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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Building a “Learning Supply Chain”

As supply chains become increasingly global and integrated, information systems need greater agility to manage the resulting complexity and the need to act in real-time or near-real-time. Companies are asking for technologies

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Women Entrepreneurs: Going Gaga

Kristyn Wilson, Media Relations Director for Resource Interactive, told me, “The number of woman owned businesses in the U.S. is growing, but only five percent of the estimated $36 billion invested by

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Managing Supply Chain Risk

Supply chain risk management expert Daniel Stengl writes, “After a major disruption there are many firms [that] severely suffer and take a long time to fully recover. On the other side of

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Is Risk Assessment Getting More Difficult?

Despite access to more information and significant increases in available computing power, Carol Matlack concludes, “As the global economy gets more connected, it has become harder for insurers like Munich Re to

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Improving Supply Chain Performance

Last December, Max Jeffrey, an integration consultant at Kinaxis, asked an important question, “Do you know the impact of the supply chain on your business?” [The 21st Century Supply Chain, 8 December

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Creating Jobs in America, Part 2

In yesterday’s post, I discussed some of the initial recommendations offered by the President’s Jobs and Competitiveness Council as well as some of the programs that the President put forward in his

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Creating Jobs in America, Part 1

In June, two members of the President’s Jobs and Competitiveness Council, Jeffrey Immelt, the Council’s Chairman as well as the chairman and CEO of General Electric, and Kenneth Chenault, the CEO of

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The "Big Data" Dialogues, Part 3

In Parts One and Two of these dialogues, I discussed the subject of big data from a supply perspective — specifically, the perspective of supply chain analyst Lora Cecere. Cecere keeps her

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