Enterra Insights

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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Keeping Up with Changing Tastes

IBM has been trying to demonstrate how its Watson computer can be useful in a number of fields. Earlier this year, it delved into the realm of cuisine. Watson ingested notes taken

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Do You Know Who Your “Influentials” Are?

“Online influentials who provide sole or ‘exclusive’ influence over consumers are the most valuable to companies,” reports Robert Berkman. [“Valuing Influentials Means More than Just Counting Connections,” MIT Sloan Management Review, 10

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Cities from the Ground Up

Every designer dreams of seeing something go from the drawing board to reality – that is, designing and building something from the ground up. This is just as true for urban designers

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Getting a Handle on Returned Merchandise

Retailers and manufacturers never like to see products returned; but, it happens. Evan Schuman contends, “One of the worst parts about managing retail businesses is dealing with unknown future returns.” [“Can Some

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Are Space and Time Real?

“Physicists have discovered a jewel-like geometric object that dramatically simplifies calculations of particle interactions and challenges the notion that space and time are fundamental components of reality,” writes Natalie Wolchover. [“A Jewel

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Sensing Food: The Role of Color

Back in the fall of 2000, three researchers, Lawrence L. Garber, Jr., Eva M. Hyatt, and Richard G. Starr, Jr., conducted a study on “The Effects of Food Color on Perceived Flavor.”

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