When Jonathan Taplin’s book Move Fast and Break Things, which dealt with the worrying rise of big tech, was first published in the U.K. in April 2017, his publishers removed its subtitle because they didn’t think it was supported by evidence: "How Facebook, Google and Amazon cornered culture and undermined democracy."

Joseph Selle, IBM's executive in charge of cognitive transformation and operations, is among technology experts who believe artificial intelligence is applicable not only across the supply chain but throughout every department and function in a company.

Customs-compliance rules are costly, burdensome, time-consuming … and a potential source of competitive advantage.