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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Innovation Takes Hard Work

It will come as no surprise to truly creative people that innovation takes hard work. Eureka moments are, to use an old adage, as rare as hens’ teeth. This truism is the

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A New Form of Data Storage

Occasionally I see an article that interests me and I save it to read later. One such article discusses a new form of data storage under development at IBM [“Redefining the Architecture

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Dealing with Bio-Diesel Waste

Waste byproducts are a challenge for any industry. When waste in one industry can be used as a base resource in another industry, the problem shrinks and profits improve. It also increases

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Corporate Social Responsibility

Capitalism has been never been known for altruism. Marx wrote his Manifesto because he believed that capitalism was based on exploitation (especially exploitation of workers). Unscrupulous capitalists have searched for every possible

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Commodity Conflicts?

Everyone knows how rapidly China has been growing. A couple of years ago, China was consuming 40% of cement in the world (US=6%), 33% of cotton (US=7%), 27% of steel (US=12%), 23%

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Kurd Success Fosters Arab Anger

The economic success of the Kurdistan region of Iraq was inevitably going to raise tensions between northern and southern Iraq. That is one of the primary reasons that the Pentagon’s Business Transformation

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Profit-backed Social Philosophy

The World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, draws an interesting and diverse crowd. Yesterday I wrote about the young, social entrepreneurs found there by New York Times‘ columnist Nicholas Kristof [The Rise

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The Rise of the Social Entrepreneur

New York Times’ columnist Nicholas Kristof, while in Davos, Switzerland, covering the World Economic Forum, came across a very different group of people than the normal politicians, business people, and protesters [“The

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