I attended my first ARC forum a few weeks ago.  Having been immersed in presentations and panels for three days though, there was something almost Schrödinger’s cat-like in the air about the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT).  The two apparently contradictory states are: IIoT is real!!! Oh. I thought there was more to IIoT than […]

My earlier blog (What is Hadoop and Why Should a Supply Chain Professional Care?) generated a lot of attention and I was asked to write a follow up.  While Hadoop has a future in supply chain management, because of the massive amounts of data generated, so do plenty of other big data technologies. Think about […]

Hadoop – the word – is everywhere, it’s ubiquitous.  But, knowing how to spell it, and knowing what it means for your company, are two very different things.  So, should supply chain professionals be concerned about Hadoop?  Yes, because although at the moment, Hadoop is probably being used most widely for marketing applications, the marketing […]