Computing inspired by the design of brains is rapidly progressing. Very rapidly.

We are living in a time of technological revolution, globalization, uncertainty, and economic crises. The Internet of Things (IoT) is one such disruption. Consequently, there will be a demand for leadership in the fast-growing and disruptive IoT sector. In this Executive Update, we try to identify the leader's role in an IoT enterprise and point out potential leadership pitfalls.

We are living in a time of technological revolution, globalization, uncertainty, and economic crises. The Internet of Things (IoT) is one such disruption. Consequently, there will be a demand for leadership in the fast-growing and disruptive IoT sector. In this Executive Update, we try to identify the leader's role in an IoT enterprise and point out potential leadership pitfalls.

Empowerment doesn't mean "do what you want" but rather "do what is needed to reach your goals."

The ability to attain strategic and organizational agility directly relates to the organization's ability to prepare stakeholders for change. In other words, a sustained state of change readiness coincides with the ability to attain organizational agility. Among other practices, it is vital to manage change in an organized way that is pervasive and well understood across the organization.

With the increasing adoption of enterprise architecture (EA), organizations face many challenges in how to measure and demonstrate the value that EA provides to an enterprise. This Executive Report describes a process for deriving EA value metrics that align with the value drivers particular to an organization -- those important to both the core business capabilities of the organization as well as its key stakeholders.

This Appendix to Methods for Defining and Analyzing Key EA Performance Metrics illustrates metrics that have been used to measure aspects of EA value.

The Internet of Things (IoT) is going to have a tremendous impact on environmental protection. This will come about from end-user companies, researchers, the media, environmental watchdog groups, and even ordinary citizens using wireless sensors, video cameras, and drones for real-time environmental monitoring, pollution control, and facilities management and maintenance.

The Internet of Things (IoT) is going to have a tremendous impact on environmental protection. This will come about from end-user companies, researchers, the media, environmental watchdog groups, and even ordinary citizens using wireless sensors, video cameras, and drones for real-time environmental monitoring, pollution control, and facilities management and maintenance.

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This Executive Update -- Part III of a series -- focuses on survey findings pertaining to mobile application development trends and the issues confronting organizations with implementing their initiatives, including primary obstacles and issues affecting corporate mobility adoption/implementation efforts, mobile application development trends, corporate use of mobile device management platforms, and corporate use of enterprise app stores.

This Executive Update -- Part III of a series -- focuses on survey findings pertaining to mobile application development trends and the issues confronting organizations with implementing their initiatives, including primary obstacles and issues affecting corporate mobility adoption/implementation efforts, mobile application development trends, corporate use of mobile device management platforms, and corporate use of enterprise app stores.

I live in the greater Washington, DC, metropolitan area, and, as a result, have the joy of experiencing some of the worst traffic in the US. Couple that with the winter weather, and it can turn into a real nightmare. I grew up in Ohio. I have lived in Maine. I've seen snow. And I've seen snow managed well. Yet, every year, the Washington area experiences its fair share of snowfall. And every year, the local authorities act like they're surprised. "It SNOWED! WOW! Who knew?" There are never enough plows, salt, and stamina to stand up even against a dusting. The area is hobbled.

A software project can, of course, be characterized by various parameters. We recommend starting with the (elusively) simple question of the intrinsic nature of the project.

In this Executive Update, we review recent cases demonstrating that old-school brick-and-mortar insurance policies (CGL and D&O) provide coverage for technology risks. The goal is to assist companies in finding coverage in their existing policies for what has become, in the age of the Internet, as common as shipping losses were when modern insurance was created.

Manufacturing and process industries are making extensive use of sensors, mobile, and other Internet of Things (IoT) technologies to connect, monitor, and measure equipment, vehicles, material, and processes. This trend is starting to accelerate and is expected to continue doing so for the foreseeable future.

This Executive Update explains what architecture quality attributes are, and why they are one of the critical focus areas of an architect's scope of effort.

DevOps requires greater communication and coordination between development and operations in order to facilitate the rapid releases of working software. It is based around principles that have become well established in Agile development and are accelerating with mobility. Apps need to be developed and deployed rapidly, updated regularly, and they have to respond immediately to user demands. The need for apps to integrate with existing enterprise software is pushing DevOps ideas deeper into the development environment.

Essentially, business activity monitoring (BAM) data, which is collected and produced by a business process management (BPM)-type application, is just another subset of BI within the organization. BAM data may be pushed to a big data repository, but a BAM repository should never be used for big data analysis. BAM environments are characterized by online, real-time users, where throughput and performance are paramount. BAM queries and reports should be targeted to simple operational status views against optimized, normalized tables.

Essentially, business activity monitoring (BAM) data, which is collected and produced by a business process management (BPM)-type application, is just another subset of BI within the organization. BAM data may be pushed to a big data repository, but a BAM repository should never be used for big data analysis. BAM environments are characterized by online, real-time users, where throughput and performance are paramount. BAM queries and reports should be targeted to simple operational status views against optimized, normalized tables.

If we use measures properly, we do so to improve our business, organization, or our lives. In this respect, there are many times when having some data is not better than having none.

If we use measures properly, we do so to improve our business, organization, or our lives. In this respect, there are many times when having some data is not better than having none.

Business intelligence (BI), big data, and analytics have emerged as three of the most important business trends of the 21st century. This trajectory has unfolded from the convergence of the following technology advancements:

Although not many organizations are fully Agile at this time, those that are display the following qualities:

DevOps is more than a set of tools and scripts used to make software operations easier within a software engineering group. DevOps is also a set of principles based on the belief that when an organization improves its deployment frequency, it will find success with a faster time to market, a lower failure rate on new releases, a shorter time between reporting bugs and deploying fixes in production, and a heightened ability to respond to production operations issues. Increased deployment frequency leads to increased profitability due to these successes. As we explore in this Executive Update, when an organization begins an internal DevOps initiative, it will find that it needs architectural changes for its desires to come to fruition.