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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Multinationals 2.0

Following the publication of my post on IBM CEO Sam Palmisano’s letter to editor of the Financial Times [Globalization and Resilient Enterprises], I was contacted by James M. Pethokoukis of U.S. News

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Security and Privacy

Life is filled with tensions, some good and some not so good. Creative tensions, for example, help generate innovations and those who must deal with them are seldom complacent. One of the

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Compatibility and Connectivity

Yesterday Microsoft announced that its new Vista operating system, which is scheduled to be released next year, will be more competitor friendly. Although this kinder, gentler Microsoft is the result of numerous

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Gallimaufry III

Gallimaufry is a hash made from leftovers. Over the years the term has also come to mean a hodgepodge, hence the title of this post. This is the third in the series

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Corporate Conscience

I have discussed, on several occasions, the importance of public/private partnerships in jumpstarting the development process. One of the reasons that globalization critics resist its inevitably is because historically, corporations have been

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Chickens, Eggs, & Connectivity

Wednesday’s [12 July] Washington Post published an article by Anush Yegyazarian, from PC World, titled “Censorship, Human Rights, and Capitalism.” Yegyazarian talks about the “Global Online Freedom Act of 2006 ( H.R.

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Gallimaufry II

Gallimaufry is a hash made from leftovers. Over the years the term has also come to mean a hodgepodge, hence the title of this post. This is the second of such posts.

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Networked Civilization Revisited

I have continued to ponder about Dr. Yaneer Bar-Yam’s article, “Complexity Rising: From Human Beings to Human Civilizations, a Complexity Profile,” especially the attached figure. The second frame of the figure depicts

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