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ChainsSmart contracts with embedded business rules promise not only to reduce transaction costs but to create more agile value chains that enable closer cooperation and enhanced trust across the extended manufacturing ecosystem.

Enterprise robots may not resemble the automatons from your favorite sci-fi movie, but our latest study shows that when applied to automating core business processes, they can extend the creative problem-solving capabilities and productivity of human beings and deliver superior business results.

Drones hold vast potential for streamlining and reducing the cost of insurance-related processes - from claims adjustment and risk-engineering, to post-catastrophe claims settlements for customers, to weeding out fraudulent agricultural claims.

Enabling the flexibility to choose and source value chain elements from anywhere - and change strategy as the market demands - is a key component of the future of work.

Several factors are conspiring to create potentially ideal conditions for a mini-renaissance of domestic manufacturing, including the emergence of additive manufacturing, the forces of social, mobile, analytics and cloud, and ever-rising energy costs.

Having embraced the new tactics and tools, such as social media platforms and virtual communication, companies now face the challenge of integrating them into an organizational structure.

What separates today’s high-flying outliers - such as Apple, Google, Amazon, Netflix and Pandora - from fast-followers and wannabes?