Personal Security Agents as Modular Models representing People, Process, Atoms and Bits -
Decision Support and Systems Interoperability in Global Business Management
(International Journal of Electronic Business Management, 2007)Globalization of business and volatility of financial markets has catapulted ‘cycle-time’ as a key indicator of operational efficiency in business processes. Systems automation holds the promise to augment the ability of ... -
Digital Transformation - IoT is a Metaphor
(2017-08-26)Digital Economics is approaching and the "new economy" will need new rules, new changes and new thinking. Digital Transformation is a step toward Digital Economy. In this article, we haven't even scratched the surface of ...
