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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.

Blockchain technology is a great way to enhance your supply chain management, and with the use of smart contracts, you can make sure different suppliers are meeting their obligations - this is a global system for mediating trust and selective transparency and could potentially transform your supply chain.

Raffaello D'Andrea, cofounder of Kiva Systems, discussed the future of robotics and the robotics industry with BCG.

In a robot lab at TEDGlobal, Raffaello D'Andrea demonstrates his flying quadcopters: robots that think like athletes, solving physical problems with algorithms that help them learn.

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.

US Federal Aviation Administration gives civilian drones the green light but Amazon's delivery plan is a no-no.

In reaching its decision, the NTSB determined the FAA may apply the regulation that prohibits operation of an aircraft in a careless or reckless manner to unmanned aircraft.

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.

It's all about the Code Halos, baby. To better meet and react to hyper-active market demand, companies need to move from the hard-coded supply chains to a flexible, demand-driven value webs.

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

The University of Texas student detained during a Saturday night football game after flying a drone above the stadium has not been charged, but his drone was seized and now the incident is highlighting the gray area surrounding drone laws.