Enterra Insights

Month: March 2009

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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Looking for the Next Big Idea

BusinessWeek periodically publishes a special section on innovation. It’s latest report was published in the March 23 & 30, 2009, print issue. The first thing that caught my eye in the section

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Innovations from Emerging Market Economies

In a draft report entitled, “Innovation Shift” to the Emerging Economies: Cases from IT and Heavy Industries, Leonard Lynn and Hal Salzman wrote: “In a widely accepted interpretation, Alfred Chandler (1990) attributed

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Persistent Ocean Surveillance

A couple of years ago Enterra Solutions® Senior Director for Communications and Research, Bradd Hayes, supported a Chief of Naval Operations (CNO) effort to develop a new maritime strategy. Specifically, he helped

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The Emergence of North Africa

For decades, the Maghreb has been best known for being part of the arc of crisis that begins at Gibraltar and ends in Pakistan. Maghreb is an Arabic word meaning “place of

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Belief and Business

As president and CEO of a company that conducts business internationally, I must be aware of cultural differences in how business is conducted in the countries I visit. Although most business people

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Trading Up or Trading Down?

The current financial recession (which is quickly becoming the Great Recession) has exposed people to topics that would not have been the subjects of casual conversation in previous decades. One of those

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All Atwitter

Anyone with any interest in technology, connectivity, Web 2.0, and similar topics has at least heard of Twitter, a microblogging service that has become the rage for teenagers and young adults. It

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