Enterra Insights

Month: August 2008

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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Updates on Solar Energy

Yesterday, Barack Obama accepted the Democratic Party’s nomination to run for the office of the President of the United States. Nothing surprising there — he has been the presumptive nominee for some

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Hard Times for Aid Workers

Beyond the occasional advertisements pleading for donations, we seldom hear or think about the thousands of aid workers laboring around the globe to relieve suffering caused by poverty, manmade crises, or natural

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Water Challenges in Israel

In two earlier posts [The Future of Desalination and Food and Water Shortages in the Middle East], I discussed how water shortages are affecting the globe and some of the ways those

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The Need for Jobs in Iraq

No country can flourish if it has a toxic combination of high unemployment, rising inflation, and a large public payroll. Unfortunately, that is exactly the position in which southern Iraq finds itself

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China’s Real Quest for Gold

As the Beijing Olympics come to a close, Washington Post columnist Robert J. Samuelson uses the moment to reflect on China’s long-range goals and how they might affect the world’s future [“The

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Changing Society One Soap at a Time

Mass media has always protested that its influence is greatly exaggerated. Although relief workers assert that the “CNN effect” is real, by which they mean that the crisis that gets the most

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