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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Where is My Replicator?

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

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An Overview of Kurdistan

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

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On Becoming a Tiger

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

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Supreme Court Adds New Tests for Patents

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

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The Economist and the Evernet

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

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Trends and Shocks

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

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Globalizations’ Win-Win Game

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

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Profiting from Chaos

If there weren’t winners (i.e., people who profit) in or from conflict situations, we would have much less conflict. The truth is, however, that there are winners and there are losers. In

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Oportunidades At Home and Abroad

Last November I wrote a post about eight Programs That Fight Poverty selected by Tina Rosenberg a New York Times editorial board member. Number four on her list was a Mexican program

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More on India’s Future

Last month I wrote about how India’s infrastructure (or lack of it) is adversely affecting its ability to develop as rapidly and productively as it would like [India’s Future]. I concluded that

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