Enterra Insights

Month: September 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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Corporate Scandals Continue to Play Out

The horizontal scenarios created by the corporate scandals of 2001/2002 continue to generate headlines. For example, Dennis Kozlowski, the former Tyco CEO who looted the company’s treasury to fund an extravagant lifestyle,

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Quality Control and Resilience

One of the best ways to become the brunt of jokes is to produce inferior products. Remember the Yugo. Following the Second World War, “Made in Japan” meant cheap, quickly made, low-end

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Good Fences Make Good Neighbors?

Illegal immigration has been a hot topic in this election year. Congress, trying to look security conscious as this term ends, has passed legislation to build 700 miles of border fence and

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Corruption and Development

Reactions against corruption are beginning to surface in some interesting areas. Yemen is a good example. Better known as the ancestral home of Osama bin Laden and for the attack on the

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Building Resilient Cities

A Washington Post article by Annys Shin [“The City as Modern Muse,” 18 Sep 2006] discusses the theories being promoted by a George Mason University professor named Richard Florida about how to

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Google’s For-Profit Foundation

Lots of people this summer, as they grudgingly pulled up to gas pumps and winced, dreamed of driving a car that could give them 100 miles per gallon performance. According to a

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Hollywood and Resiliency

Rob Pegoraro recently wrote an interesting column in the Washington Post talking about the resiliency (or potential lack of it) of the film industry [“A ‘Mistake’ Hollywood Had Better Start Making,” 13

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