Enterra Insights

Year: 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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Demographics and Economic Growth

Demographics and economics have always had a connection. For years, uncontrolled growth in the developing world was pointed to as one of the reasons that people there were mired in poverty. That

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Terrorism and the Supply Chain

The latest terrorist scare that involved packages found onboard cargo aircraft is a good reminder that evil people are still trying to disrupt our lives and the world’s economy. Fortunately, no one

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Sense and Respond Supply Chains

A number of supply chain analysts believe that, to remain competitive, companies will eventually have to transform their supply chains from being “focused on trying to predict demand to … customer-driven chains

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Hard Times for Inventors

According to the Wall Street Journal, inventors are having a difficult time getting their inventions to market [“Slim Odds for Inventors,” by Sarah E. Needleman, 6 October 2010]. Needleman begins her article

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Should You Become an Entrepreneur?

John Seely Brown, the former chief scientist at Xerox Corp. and former director of the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center (PARC), wrote a short article about people who found themselves unemployed taking

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Rethinking Supply Chains

I’ve written a number of posts over the past few years about the importance of breaking down silos of activity and information that inevitably emerge in large organizations. Breaking down silos requires

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PRTM Identifies Five Supply Chain Challenges

A study by PRTM Management Consultants titled Lessons Learned from the Global Recession identifies five key challenges that manufacturing and service companies will face over the next several years [“PRTM study highlights

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