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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HBR 2007 Breakthrough Ideas, Part 1

Each year the Harvard Business Review publishes short articles that describe ideas its editors predict will have a profound effect on the business environment [Breakthrough Ideas for 2007]. Not all of the

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Connectivity in China

One metric of whether a country is becoming more affluent is how much time and money its citizens spend on entertainment. When people are struggling in poverty they think about being hungry

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Mixed Signals from China

China threw quite a monkey wrench into the workings of the international security system when it successfully tested an anti-satellite weapon last month. International trade and communications are as reliant on space-based

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Development-in-a-Box at Home

There has been an interesting development in the aftermath of hurricane Katrina. According to a Washington Post article, a group of business people have come together and offered a plan to help

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More Stories About the Global Commute

Immigration is already a hot issue and will certainly play a major role in the 2008 presidential elections. President Bush’s repeated efforts to find a compromise guest worker program have gone nowhere.

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Update on Connecting the Poor

Last December I wrote a post about effort to get computers in the hands of students currenly living in poverty [Connecting the Poor]. The post was about a non-profit project called One

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A New Approach to Innovation

Creative thinking generally occurs when a person with creative thinking skills combines it with expertise and motivation to tackle a problem. Creative-thinking skills determine how flexibly and imaginatively people approach problems. Take

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High Growth Rate Drivers

China just reported another year of over 10 percent growth in its GDP. Nobel laureate, Michael Spence, writing in the Wall Street Journal, discusses factors that drive high growth rates [“What Drives

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Investors Like SARBOX

According to a BusinessWeek article by David Henry, Sarbanes-Oxley regulations have been a big hit with investors [“Not Everyone Hates SarbOx,” 29 January 2007]. There has been no shortage of news about

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Wikileaks and Secrecy

Washington Post staff writer Elizabeth Williamson asks us to consider the following scenario: “You’re a government worker in China, and you’ve just gotten a memo showing the true face of the regime.

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