Enterra Insights

Month: September 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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Innovation Economics

When the cloud of economic dust created by the implosion of large U.S. financial institutions finally begins to settle, some optimistic analysts believe that the U.S. economy that will emerge from the

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The Importance of Human Security

Nigeria is one of Africa’s oil-rich nations with an estimated 35 billion barrels of oil reserves. It is also the poster child for the “curse of oil” [see my post More on

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Globalizing Poor Farmers

Two years ago I wrote a post focused on the announcement that the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation had teamed with the Rockefeller Foundation to tackle food security in Africa. Their plan

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Campaigns and Lies

Because this is a corporate blog and not a political one, I normally steer clear of political issues. This post is no different. Although it focuses on studies that touch on why

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Looking at the World Optimistically

In the New Testament, one of the Apostle Paul’s letters to the Corinthians says, “For now we see through a glass, darkly.” Over recent weeks the glass, it seems, has grown darker.

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Water and Energy in Tajikistan

Last August I wrote a post about growing concerns over the availability of water [The Coming Water Wars?]. Water is like most natural resources, some countries have more of it than others.

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Developments in Africa

When discussing development, Africa is almost always in the conversation. So much of the poverty, disease, conflict and bad governance in the world is found on that continent that most people turn

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Wall Street and Emerging Markets

Amidst all the bad news continuing to emanate from Wall Street and the accusations of corruption, greed and incompetence aimed at corporate executives who permitted it to occur, Americans haven’t take much

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From Solar Power to Kid Power

Massachusetts set off a bit of a firestorm when it recently passed legislation requiring that 15 percent of the power purchased by utility companies operating in the state must be from renewable

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