April Fools’ Day 2021
April 1, 2021
Today is the day set aside to send the gullible on “fools’ errands” to find things like a left-handed screwdriver, a board stretcher, a can of striped paint, a jar of elbow
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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Reconsidering Global Supply Chains
March 31, 2021
Rising nationalism, the protectionism it spawned, and the coronavirus pandemic forced many companies to reexamine their global supply chains. Even before protectionism and pandemic were considerations, I argued that globalization is evolving
Creating a Resilient and Agile Supply Chain
March 30, 2021
The first lesson supply chain professionals learned at the outset of the pandemic was the importance of resilience. The second lesson was equally important — supply chains must be agile. A global
The Consequences of Supply Chain Constipation
March 29, 2021
As most adults know, constipation involves the difficult passage of necessary items through the tail end of the body’s supply chain. If you’ve been following the news, you know the world has
The Future of Nuclear Power: Is There One?
March 26, 2021
This month marks the tenth anniversary of the earthquake and subsequent tsunami that devastated the eastern coast of northern Honshu, Japan’s most populous island, and unleashed a crisis at the Fukushima Dai-ichi
The Pandemic will End; But Will the Retail Apocalypse?
March 25, 2021
The light shining in many a retailer’s eye is a reflection of hope that the pandemic is beginning to wind down. Despite growing optimism about the end of the pandemic, retail correspondent
Driving Business Value with Machine Learning
March 24, 2021
We are all familiar with adages like, “Change for the sake of change, benefits no one” and “Change, for the sake of change, is a recipe for failure.” On the other hand,
Will Online Grocery Sales Continue to Grow?
March 23, 2021
From the time humans abandoned a hunter/gatherer life style, food markets, in one form or another, have been essential to survival. The pandemic reminded us just how essential grocery stores have become
What the Heck is an NFT?
March 22, 2021
You might have heard or read about the startling fact that someone just paid $69 million for a digital work of art. Journalists Kelly Crow (@KellyCrowWSJ) and Caitlin Ostroff (@ceostroff) report, “Cryptocurrency
Your Grandmother Has Discovered the Joys of eCommerce
March 19, 2021
Long before the pandemic forced shoppers online, the trend was clear: Consumers were increasingly taking the digital path to purchase. According to Tom Standage (@tomstandage), editor of The Economist‘s ‘The World in 2021‘,
