Enterra Insights

Year: 2006

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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Property Rights & Resilience

Last month I discussed a list of programs highlighted by Tina Rosenberg that have proven themselves effective in helping fight poverty [Programs that Fight Poverty]. One of those programs was giving people

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Rebuilding the Gulf Coast

Last Sunday’s Parade magazine contained a heartwarming article about efforts to rebuild the Gulf Coast in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina’s devastation [“I Can’t Believe I’ll Be Home For Christmas,” by David

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Remembering Gerald Ford

Despite his age, I was saddened to learn of the passing of President Gerald Ford. He will probably be remembered for three things: being the only man who ever served as President

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Development-in-a-Box at Home

Washington Post columnist E.J. Dionne, Jr., recently commented on New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s innovative effort to help the city’s nearly 2 million citizens living below the poverty line to break

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Globalization vs. Protectionism

A Washington Post op-ed piece by William H. Overholt, Director of the RAND Corporation’s Center for Asia Pacific Policy, addresses some of the arguments leveled against globalization by critics like CNN’s Lou

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Iodine and Intelligence

Sasha Baron Cohen has received a great deal of attention this year for his movie Borat which portrays a fictional Kazakhstan reporter poking fun at Khazakstanis and unsuspecting Americans. Neither the Kazakhstanis

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Pax Americana & Resiliency

Americans rightly love their independence. We chafe when our options appear circumscribed by others and we enter hestitantly into alliances and treaties. In many of America’s conservative enclaves, all you have to

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Globalization’s Up & Down Sides

China’s economic advance has been so fast over the past quarter of a century it’s like viewing U.S. economic development over a hundred years on fast forward. Take, for example, the southern

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Connecting through Education

In an interesting op-ed piece in the New York Times, the former dean of Yale’s School of Mangagement, Jeffrey E. Garten, talks about the importance of higher education for the promotion of

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