John Martin

at John Martin Agency, Inc.
John Martin writes about technology, business, science, and general-interest topics. A former U.S. correspondent for The Economist (Science & Technology), he writes for the private sector, universities, and media, and can be reached at jm@jmagency.com.
Offshore Needs to Get Onboard With Digitization

Offshore Needs to Get Onboard With Digitization

Published on March 2, 2018
The maritime industry and ocean supply chain are dogged by costly inefficiencies due to ineffec...

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The Internet of Cows

The Internet of Cows

Published on February 23, 2018
The cowbell is so yesterday, if entrepreneur Victoria Alonsopérez has her way. The founder of s...

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18 Supply Chain Predictions for CPG and Retail for 2018

18 Supply Chain Predictions for CPG and Retail for 2018

Published on January 31, 2018
It wasn’t that long ago that consumer packaged goods and retail hummed along— Consumer Packaged...

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Business Gets Social, and Wants to Know What You’re Experiencing

Business Gets Social, and Wants to Know What You’re Experiencing

Published on January 23, 2018
Business is going soft—it wants to know how you really feel. Turns out, there’s hard data in th...

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Ford Turns on a Shot Clock

Ford Turns on a Shot Clock

Published on December 6, 2017
Ford Motor Company’s CEO Jim Hackett is instituting a “shot clock”—from the basketball rule des...

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On-Time & In-Full: The Supply Chain Necessity From Retail to Steel Fabrication

On-Time & In-Full: The Supply Chain Necessity From Retail to Steel Fabrication

Published on November 9, 2017
Wal-Mart has called out its suppliers with new rules, backed up by fines, for vendors that don’...

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Breast Cancer Diagnosis Triggers Machine Learning Mission

Breast Cancer Diagnosis Triggers Machine Learning Mission

Published on October 25, 2017
Regina Barzilay gets riled up when data collects dust. It got personal for the MIT professor wh...

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Omni-channel Lays Siege to Supply Chain

Omni-channel Lays Siege to Supply Chain

Published on October 6, 2017
Feel like the world’s coming at you from all directions? It is. It’s the new retail world of om...

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Mind the Gap: CEOs Tackle Skills Shortage

Mind the Gap: CEOs Tackle Skills Shortage

Published on September 12, 2017
The Business Roundtable has issued a report—Work in Progress: How CEOs Are Helping Close Americ...

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Blockchain will Transform the Supply Chain Industry

Blockchain will Transform the Supply Chain Industry

Published on August 21, 2017
Blockchain is associated with the financial sector, where its distributed ledger lets participa...

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PLM in Finance: Money is a Product Too

PLM in Finance: Money is a Product Too

Published on August 9, 2017
Product lifecycle management has historically been manufacturing-centric, but product data has ...

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Cold Chain Looms as Amazon Swallows Whole Foods

Cold Chain Looms as Amazon Swallows Whole Foods

Published on July 25, 2017
Amazon’s purchase of Whole Foods is “the deal that made an industry shudder,” said Fortune maga...

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Grooming IoT Talent

Grooming IoT Talent

Published on July 10, 2017
The Internet of Things (IoT) needs more than smart devices, a network, and analytics that make ...

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Machine Learning: “Top Gear” for the Algorithmic Business

Machine Learning: “Top Gear” for the Algorithmic Business

Published on June 28, 2017
You wouldn’t think a 9th century Persian mathematician would be relevant to modern business. Bu...

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Challenge Still Open: 3D-Print a Home in Space

Challenge Still Open: 3D-Print a Home in Space

Published on June 8, 2017
You won’t find a listing for a home on Mars at Airbnb or Realtor.com; space travelers are going...

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