Artificial Intelligence

Three converging events reveal a single crisis: our strategic frameworks for managing complexity are failing just as AI systems become too opaque to govern. A five-part essay series exploring solutions launches next week.

Global Value Chains

The K-shaped economy divides Americans: wealthy households thrive with asset appreciation while lower-income families face structural disadvantages. Top 10% now account for half of all consumer spending.

Global Value Chains

Supply chains face escalating cybersecurity threats across logistics, fraud, and operational technology. Experts urge collaboration, proactive risk mapping, and AI-powered defenses to combat increasingly sophisticated, AI-driven attacks targeting interconnected global systems.

Artificial Intelligence

Artificial Intelligence

Supply chains must evolve from digitalization to AI-powered orchestration for proactive decision-making. Enterra Solutions' System of Intelligence enables autonomous optimization across planning, execution, and learning, representing supply chain management's future.

Artificial Intelligence

Extreme AI narratives overshadow practical conversations. AI should be viewed as normal technology. Small Language Models provide focused, efficient solutions for businesses seeking measurable returns on investments, avoiding extreme prophecies.

Artificial Intelligence

Agentic commerce—AI agents making purchases for consumers—could generate $1-5 trillion by 2030. Though 95% of consumers harbor concerns, retailers must invest immediately in agentic capabilities or risk disintermediation.

Artificial Intelligence

Retailers must adapt to consumer trends like agentic AI, shoppertainment, and phygital experiences while simultaneously transforming supply chains through regionalization, purposeful technology deployment, and connected global networks to stay competitive.

Global Value Chains

Recent studies challenge cheese's unhealthy reputation, showing that daily consumption of about 1.5 ounces may reduce heart disease and stroke risk. High-fat cheese is also linked to lower dementia risk.

Artificial Intelligence

2025 brought geopolitical volatility and AI transformation. Enterra evolved to AI-platform company, focusing on trustworthy systems that deliver value amid fragmented global order. 2026 demands disciplined scaling and technological differentiation.

Peace and Stability Operations

Artificial Intelligence

Human Rights Day underscores the $236 billion impact of forced labor on global supply chains. AI technology provides unprecedented visibility into tracking exploitation across complex networks, thereby making ethical sourcing increasingly feasible.

Quantum Computing

Light is a wave and a particle. It holds the key to quantum computers, which could revolutionize many fields from physics to finance. Quantum computers use qubits (not bits) and can perform calculations much faster than classical computers. Scientists in China achieved quantum supremacy with a machine that manipulates photons (light particles). This is a significant step towards a universal quantum computer.

Quantum Computing

Real teleportation from Star Trek isn't possible, but scientists achieved quantum teleportation - transferring information, not matter. This can be used for ultra-secure communication and a quantum internet. Quantum teleportation is a step towards quantum computers, which could solve complex problems.

Artificial Intelligence

Cities are becoming crowded as people move there for jobs and better lives. Smart cities use data and AI to manage resources, improve livability, create jobs, and be sustainable. This requires integrating data from many sources and using AI to make decisions. Some worry about AI controlling cities but it can also improve decision-making. AI is a powerful tool that can benefit smart cities but needs to be used responsibly.

Artificial Intelligence

First ever AI lawyer to defend someone in court (traffic ticket). AI lawyer is an app that listens and advises defendant through earpiece. This could disrupt legal profession. AI company DoNotPay aims to help fight unfair charges from large corporations. App has been successful in getting parking tickets dismissed. Legal community pushback forced DoNotPay to abandon using AI in court.