Enterra Insights

Month: September 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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India Outsourcing to the U.S.

I have written a number of posts about the global commute — a term used to describe how labor is changing to match the requirements of globalization [e.g., Updates on the Global

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Mobile Phone Software and Standards

A couple of my recent posts have discussed mobile phones and the benefits of standardization [Relief, Development, and the Digital Divide] and the challenges faced when such standards are lacking [see postscript

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Radical Collaboration

Steve Hamm, writing in BusinessWeek‘s special section on innovation, discusses lessons learned from IBM’s innovation factory [“Radical Collaboration,” 10 September 2007 print issue]. The article is basically the short version of IBM’s

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Complexity and Resilience

When I first founded Enterra Solutions, one of the emerging characteristics of the information age that intrigued me was its increasing complexity. It was clear to me that there was a growing

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A Few Good Signs for Africa

The United Nations Children’s Fund recently announced that for the first time since 1960 (when records started being kept) the annual death total for children around the world has dipped below the

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Recovering the Spoils of Corruption

I have written before about the negative effects that corruption has on struggling economies [for example see my post Corruption, Development-in-a-Box, and Global Resilience]. It’s not just that corruption siphons off sorely

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Two-Sigma Solutions

The term Six Sigma has become synonymous with the complex search for perfection. Companies like Six Sigma processes because they are always searching for improved efficiencies. Consumers like Six Sigma processes because

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