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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Supply Chain Innovation, Part 1

Dustin Mattison, founder of www.dustinmattison.com, indicates that his passion “lies in harnessing the power of the Internet to affect change in businesses ranging from a size of one to hundreds.” His blog

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Dynamic Collaboration: Inside and Out

Lucy Tesseras, writes, “Supply chain collaboration has long been talked about as the next big thing, yet more often than not it remains a boardroom discussion rather than an operational reality.” [“Dangerous

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Update on the Shipping Industry

As we look forward to 2012, a glut of shipping capacity may be good news for customers and bad news for carriers. The editorial staff at Supply Chain Digest reports, “The large

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SAP Heads for the Cloud

One of the first groups that attempted to deal with the problem of integrating incompatible data included five former IBM employees – Dietmar Hopp, Hans-Werner Hector, Hasso Plattner, Klaus Tschira, and Claus

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SaaS: Speeding Up or Delaying the Future?

Stephanie Neil writes, “Hosted applications remove the burden of buying and maintaining hardware, but off-premise systems could cause data integration problems that require serious consideration in any purchase decision.” [“Is SaaS Sabotaging

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Multi-Channel Commerce: The Rise of E-Commerce

Gopi Krishnan, head of Infosys’ Supply Chain Management practice within Enterprise Solutions, writes that his clients see an “increasing need to get onto the Multi-Channel Commerce (MCC) bandwagon.” [“Multi-Channel Commerce: Not viral

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Pallets and the Supply Chain

We’re all aware of the millions of pallets (or skips) in use around the world that help in the transportation of goods from one place to another. Despite their ubiquity, most people

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Supply Chain Optimization

Robert J. Bowman, managing editor of SupplyChainBrain, writes, “Before companies can apply state-of-the-art technology to that crucial exercise [of optimizing their supply chain], they need to redefine exactly what it is they

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