Enterra Insights

Year: 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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Big Data Dilemmas

We’ve all heard the old saying, “There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.” The adage has been variously attributed to the 19th-century British Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli and

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McCormick® Flavor Forecast® 2013

The end of the old year and beginning of the new year traditionally finds pundits offering their predictions about what the future is likely to hold. When it comes to predicting what

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Managing Robots

“In Isaac Asimov’s classic series of short stories I, Robot,” writes Tim Criswell, President of Wynright Robotics, “he lists the first law of robotics as, ‘A robot may not injure a human

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More Supply Chain Talent Needed

“Members of today’s supply chain teams are busy,” writes Lora Cecere, founder of Supply Chain Insights. “Business complexity is rising and teams are trying to get to data and align the organization

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3D Printing Comes of Age, Part 3

TechShop is “a three-story workshop in [San Francisco] city outfitted with 3-D printers, laser cutters and other sophisticated tools to develop products and prototypes.” [“A Shop to Build Your Hit Product, by

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3D Printing Comes of Age, Part 2

In Part 1 of this series, I asserted that 3D Printing (or additive manufacturing) is likely to be one of the next disruptive technologies that alters the business landscape — assuming legal

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