Tales from the Technology Crypt
Lou Mazzucchelli
A 10-month timeline, the biggest budget the company ever committed to a "programming project," and a guy who is in way over his head. Sounds like the perfect IT horror story (spoiler alert: our hero and his project survive!)
Low-Code/No-Code-Enabled Citizen Developers: A Q&A
Greg Smith, Michael Papadopoulos
A recent webinar explored how "citizen developers" can use "low-code/no-code" (LC/NC) solutions with relatively low learning curves to help their organizations expand their digital capabilities and grow the business. This Advisor shares some of the answers to questions participants asked about LC/NC solutions.
Low-Code/No-Code-Enabled Citizen Developers: A Q&A
Greg Smith, Michael Papadopoulos
A recent webinar explored how "citizen developers" can use "low-code/no-code" (LC/NC) solutions with relatively low learning curves to help their organizations expand their digital capabilities and grow the business. This Advisor shares some of the answers to questions participants asked about LC/NC solutions.
Analytics Value Now! — An Introduction
Dave Cherry
When deriving value from an analytics initiative, it is important to consider context, analytics maturity, the risk/value proposition, and the culture of your organization. This issue of Cutter Business Technology Journal, with Guest Editor Dave Cherry, provides strategies and insight to amplify analytics value.
Architect for “Real-Ability”
Marc Gewertz
In much the same way ”design-for-producibility” is key to successful hardware production, “architect-for-real-ability” is key to capability realization. Everyone involved from the beginning in the specification, development, and operation of a capability needs to perform as, an organized, integrated team.
Computer Vision and Imaging in the Insurance Sector
Curt Hall
Computer vision and imaging technology is having a considerable impact in the insurance industry. A number of developments are driving this trend. From a product/market perspective, the growing availability of cloud platforms and services — including commercial computer vision and imaging applications tailored for specific insurance use cases — has made the technology more practical for insurers to implement. This Advisor explores the opportunities, benefits and applications of AI and computer vision in the insurance sector.
The Power and Peril of AI, Challenges to Low-Code Adoption, more!
Cutter Consortium
The edition of The Cutter Edge explores the power and peril of AI technology, challenges to low-code technology adoption as well as solutions, and more!
The Power and Peril of AI, Challenges to Low-Code Adoption, more!
Cutter Consortium
The edition of The Cutter Edge explores the power and peril of AI technology, challenges to low-code technology adoption as well as solutions, and more!
Managing Technical Debt for Application Modernization
Dan Sturtevant
Most legacy software assets house hidden blockers that put modernization efforts at risk. How can you get past these roadblocks? Start by managing technical debt for a giant leap forward in modernizing your applications. In this webinar, you'll discover strategies for modernizing your legacy software assets.
The Keys to Achieving Trust in AI
Claude Baudoin, Clayton Pummill
If the ultimate goal of artificial intelligence (AI) is to efficiently replicate and exceed human thought for the good of humanity, then building trust requires that AI incorporate the multitude of sound human decision capabilities. Just reading this statement makes it clear that the journey toward AI ethics is no easy road.
The Keys to Achieving Trust in AI
Claude Baudoin, Clayton Pummill
If the ultimate goal of artificial intelligence (AI) is to efficiently replicate and exceed human thought for the good of humanity, then building trust requires that AI incorporate the multitude of sound human decision capabilities. Just reading this statement makes it clear that the journey toward AI ethics is no easy road.
Ingredients for Enterprise Agility, Part V: Coaching Transformational Change
Jon Ward
The role of an Agile coach is not to do the organizational change, but to facilitate it. More explicitly, the coach’s role is to enable the organization to change itself. This Advisor explores the role of the Agile Coach in supporting and enabling enterprise agility.
3 Essential Technologies in Enterprise IPA Initiatives
Curt Hall
In this Advisor, we explore three critical technologies that organizations are interested in using to support their enterprise IPA initiatives: natural language processing (NLP), intelligent virtual assistants/smartbots, and intelligent optical character recognition (iOCR). This data is based on a survey recently conducted by Cutter Consortium of how organizations are adopting or planning to adopt IPA.
Strategy Starts with Troubleshooting
Scott Whitmire
As industries have become completely unpredictable, modern strategic planning requires distinct skills to determine competitive environments. This Advisor explores how troubleshooting can help you identify the competitive environment for your industry, how strategy is the design of your solution, and how your enterprise is the implementation of that solution.
Analytics Can Grow on You — In a Good Way
Benjamin Porter
Ben Porter uses several case studies to show how organizations have made progress in amplifying the value of analytics by demonstrating three actions: recognizing how value is created, focusing on delivering that value, and understanding the changes that must be adopted to ensure long-term value. He describes the four fundamental requirements for successful analytics projects (sponsor, tools, team, and project/problem) and closes with the critical assertion that value creation from analytics requires teamwork between IT, business, and analytics professionals.
Why Do Machine Learning Analytics Projects Fail?
Michael Papadopoulos, