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Reflections, Thank-you(s) and Rethinking the Future

Supply Chain Shaman

Open Source Technologies (Examples include Hadoop, Spark, Kafka). … a group of energized innovators. In retrospect, the 1990s were an exceptional time of innovation impacts on productivity. Embrace innovation. This includes: Sensors coupled with data from the Internet of Things (IOT). Blockchain/Cryptocurrency.

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Impact of Macro Trends on Supply Chains: Digitization of Products

MIT Supply Chain

Two innovations have changed this picture. Subscription- based streaming of music, for example is up 50% in 2013 from 2012. For example, Australia’s Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization needed to create a new form of streamlined tags to use with large fish.