Fiducia ex Machina
Jon Geater
Many think that the more power that we vest in machines, the more harm they will do. But what if we could reverse that? What if we could harness AI and other digital technology to achieve fiducia ex machina: “trust from the machines”?
The Case for Environmental Intelligence Solutions
San Murugesan
Environmental intelligence (EI) is an effective combined use of data science, AI, and other digital technologies such as IoT to provide the meaningful insight needed to address these challenges and mitigate the effects of environmental change. This Advisor examines how EI can help in collecting and analyzing environmental data to understand the cause and impact of environmental changes and to predict potential environmental risks facing us.
Pursuing Sustainability Through Business Architecture
William Ulrich, Giovanni Traverso
Discover the role of business architecture in transitioning an organization into becoming a player in the sustainable economy, while concurrently meeting other essential business objectives.
How AI Subfields Are Advancing Product Development
Michael Jastram
There are many artificial intelligence subfields that have the potential to help us overcome the limitations of current product development approaches, each at a different development level. This Advisor explores four of these subfields: natural language processing, machine learning, interactive AI, and training data.
IPA in the Enterprise, Part IX: Viable Use Cases
Curt Hall
In Part IX of this Executive Update series, we examine findings covering the use cases that organizations view as most viable for applying IPA.
Changing the Way Your Business Operates with AI
Bhuvan Unhelkar
As businesses strive to maximize customer value, many are moving towards the adoption of AI to enable better organizational agility and flexibility to meet customer demands. This Advisor explores the value propositions and considerations for businesses contemplating AI adoption.
Simplifying Architecture in an Agile Environment
Avinash Malik
Many Agile processes place architects too far from the development activities. This Advisor explores the roles of engineering lead, solution architect, and enterprise architect, and asserts that if we allow some grey area between the roles of an architect and an engineering lead, two roles work better than three.
Steps to Greener IT, Digital ID & Fraud Prevention Trends, more!
Cutter Consortium
How can you move toward developing a holistic, comprehensive green IT strategy in your enterprise? What AI-based platform is the State of California, LinkedIn, and even the rock band KISS using to verify IDs and prevent fraud? Find out in this edition of The Cutter Edge!
Optimizing Business Processes with Intelligent Document Processing
Curt Hall
According to a Cutter survey examining the adoption of intelligent process automation (IPA), nearly 60% of organizations identified accelerated document processing as the number one use case for applying IPA in the enterprise. If you think about it, this makes sense because document processing is a huge bottleneck for companies across almost every industry and for most government agencies. This Advisor explores the adoption of IPA including the goals, benefits, industry developments, and major automation vendors who have added intelligent document processing to their platforms
Enhancing Digital Journeys with Effective CIAM Solution
Konrad Pfeffer, Nick Bartlett
A first step for customer organizations in most digital journeys is an effective CIAM solution that will help connect various applications and systems. As we explore in this Executive Update, delegating administrative activities within your CIAM solution through a tenant approach can allow your digital products to scale.
Trust in AI: Is This the Fork in the Road?
Claude Baudoin, Clayton Pummill
We have control over whether AI will be a trusted aide to humanity or a threat. But we need a number of convergent approaches to be able to choose the right path. Ultimately, this amounts to AI governance.
Citizen Development Improves IT Delivery and Speeds Strategic Development
Ronan Hughes
There are a number of ways citizen development (CD) adoption can accelerate the intended benefits of IT change programs, streamline business cases and proposals, and deliver real savings. This Advisor explores how citizen development and low-code/no-code can add value, even when considering worst-case scenarios.
Citizen Development Improves IT Delivery and Speeds Strategic Development
Ronan Hughes
There are a number of ways citizen development (CD) adoption can accelerate the intended benefits of IT change programs, streamline business cases and proposals, and deliver real savings. This Advisor explores how citizen development and low-code/no-code can add value, even when considering worst-case scenarios.
