Enterra Insights

Month: March 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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Faux Artificial Intelligence

Occasionally I have written about how people are developing new ways to tap the power of the Web. For example, last November I noted that Web developers are drafting non-blind Web surfers

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Something Wiki This Way Comes

BusinessWeek Online recently published a special issue on wikis in the workplace [“CEO Guide to Technology“] It offers a simple definition of what wikis are: “Wikis are Web-based tools that make it

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Groupthink: Good or Bad?

Most creativity gurus harangue about the dangers of “groupthink.” They go to great lengths to develop and teach techniques that prevent groupthink from becoming the norm in an organization. The term “groupthink”

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Managing Watch Lists

Anyone who travels probably has a nagging fear (even if it resides in the back of their mind) that their name will mistakenly get placed on a terrorist watch list. It seems

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India’s Future

In recent years, China and India are often mentioned together when discussing the future. They contain the world’s two largest populations and are both developing rapidly. They are both set on a

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U.S. Banks Having Trouble with Basel 2

One the international standards that was aimed at improving the banking industry was hammered out in Basel, Switzerland, three years ago. According to an article in The Economist, the U.S. banking industry

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Africa and Science

In a six paragraph article on African development, The Economist makes sweeping conclusions along the lines of Jared Diamond’s Guns, Germs, and Steel [“Amaizing grace,” 3 February 2007]. This whirlwind sweep of

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The Cult of Innovation

I have written a number of posts about innovation — real innovation. Dan Saffer, writing for BusinessWeek, reminds us that much of the rhetoric about innovation nowadays isn’t discussing real innovation at

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Far-out Ideas for Saving the World

March madness generally applies to the NCAA basketball tournament, but last week Associated Press writer Seth Borenstein made me wonder if the madness isn’t spreading. Borenstein wrote an article, picked up by

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