Enterra Insights

Month: December 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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Laptops in Peru

I’d like to end the year on an up-note. There are plenty of stories to cause concern — from the death of Benazir Bhutto to post-election riots in Kenya to more broken

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Mapping Connections

Every school child learns that there has been an explosion of knowledge over the last 150 years. Richard C. Atkinson, President of the Nagasaki University of Foreign Studies, asserts, “We are living

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Giving with Confidence

One last post on this week’s theme of charitable giving. When Warren Buffett offered a large portion of his fortune to the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, he underscored the fact that

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Merry Christmas

There is something about religious holidays — no matter one’s beliefs — that seems to bring out the best in people. When it is a holiday like Christmas, with its emphasis on

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Thinking of Others this Holiday Season

Similar organizations often have similar objectives. Most governments are formed to “establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, [and] promote the general welfare.” Almost every organized religion has among

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Beyond Abu Ghraib

You generally have to watch old war films on the Turner Classic Movie channel to see one in which the military is shown in a positive light. More often, the military is

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Chasing the Dream — in China

Despite all the tough talk being spouted by U.S. presidential candidates about cracking down on illegal immigration, there are still millions of immigrants dreaming of a better life in the United States.

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