This issue focuses on key topics of interest for financial services organizations, namely equity crowdfunding, legacy systems migration, robo-advisors, test outsourcing, and refining the reconciliation process.

This issue focuses on key topics of interest for financial services organizations, namely equity crowdfunding, legacy systems migration, robo-advisors, test outsourcing, and refining the reconciliation process.

For financial institutions, regulatory reporting has become something of a jigsaw puzzle — one that must be cobbled together into a coherent picture from several boxes into which the pieces from different puzzles have been put over time, for an audience that will never appreciate the pain involved in organizing that picture or the time and manpower required to build it.

When it comes to IT systems in the customer care area, we keep arriving at the same idea: a trouble ticket reported by a customer and resolved in the scope of a customer care process. We organize all interactions around a process measured by key performance indicators (KPIs) and optimized for efficiency metrics, ignoring the fact that it is not process efficiency that our customers value. This Executive Update provides an alternative: a Semantic Web–based view of customer care solutions.

Today, the raft of truly disruptive and empowering consumer technologies is both unprecedented and, to a large extent, unpredictable in its consequences for businesses of all sizes and for society as a whole. This Executive Update charts the digital transformation of Mass Mitec, a UK-based small-to-medium enterprise, via a disruptive digital technology in the 1990s and uses the story as an illustration of the potential and dangers of digital disruption.

Here comes the automation of innovation. Organizations that move quickly and introduce these systems are going to be well placed to gain insights that will give them serious competitive advantages to their more staid competitors.

This Advisor identifies four actions we can take to encourage others to contribute and collaborate in a group setting.

Through updates and case studies, Whynde Kuehn provides useful insights for established business architecture practices as well as for teams just starting their business architecture journey. In this on-demand webinar Kuehn shares lessons from the trenches — business architecture in the real world.

For your EA program to “climb the ladder” to strategic relevance, one of the most important investments is in an integrated business architecture practice.

I predict that within the next three years the market for blockchain solutions will have progressed to the extent that the key infrastructure components will be available, security issues will be identified and mapped out, and experts available in applying the technology to specific applications and industries will start becoming available, thus providing the support for implementing and running blockchain applications on a daily operational basis.

Organizations today are constantly executing their corporate digitization strategies, requiring CIOs and IT leaders to engage with business stakeholders to deliver specific outcomes. Such engagement must be governed by the organization’s processes, operating model, and technology governance to ensure robust, scalable architectures and roadmaps.

This Advisor presents an overview of improving Agile techniques and practices by using design thinking within the Agile space and describes three techniques from design thinking methodologies that tend to yield benefits to Agile practitioners.

Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies are a borderless means for indiscriminate global economic participation. This will make it a significant part of the financial industry.

This Advisor discusses how scaling architectural process and artifacts to suit Agile practices enhances the value of the architect's role.

In this Update, we continue our discussion of mitigating business risk by examining the benefits of contextual software analysis and reviewing some of the static code analysis tools available today that can help track down defects at both the component level and the overall system level.

Innovation's potential is brought to fruition only when it is complemented by back-end cloud technologies.

This Executive Update is the second in a series focusing on the role of business architecture as a critical enabler of organizations to effectively operate, transform, and compete.

This Executive Update examines survey findings pertaining to the issues organizations say are challenging their blockchain adoption efforts.

This Executive Update examines survey findings pertaining to the issues organizations say are challenging their blockchain adoption efforts.

There is no technology that will allow us to generate more time or produce a substitute for time, but technological advances do enable more efficient use of time, thus maximizing its utility.

The EVM method was first developed to help manage complex R&D projects, which are mostly characterized by an unstable, volatile, and evolving scope. It is therefore no surprise that EVM applies to Agile projects.

Successful digital transformation requires strategic architecture thinking.

In this Executive Report, we expand on a previous report on robotic process automation and cognitive automation by establishing action principles for service automation strategy, service automation launch, change management, and building mature service automation capabilities.

In this Executive Report, we expand on a previous report on robotic process automation and cognitive automation by establishing action principles for service automation strategy, service automation launch, change management, and building mature service automation capabilities.

The accompanying Executive Report is the second of two in a Cutter series on smart service automation. It provides rich insights into 20 client organizations and how they achieved high performance in their adoption of robotic process automation (RPA) and cognitive automation (CA) tools.