Interagency Feuding Over Iraq Reconstruction
May 15, 2007
As I noted a few days ago, Paul Brinkley and his colleagues from the Pentagon were instrumental in setting up my trip to Kurdistan — for which I am most grateful. In
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.
Categories
3 days in Iraq from the Syrian/Turkish border to the Iranian border
May 14, 2007
As part of our economic development trip to Iraq where we are beginning to lay the ground work and templates for Development-in-a-Box™, our team for the last 3 days has driven the
Resilience in Kurdistan
May 11, 2007
In Wednesday’s post, I wrote that Kurdistan’s relative peace has permitted it to achieve a level of prosperity and economic growth that is the envy of the rest of Iraq. That peace
Where is My Replicator?
May 10, 2007
Science fiction has often been a catalyst for ideas. One of the futuristic gadgets carried aboard the various incarnations of the Starship Enterprise was its famous replicator. Fiction is quickly becoming fact
An Overview of Kurdistan
May 9, 2007
I’m currently visiting Iraq — more specifically, the Kurdish portion of Iraq often referred to as Kurdistan. Kurdistan literally means land of the Kurds and traditionally covers a large area contained within
On Becoming a Tiger
May 8, 2007
The tiger has become the international symbol for countries with healthy (even spectacular) rates of economic growth. This is probably because the imagery was first applied to Asian countries in Asia. New
Supreme Court Adds New Tests for Patents
May 7, 2007
In what many analysts consider its most important patent ruling in decades, the Supreme Court established new tests for issuing patents that combine elements of previously issued patents [“High Court Puts Limits
The Economist and the Evernet
May 4, 2007
Last month I wrote a post on Ubiquitous Sensors and the Evernet. The “Evernet” is a term I borrowed from my colleague Tom Barnett. The Economist now has an article on what
Trends and Shocks
May 3, 2007
Retired Navy Captain Terry Pudas, who inherited the Pentagon’s Office of Force Transformation from the late Art Cebrowski, recently wrote a short piece describing an alternative construct for defense planning [“Trends and
Globalizations’ Win-Win Game
May 2, 2007
Many people still perceive globalization as a contest in which there must be winners and losers. If China rises, for example, they assume that someone else (e.g., the U.S.) must fall. Those
