Enterra Insights

Month: April 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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Oportunidades At Home and Abroad

Last November I wrote a post about eight Programs That Fight Poverty selected by Tina Rosenberg a New York Times editorial board member. Number four on her list was a Mexican program

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More on India’s Future

Last month I wrote about how India’s infrastructure (or lack of it) is adversely affecting its ability to develop as rapidly and productively as it would like [India’s Future]. I concluded that

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Climate Terror

Canadian iconoclast, futurist, and conflict expert Thomas Homer-Dixon has turned his attention to climate change and its potential for tearing societies apart [“Terror in the Weather Forecast,” New York Times, 24 April

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The New Car Nation

According to The Economist, the United States was surpassed last by China as the world’s leading producer of automobiles and the Associated Press notes that China is now the globe’s second leading

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Brandenburg’s Gait

When people think about the giants of the music industry, the name Karlheinz Brandenburg doesn’t often come quickly to mind for most of us. Brandenburg, however, will undoubtedly march into the history

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Biometric ID Cards

Nearly a year ago I wrote about the Immigration and Naturalization Service’s Basic Pilot Program, which electronically searches a combination of Social Security and immigration databases to verify an employee’s status [Man

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Southern Cal Gets Innovative

The University of Southern California has tapped Krisztina Holly, the founding director of MIT’s Deshpande Center — which connects MIT’s innovators with venture capitalists and entrepreneurs to make ideas a commercial reality

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The Labor Crunch & The Global Commute

I have occasionally written about the importance of the global commute as one of the resource flows necessary to keep globalization moving forward. In some quarters, the term “global commute” is equated

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Maturing Web 2.0

Web 2.0 has also been called the Social Web because it offers more than information; it offers a new level of connectivity. The Financial Times reports that traditional media outlets (in this

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