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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Oil Fuels Kurdistan Economic Boom

With oil prices adversely affecting almost every economic sector, many people are calling for more exploration, more drilling, and more production. All of the so-called “easy oil,” has been found — with

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Plant-based Plastics

Much has changed over the past 40 decades. Older readers may recall the 1967 motion picture “The Graduate,” in which Dustin Hoffman got his first big break. One of the more memorable

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Reviving U.S. Manufacturing

In a recent post entitled “Development-in-a-Box™ at Home in America,” I focused on an op-ed piece by Thomas Friedman. In that piece, he chided U.S. politicians for not embracing policies that fostered

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Kristof Pleads for Books, not Bombs

New York Times‘ columnist Nicholas Kristof spends a lot of his time traveling to locations never seen by most globe-trotting tourists. Such ventures, however, provide him with a world view that can

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The Future of Desalination

In a recent post, I discussed efforts to harness the power of the ocean’s waves to generate electricity [Harnessing the Power of Waves]. Scientists and engineers are also looking to the oceans

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Harnessing the Power of Waves

As long as people have turned their eyes from the shore to the sea, they have seen and recognized the power of waves as they relentlessly hurl themselves toward the shoreline. I

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Happy Fourth of July

In the United States, the 4th of July is a time of picnics, parades, and fireworks. It commemorates America’s declaration of liberty and the right of individuals to pursue happiness. The Fourth

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The Comeback of Electric Cars

Conspiracy theorists have long rumored that solitary inventors, toiling in their garages and basements, have created technologies that can make internal combustion engines (choose your favorite): (1) run on water, (2) achieve

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Creating a Sustainable Future

Nearly two decades ago, MIT professor Peter Senge wrote a best-selling business book that introduced the notion of “learning organizations.” [The Fifth Discipline, New York: Doubleday, 1990]. “As he describes it, a

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