Video: how companies map their supply chains
Tracing every supplier behind a product is harder than it sounds. A visual guide to the process.
Tracing every supplier behind a product is harder than it sounds. A visual guide to the process.
Behind the debate over rules for artificial intelligence lie three distinct concerns: the capabilities of systems, how they are used, and who is accountable when they fail.
Building a modern semiconductor plant requires far more than money. It depends on accumulated know-how, specialised suppliers and a production process that tolerates almost no error.
Efficiency once trumped everything. Now businesses are paying for resilience — and discovering how hard it is to buy.
Tapping a card or sending money abroad feels instantaneous. Behind it sits a layered architecture of messages, ledgers and central bank accounts that determines when a payment is truly final.
From software to cars, companies want recurring revenue. Customers are starting to count the cost.
Software flaws persist not because nobody knows how to fix them, but because the people who could fix them often do not bear the cost of leaving them unfixed.