Enterra Insights

Month: October 2010

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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Should You Become an Entrepreneur?

John Seely Brown, the former chief scientist at Xerox Corp. and former director of the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center (PARC), wrote a short article about people who found themselves unemployed taking

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Rethinking Supply Chains

I’ve written a number of posts over the past few years about the importance of breaking down silos of activity and information that inevitably emerge in large organizations. Breaking down silos requires

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PRTM Identifies Five Supply Chain Challenges

A study by PRTM Management Consultants titled Lessons Learned from the Global Recession identifies five key challenges that manufacturing and service companies will face over the next several years [“PRTM study highlights

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China and the Rare Earths Conundrum

There have been a number of articles written over the past few months discussing China’s stranglehold on the rare earth market. For more background on this subject, read my post entitled The

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Luring Customers in the Information Age

In several past posts, I’ve noted how on-line sales have affected the future of traditional brick-and-mortar stores. Bookstores have perhaps been the hardest hit. The electronics sector has also been hit with

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A Few Thoughts on Order Management

In blog she wrote while with AMR Research, Lora Cecere talked about the vision of Brad Blizzard, Senior Director of Logistics at Colgate [“Brad Has A Dream,” Connecting the Dots, 30 October

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Update on Masdar City

Back in early 2009, I wrote a post about the zero-carbon city that was being planned in the United Arab Emirates (Abu Dhabi’s Masdar Plan). Despite the global recession (which hit Dubai

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Critical Infrastructure and Worms

Perhaps you have been following the story about “computer systems at Iran’s first nuclear-power plant [that] have been infected with a potent worm capable of taking over their control systems” [“Computer Worm

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