In most enterprises, business processes are automated in isolation, creating “automation silos” — a major barrier to realizing the fuller potential of enterprise-wide integrated automation. Businesses must take a more strategic approach if they are to break automation silos. This Advisor identifies four key considerations that should go into planning for smart automation 2.0.

AI-powered educational applications hold the promise of helping to narrow the learning gap by providing educational opportunities to people of all ages regardless of gender, economic/social status, or the availability of established schools and other traditional educational resources. This Advisor examines the use of AI for personalized learning and enhanced online/distance learning platforms in the form of cloud-based and mobile applications and provides some examples of commercial AI-powered educational applications.

Will legacy and new auto manufacturing entrants be nimble and resilient enough to adapt their business models as the industry shifts to EVs? How can AI be used to detect or even prevent a wildfire occurrence? Find out in this latest edition of The Cutter Edge!

Will legacy and new auto manufacturing entrants be nimble and resilient enough to adapt their business models as the industry shifts to EVs? How can AI be used to detect or even prevent a wildfire occurrence? Find out in this latest edition of The Cutter Edge!

Why is it so challenging for business units to learn, share, and replicate best innovation practices across the organization? Innovation excellence professionals are invited to join the discussion!

Replicating best practice across business units is fundamental to improving innovation performance, but research shows that it happens far less than expected. Learn why this happens — and how businesses can overcome the challenge.

Enterprise agility is created by looking at value streams and optimizing them end to end. This Advisor explores how value streams work, how customer value is created, and how to remove obstacles to customer value creation.

Green IT and green initiatives are now a key agenda for enterprises and governments and are driven by the benefits they offer and several ongoing developments, such as concerns about climate change, government regulations, and peer pressure and influence. This Advisor outlines the strategies and steps that will help you implement a Green IT approach in your enterprise.

This Advisor explores how business architecture stakeholder mapping can assist a healthy circular economy implementation by specifying the value stream scenarios where different stakeholders extract value propositions across a value cycle, enabling the cycle to start and be sustained.

AI certainly challenges our under­standing of what intelligence is, not to mention our belief in the inherent superiority of human thinking over machines. But the causes of mistrust go beyond these existential considerations, as are identified in this Advisor.

This Executive Update first reviews cloud basics then looks at lessons learned from past on-premises development and deployment applications and how these apply to SaaS. It then examines some additional challenges SaaS brings to organizations, including the underlying reasons why SaaS projects can fail.

This Executive Update first reviews cloud basics then looks at lessons learned from past on-premises development and deployment applications and how these apply to SaaS. It then examines some additional challenges SaaS brings to organizations, including the underlying reasons why SaaS projects can fail.

AI can help students receive personalized lessons, pro­vide educators with deep insights into students’ learning styles, revolutionize skills improvement for professionals, and lower the cost of education. This Advisor lays out the key benefits AI-based education offers over traditional instruction modes.

This Advisor takes a brief look at how quantum computers work. You'll discover how quantum processors evaluate multiple variables simultaneously, which means simulations can include as many interacting variables as there are qubits.

From mid-2020 to early 2021, Cutter Consortium conducted a survey on how organizations are adopting, or planning to adopt, intelligent process automation (IPA). In this Advisor, we examine survey findings pertaining to how organizations view the success of their IPA efforts so far and whether they believe the technology will eventually live up to expectations.

In Part VIII of this Executive Update series on IPA in the enterprise, we examine findings concerning the major challenges organizations indicate are hindering their efforts to apply IPA.

Pursuing digital transformation involves a deep focus on the nature of the data being used in the organization, the services being exposed around that data, and what business use cases are being improved and reimagined through the use and recomposition of these new services. This Advisor explores three common failure areas that emerge in transformations.

Pursuing digital transformation involves a deep focus on the nature of the data being used in the organization, the services being exposed around that data, and what business use cases are being improved and reimagined through the use and recomposition of these new services. This Advisor explores three common failure areas that emerge in transformations.

In this webinar, William Ulrich shows you how you can define and validate your organization’s data architecture to inform data transformation requirements, and provide a foundation for IT investments.

How can you leverage blockchain and a new pool of gig economy entrepreneurs to craft and enable new winning business models? How does taking an architectural approach to sustainability initiatives improve your chances of success? Find out all this and more in the latest issue of The Cutter Edge.

Higher expectations of customer service and trends in online fraud are forcing government agencies and businesses alike to modernize their digital identity management systems as more people engage with online services. As we explore in this Advisor, this includes employing applications — in the form of cloud platforms and services licensed from commercial providers — that integrate machine learning (ML), machine vision, and biometrics combined with mobile access in order to automate the verification and authentication of government-issued IDs and other documents.

In this Executive Update we explore Agile principles and practices under the lens of business adoption of artificial intelligence.

Citizen development promises to improve enterprise productivity and accelerate value delivery, enabling organizations to achieve outcomes more quickly. This Advisor presents seven key recommendations for organizations undergoing or planning to pursue a digital transformation and adopt a citizen development (CD) initiative.