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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Where Venture Capital is Flowing

Last October Pui-Wing Tam and Cari Tuna reported that California’s “Silicon Valley’s start-up economy [had] quietly broadened beyond information technology. It now includes a growing cadre of bioscience and ‘clean technology’ firms,

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Boomer Entrepreneurs

In a post entitled Entrepreneurs: Old and Young, I cited an article by Stefan Theil in which he claimed that “older entrepreneurs have higher success rates when they start companies” than their

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Britain Embraces Entrepreneurism

I have repeatedly asserted that one of the best ways to promote economic growth and increase employment is to enact policies that foster entrepreneurism. British Prime Minister David Cameron apparently accepts that

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No End to Innovation

Almost everyone has heard about or read an alleged 1899 statement by U.S. Patent Office Commissioner Charles H. Duell that goes: “Everything that can be invented has been invented.” No credible source

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Transforming Global Supply Chains

Supply chains have been around since villages began trading goods with each other tens of thousands of years ago. Over the course of those millennia, the complexity of supply chains has increased

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3D Printing and the Supply Chain

The editorial staff at Supply Chain Digest asks an interesting question: “How Soon will ‘Printed’ Parts Revolutionize Supply Chains – and the World?” [22 February 2011] I first posted a blog that

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Just-in-Time Logistics Scrutinized Anew

As a result of the combination earthquake/tsunami in Japan, “manufacturing executives from San Mateo to Stuttgart are scrutinizing production schedules, searching for backup suppliers, and figuring out how to cope with rising

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