Top 3 Challenges to Utilizing Enterprise IPA
Curt Hall
In a recent Cutter Consortium survey, we examined findings concerning the major challenges organizations indicate are hindering their efforts to apply IPA. In this Advisor, we take a closer look at the top three of these challenges: IPA is still an emerging technology, issues identifying applicable use cases, and the complexity of IPA development/implementation.
The Cybersecurity Executive Order: A Stimulus to Realign Your Model
Balaji Prasad
On 12 May 2021, the US White House issued a presidential executive order (EO) on improving the nation’s cybersecurity. The purpose of this Advisor is to point to this EO as a resource that enterprises should study in some depth as well as to use it as a context to highlight ways to think more fundamentally and timelessly about cybersecurity.
The Cybersecurity Executive Order: A Stimulus to Realign Your Model
Balaji Prasad
On 12 May 2021, the US White House issued a presidential executive order (EO) on improving the nation’s cybersecurity. The purpose of this Advisor is to point to this EO as a resource that enterprises should study in some depth as well as to use it as a context to highlight ways to think more fundamentally and timelessly about cybersecurity.
When Good Data Goes Bad, Part IV
Barry Devlin
In a world increasingly dominated by artificial intelligence (AI) in its various guises, the danger of good data going bad — what we might call “data rot” — is becoming pervasive and dangerous. In this fourth Advisor of my series, I consider a couple of real — and possibly unexpected — ways the rot can set in.
Implementing AI: 4 Critical Steps for Success
Steven Kursh, Arthur Schnure
Organizations need to address several issues across four critical steps to make AI work to their best advantage: (1) assess business needs, (2) seek skilled AI people and train staff, (3) identify AI machine learning input data, and (4) choose AI and ML tools. This Executive Update addresses each of the four steps and offers recommendations.
Implementing AI: 4 Critical Steps for Success
Steven Kursh, Arthur Schnure
Organizations need to address several issues across four critical steps to make AI work to their best advantage: (1) assess business needs, (2) seek skilled AI people and train staff, (3) identify AI machine learning input data, and (4) choose AI and ML tools. This Executive Update addresses each of the four steps and offers recommendations.
To Unlock the Next Big Promotion, Leaders Must Up Their Career AQ
Noah Barsky
Note from the author: While I often write about organizations and technologies, this Advisor is a bit of a (related and important) tangent, as it focuses on career advancement. Invariably, in working with executives and rising leaders, particularly technology professionals and consultants, conversations turn to career challenges. I have long wanted to author a piece that captures an effective approach that, over many years, has resonated well with business professionals aiming for a promotion and meaningful career advancement.
Agile Versus Reality: Four Common Problems
Jacek Chmiel
Many of Agile’s practices and base assumptions were and are unrealistic, and some have become obsolete in our present digital world. We need new solutions — software developers would call it a major refactoring. It’s likely you will recognize some of these suggestions as changes you’ve already made to address the flaws of the original Agile methodologies. For those who have just become Agile believers, this may come as more of a surprise. This Advisor goes through four common problems with Agile versus reality and discusses possible solutions.
Mitigating Risk in SaaS Development & Deployment
Steven Kursh, Arthur Schnure
In this Advisor, we examine the risks of software-as-a-service (SaaS) development and deployment. Specifically, we outline seven related suggestions to mitigate risk.
Emerging Trends and Opportunities Made Possible by Fintech
Kevin O'Leary
Discover how fintech can support businesses to not only reopen post-pandemic, but also to develop a robust digital infrastructure that will support growth into the future.
Emerging Trends and Opportunities Made Possible by Fintech
Kevin O'Leary
Discover how fintech can support businesses to not only reopen post-pandemic, but also to develop a robust digital infrastructure that will support growth into the future.
Methods for Evaluating Software Architecture
Simon Field
This Advisor explores the use of the ISO/IEC 25010 quality model as a software architecture evaluation method. You'll discover how this model offers a common language for describing architecturally significant quality characteristics across the organization and creates the potential for comparison across projects and their architecture reviews.
