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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Russia Wants to Get Innovative

During the Cold War, the Soviet Union was known more for its engineers and its scientists than its economists. Soviet engineers and scientists demonstrated their brilliance in a number of areas during

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The Future of Lithium

You can hardly go anywhere without seeing someone with a mobile phone. Like so many other products, those phones are powered by lithium ion batteries. Lithium batteries can be extremely efficient, with

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On Interns

With Memorial Day over and summer unofficially here, the media has run a number of stories on summer interns. Interest is high this year because, “as the job market dwindles, unpaid interns

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Origami as Science

Occasionally, I like to remind myself that life is not all business. But, if you enjoy what you do, then business feels more like pleasure than work. One man who apparently feels

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Optimists Make Better Prophets

Optimism is topic to which I have returned time and again since I started writing this blog (see, for example, posts entitled Optimism and Pessimism, In Praise of Optimism, and Optimism, Entrepreneurs,

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Supply Chain Risk Management

A Supply Chain Digest article earlier this year indicated that, when CEOs think about supply chains, “cost cutting and risk management are at top of the agenda” [“How CEOs are Thinking about

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Customer-centric Supply Chains

Companies need customers. I realize that is not a shocking revelation. Karl Albrecht once said, “If you’re not serving the customer, you’d better be serving someone who is.” For individuals involved in

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