Enterra Insights

Month: January 2007

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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More Stories About the Global Commute

Immigration is already a hot issue and will certainly play a major role in the 2008 presidential elections. President Bush’s repeated efforts to find a compromise guest worker program have gone nowhere.

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Update on Connecting the Poor

Last December I wrote a post about effort to get computers in the hands of students currenly living in poverty [Connecting the Poor]. The post was about a non-profit project called One

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A New Approach to Innovation

Creative thinking generally occurs when a person with creative thinking skills combines it with expertise and motivation to tackle a problem. Creative-thinking skills determine how flexibly and imaginatively people approach problems. Take

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High Growth Rate Drivers

China just reported another year of over 10 percent growth in its GDP. Nobel laureate, Michael Spence, writing in the Wall Street Journal, discusses factors that drive high growth rates [“What Drives

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Investors Like SARBOX

According to a BusinessWeek article by David Henry, Sarbanes-Oxley regulations have been a big hit with investors [“Not Everyone Hates SarbOx,” 29 January 2007]. There has been no shortage of news about

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Wikileaks and Secrecy

Washington Post staff writer Elizabeth Williamson asks us to consider the following scenario: “You’re a government worker in China, and you’ve just gotten a memo showing the true face of the regime.

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Enmity or Engagement in Africa?

Last fall Lionel Barber and Andrew England wrote an article in the Financial Times about China’s advances in Africa [“China’s Africa scramble finds welcome in Kenya,” 9 August 2006]. The article begins

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Homeland Security 2.0

If everything went as planned last evening for my colleague Tom Barnett, he was seated close to field at one of the most exciting conference championships in years as Indianapolis defeated New

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Adaptable Circuitry

According to a New York Times article, Hewlett-Packard is about to announce a breakthrough in adaptable circuitry that will allow circuits to be reconfigured even after a consumer has purchased a product

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Data Collection Challenges

The 2004 Intelligence Reform Act authorized a Cross-Border Electronic Funds Transfer Program as part of America’s war on terrorism. A Washington Post article that discusses a report just issued by the Department

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