Enterra Insights

Month: September 2012

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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Meet Baxter — Your New Co-worker

In yesterday’s post (Robots and the Future of Manufacturing), I discussed the impact that robots are having (and will likely to have) on jobs and manufacturing in the future. As I noted

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Robots and the Future of Manufacturing

British entrepreneur Luke Johnson writes, “Modern plants use robots and increasingly few workers and run day and night, 365 days a year.” [“Making it in the new industrial revolution,” Financial Times, 28

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Walmart Strikes a Blow Against Showrooming

Big retailers remain concerned about the practice of “showrooming,” which involves customers coming into their stores to check out merchandise but then purchasing those items online through outlets like Amazon. In a

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Algorithms and Targeted Marketing, Part 2

“Increasingly, the largest retailers in markets across the country are employing sophisticated personalized marketing,” writes Gary Hawkins, CEO of Hawkins Strategic. [“Will Big Data Kill All But the Biggest Retailers?” Harvard Business

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Algorithms and Targeted Marketing, Part 1

In a review of the book Automate This, Richard Waters writes, “Christopher Steiner makes a big claim for the mathematical formulas that underpin technology. ‘The ability to create algorithms that imitate, better,

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Real Innovation versus Continuous Improvement

“Six Sigma, Kaizen, Lean, and other variations on continuous improvement can be hazardous to your organization’s health,” writes Ron Ashkenas, a managing partner of Schaffer Consulting. [“It’s Time to Rethink Continuous Improvement,”

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Green Supply Chains

Jason Mathers, project director for the Environmental Defense Fund, told the editorial staff at SupplyChainBrain that “there are four driving forces in efforts to build sustainability into logistics operations today. … They

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Supply Chain Risk and Resiliency

“In a way, it’s laughable,” writes Robert J. Bowman, managing editor of SupplyChainBrain, “that we would even attempt to identify the ‘most likely’ disasters that could affect global supply chains. The ones

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