Speaking in Numbers
April 16, 2008
One of the reasons that I can market my company’s products and offerings around the world is that the underlying automated rule sets on which they are based utilize the universal language
Enterra Insights
Month: April 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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Feeding the Dragon
April 15, 2008
In my post China’s Hunger for Raw Materials, I noted that China is scouring the globe securing access to natural resources. Long gone are the days of the infamous “Cultural Revolution” when
China’s Hunger for Raw Materials
April 14, 2008
Anyone who has watched the price of commodities rise knows that China is somehow involved in pushing up the prices — not because it is involved in any deep conspiracy, but because
The Importance of Willpower
April 11, 2008
To be successful in business, it helps to have some understanding of what motivates people — be they employees or customers. Best selling books like Howard Rheingold’s Smart Mobs or Malcolm Gladwell’s
Development and Infrastructure
April 10, 2008
In my discussions about Development-in-a-Box™, I have stressed the importance of infrastructure in critical areas such as transportation, telecommunications, healthcare, and finance. China, who as everyone knows is frantically building its own
The Race for a 100 mpg Car
April 9, 2008
Last month I wrote a post about Google teaming with the X Prize Foundation to sponsor a contest to send robots to the moon [Reaching for the Moon]. The X Prize Foundation,
Happy Birthday DARPA
April 8, 2008
Everyone who surfs the Internet or sends email owes a debt to the Defense Advance Research Projects Agency (commonly known as DARPA). It was DARPA (named ARPA until 1972) that, at the
Demand for Coal Increases as do Environmental Concerns
April 7, 2008
There has been an upsurge the past couple of years in the attention being paid to climate change and its possible causes. Despite a hard core group of skeptics, most people are
Development and the Rule of Law
April 4, 2008
Corruption is one of the surest ways to undermine development. Almost every country at the bottom of the economic pyramid suffers from corrupt government, which is the reason that decades of foreign
The Global Economy through a Different Lens
April 3, 2008
Most of the economic buzz at the moment is about whether the U.S. is in or headed towards recession and what that will mean for the rest of the world. The Economist
