Enterra Insights

Month: January 2010

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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Brazil’s Growing Middle Class

I suspect that few analysts ever dream that their work will change the world. But in 2001, analysts at Goldman Sachs coined the term “BRIC countries” as an acronym referring to the

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Rebuilding Haiti

By now you’ve probably heard about the devastating earthquake that leveled Haiti yesterday. “The quake, with a magnitude estimated at 7.0, caused the collapse of the National Palace, leveled countless shantytown dwellings

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Walmart and the Food Supply Chain

Selling groceries is big business. Supermarket News reports, “The 75 largest food retailers and wholesalers in the U.S. and Canada combined to produce $893.08 billion in revenues in 2008, up 7.6% over

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The Future of Innovation

Innovation often starts when an individual with an inquisitive mind bumps up against a challenge and asks why current solutions to that challenge are inadequate. The next step in the innovative process

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The Rise of Hybrid Companies?

What’s a hybrid company? According to The Economist, it’s a company that operates “in the grey area between the public and private sectors [“The rise of the hybrid company,” 5 December 2009

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Learning from Nature II

I first discussed how designers are drawing from the world around them for inspiration in a 2007 post entitled Turning to Nature to Save Energy. In January 2009, I wrote another post

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Modeling “What If” Scenarios

Good planners don’t just extrapolate the present into the future. They engage themselves in alternative futures exercises. They identify the assumptions upon which decisions are being made and question each one of

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