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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Rogue Aid

I have noted before that one way alleged terrorist groups curry favor with local populations and garner their protection is by providing social services in areas where legitimate governments have fallen short.

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More On Continuous Partial Attention

In a follow-up post to the first of my two blogs on Harvard Business Review’s 2007 Breakthrough Ideas [HBR 2007 Breakthrough Ideas, Part 1] ZenPundit Mark Safranski tied Linda Stone’s idea of

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Industry Consolidations

Last month I wrote that this current wave of globalization is fostering transnational industry consolidation as a natural outgrowth of increased connectivity [Consolidating Industries & Critical Infrastructure Platforms]. That post was about

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Development Gone Awry in Chad

Lisa Margonelli, an Irvine Fellow at the New America Foundation writing in a blog published by the New York Times, provides an update of what, a few years ago, was billed a

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Baby Steps for the Semantic Web

Many futurists believe the next step for the World-Wide Web will be the advent of a Semantic Web sometimes called Web 3.0 [see my earlier post on Web 3.0]. The fabled Palo

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Socially Responsible Corporations

Last week I reviewed Harvard Business Review’s “Breakthrough Ideas for 2007” [Part 1, Part 2]. One of the ideas, from Karen Fraser, was titled “Conflicted Consumers” and discussed how ethical questions about

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New York’s New Sensor Net

Last Friday the New York Times reported that New York City is about to become a Department of Homeland Security testing ground for sensors designed to detect nuclear material that could be

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Web 2.0 in China

In my blog on Connectivity in China, I noted that Richard Ji, a Morgan Stanley analyst, claims the primary use of the Internet in China is entertainment, as opposed to the United

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HBR 2007 Breakthrough Ideas, Part 2

Yesterday I reviewed ten of the twenty “Breakthrough Ideas for 2007” as selected by the editors of the Harvard Business Review. Today I conclude that review starting with idea number 11. 11.

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