Enterra Insights

Month: January 2008

In this blog, we discuss cognitive computing and other cutting-edge technologies with a focus on supply chain management, autonomous decision-making, and innovation. Other topics of discussion include digital enterprise transformation, autonomous intelligent enterprises, emerging technologies, and global trade. Our goal is to advance the public discussion about how cognitive computing and other advanced technologies affect the world in which we live.

Bradd C. Hayes is the active editor of this blog.

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Invention through Evolution

Innovators and innovative companies must be fearless. They cannot be afraid to fail because failure comes with the territory. That is a lesson one of America’s greatest innovators and inventors, Thomas Edison,

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The Coming Age of Cloud Computing

Last October, Steve Lohr reported in the New York Times that Google and IBM were teaming to support research at major universities because they “do not provide the technical training needed for

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More on the Curse of Knowledge

A few days ago I wrote a post on The Curse of Knowledge, which examined how knowledge sometimes restricts one’s ability to think creatively. Mark Safranski at ZenPundit has added his own

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Demographics and Robots

I have mentioned in previous posts dealing with demographics that the Japanese, who have maintained xenophobic immigration policies, have tried hard to replace an aging work force with robots so that they

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Tribalism, Kenya, and AFRICOM

Anyone who has been following international news has watched or read with dismay the rising violence in Kenya following presidential elections. The Kikuyu tribe, which has long been the dominant tribe in

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Fertilizing to End Famine

One of the continuing debates in the environmental world is about the use of fertilizer. Some environmentalists lament that fertilizers are actually killing the land they are supposed to enrich and that

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Economic Emigration

In a recent post, I discussed the dark side of the global commute as it is unfolding in Kurdistan [Kurdistan and the Global Commute]. The focus of that post was workers promised

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Can Greed Save Africa?

In an earlier post, I discussed the John Templeton Foundation’s roundtable discussion about aid and Africa [Will Money Solve Africa’s Problems?]. The answer to that question was a qualified “no.” Africa certainly

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The Curse of Knowledge

One of my favorite topics is innovation. Creative people are exciting to be around and studies about creativity and innovation always offer interesting insights. New studies are showing that creativity often suffers

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