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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The Race to the Top

I remember the days when one of the starkest contrasts between capitalism and communism was that the former fostered an entrepreneurial spirit while the latter sapped the desire to work from its

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From Somalia to Svalbard

Two subjects over the past few days caught my eye: Somalia and food. Both topics touch on resilience, the first describes the importance of women in making societies resilient, the second explores

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Resilience and WMD Threats

An article in yesterday’s Washington Post [“The End Is Near, But First, This Commercial,” by Libby Copeland], talked about a SciFi Channel-sponsored discussion about doomsday scenarios that attracted a large Washington, DC,

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Open or Closed

David Brooks’ column in today’s New York Times [“Changing Bedfellows”] summarizes the philosophical tension he believes polarizes modern American politics. He eschews the labels “liberal” and “conservative,” believing they no longer adequately

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Globalization and Resilient Enterprises

On Monday, the chairman and CEO of IBM, Samuel Palmisano wrote an interesting letter to the editor of the Financial Times [“Multinationals have been superseded,” 12 June 2006]. Palmisano didn’t exactly deliver

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The Energy Challenge

The New York Times has been running a series of articles on energy and the challenges the world is having trying to meet demands. The reason that energy is a topic in

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Gallimaufry I

Gallimaufry is a hash made from leftovers. Over the years the term has also come to mean a hodgepodge. Occasionally I want to be able to address a hodgepodge of items that

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Network Resiliency — Good or Bad?

The always interesting Mark Safranski (ZenPundit) posted an interesting discussion yesterday on the resiliency of networks. Safranski pointed to MSNBC’s ScienceDaily site, which reported on research conducted by University of Michigan physics

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Resiliency and the Environment

In the commercial world, I preach that a resilient enterprise is agile and adaptable. It moves faster and more effectively than its competition. It responds to threats with more speed and greater

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