Enterra Insights

Month: July 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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Retailer Chargebacks

Last May Enterra Solutions® sponsored a Web seminar entitled “Retailer Compliance: Accentuate the Positive, Eliminate the Penalties.” Consumer Goods Technology (CGT) published highlights from that webinar that I republished in a post

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Innovation and Incubation

I have noted in past posts that for an idea to become an innovation it must have three components. Put in a mathematical formula it would look like this: innovation = new

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In Praise of the Humble Potato

An old Irish proverb says, “It is easy to halve the potato where there is love.” The unstated assumption in that adage is that it applies to situations when food is scarce

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Mobile Medicine

In a previous post entitled Healthcare in the Developing World, I reported the significant difference that even basic healthcare facilities and programs can make in developing countries. New mobile devices are now

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Nurturing Supply Chain Professionals

Each year Supply Chain Digest gathers a panel of supply chain experts (virtually) and asks them for their predictions about the coming year. This year was a particularly tricky one to prognosticate

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The Ups and Downs of Open Innovation

Although most companies would like to innovate internally so that they control the entire process as well as the fruits of their labor, only stubbornly blind organizations believe that their ideas are

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Happy Independence Day 2010

Although yesterday (Sunday) was officially Independence Day in the United States, it is being observed today so that people can enjoy a day off from work. Most countries around the world celebrate

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Turkey at the Crossroads

Turkey, as everyone knows, straddles two continents. It has played an historic role in both Christian and Muslim religions. And, for much of the past hundred years, Turkey has been looking for

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