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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Globalization’s Reverse Investment Trend

The Economist points out a trend that critics of globalization might find surprising — companies founded in emerging market countries aggressively acquiring companies in richer nations [“Wind of change,” 12 January 2008].

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The Potential of Pond Scum

The confluence of high oil prices and global warming has more and more people thinking green. One of the things receiving a lot of attention is bio-fuel. An unintended consequence of this

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Networked Community Solutions

I have tried to keep several threads running through my posts, one of them being connectivity. Connectivity shows up in discussions of national security in the form of globalization. It shows up

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When Micro-lending Turns Ugly

In the past, I have praised micro-lending schemes that offer loans to the poorest of the poor so that they can start working their way up the economic ladder. Until Muhammad Yunus

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Invention through Evolution

Innovators and innovative companies must be fearless. They cannot be afraid to fail because failure comes with the territory. That is a lesson one of America’s greatest innovators and inventors, Thomas Edison,

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The Coming Age of Cloud Computing

Last October, Steve Lohr reported in the New York Times that Google and IBM were teaming to support research at major universities because they “do not provide the technical training needed for

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More on the Curse of Knowledge

A few days ago I wrote a post on The Curse of Knowledge, which examined how knowledge sometimes restricts one’s ability to think creatively. Mark Safranski at ZenPundit has added his own

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