Enterra Insights

Month: October 2011

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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Supply Chain Sustainability Takes Root

Steve Hall, Deputy Editor of Procurement Leaders, asks an interesting question in a blog entitled “Sustainability: When is it your problem? [“Procurement Blog, 21 January 2011] What inspired him to write his

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Supply Chain Performance

Companies are forever trying to come up with clever names to support the solutions they are pushing. I admit that we’re no different at Enterra Solutions. Product names and catchy slogans can

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The "Big Data" Dialogues, Part 4

In Part 3 of these on-going dialogues about big data, I discussed a couple of software tools that are widely used to crunch large data bases: MapReduce and Hadoop. In that post,

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