Enterra Insights

Month: August 2013

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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Some Thoughts About Disruptive Innovations

Helge Tennø, a Digital Director at Dinamo AS in Oslo, Norway, recently penned an interesting blog in which he connected Kevin Kelly’s thinking about technology with Clayton Christensen’s thinking about disruptive innovation.

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Messing with Your Mind

“The era of robots learning and reacting the same way humans do may still be in the realm of science fiction,” writes the editorial team at No Camels, “but a young Israeli

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Preparing for Supply Chain Disruptions

“After tsunamis, protests, wildfires, and riots — to name just a few recent major disruptions — few managers can be unaware of companies’ vulnerability to the vagaries of politics and extreme weather,”

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Quantum Computing and Machine Learning

“The brain performs its canonical task — learning — by tweaking its myriad connections according to a secret set of rules,” writes Natalie Wolchover. “To unlock these secrets, scientists 30 years ago

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Supply Chain Management and the Future

“Supply chain management, as a practice in commercial operations,” writes Lora Cecere, “is now thirty years old.” [“Why?” Supply Chain Shaman, 19 June 2013] As she looks back over the past three

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The Next Billion Consumers

Bain & Company analysts Wlademir Gomes, Louis Lim, Robert Schaus, and David Cooper, report, “The global marketplace is minting a new set of consumers that’s bigger than the current shopping base of

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