Enterra Insights

Month: October 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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Challenges of Commodity Economies

Happy Halloween! This is a great holiday to remind us of scary things — like volatile commodity markets. I have occasionally written about the challenges faced by developing countries whose economies rely

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An Update on Zombies

October is the month known for witches, ghouls, ghosts, and skeletons because it ends with the holiday of Halloween. It seems like a good time to do an update on Zombies and

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The Future of Emerging Markets

As the global economy continues to roil, one has to wonder whether emerging economies are going to lose their wheels as they traverse the rough road ahead. Just before the worst of

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Egypt’s Uncertain Future

For a country with a long and glorious past, Egypt faces a very uncertain future. Until oil money relocated the center of Arabic power and prestige to the Persian Gulf, Egypt had

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Books Forever

Librarians, by nature (or at least by reputation), are conservative people. The stereotype is Meredith Wilson’s “Marion the librarian” in his musical The Music Man. Librarians also have a very long time horizon when

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Agents of Change

Jack Welch, former CEO of General Electric, and his wife Suzy, former editor of the Harvard Business Review, write a weekly column for BusinessWeek in which they answer selected reader questions. A

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When does Connectivity Narrow Thinking?

Two frequent topics of this blog have been connectivity and innovation. I’m in favor of both. An article in The Economist, however, raises the intriguing question: “Is the web narrowing scientists’ expertise?”

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Warren Buffett on Greed and Fear

When Warren Buffett, the so-called “Oracle of Omaha,” speaks, people listen — or at least they should. He is one of the world’s most successful investors (and, hence, one of the world’s

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