Enterra Insights

Month: September 2011

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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Attention to the Cold Arctic Heats Up

Last December I wrote about the attention that the so-called Northwest Passage is receiving now that climate change has made that passage accessible for more months of the year (see Supply Chains

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Does Kindness Pay?

Stephen Grellet, a famous Quaker missionary, wrote, “I expect to pass through this world but once; any good thing therefore that I can do, or any kindness that I can show to

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The Birth and Death of Industry Hubs

A couple of years ago Ann-Elise Henzl, a reporter for Milwaukee’s public radio station WUWM, asked a provocative question: “Is it really possible for a region to make itself the headquarters of

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Reducing Supply Chain Complexity

In a post written last month, noted supply chain analyst Lora Cecere discussed the complexity she perceives in many corporate supply chains. “They are a tangled and knotted mass,” she writes. “For

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Supply Chain Visibility

Supply chain visibility is a characteristic that most analysts believe will be increasingly important in the years ahead. They also admit it will be difficult to achieve. In an IBM study that

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Labor Day 2011

I would have liked to have titled this post “Happy Labor Day”; but, with an unemployment rate hovering over 9 percent and few prospects of it diminishing in the near term, I

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