Enterra Insights

Month: February 2016

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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Millennials are Shaping a New Kind of Economy

“As shoppers,” writes Tanya Gazdik Irwin (@Tanyairwin), “Millennials are different from older generations.”[1] I’m not sure why Irwin restricted her differentiation of millennials from older generations to shopping. She could have just

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Industry 4.0: The Fourth Industrial Revolution

“As an industry,” writes Kimberly Knickle (@kimknickle), Research Vice President at IDC Manufacturing Insights, “manufacturing is ‘hot’.”[1] She reports that manufacturers are expected to spend upwards of $323 billion on external IT

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Always On: The Internet of Everything

Over sixteen years ago, my friend Dr. Thomas P.M. Barnett (@thomaspmbarnett) wrote, “The defining achievement of the New Economy in the globalization era will be the Evernet, a downstream expression of today’s

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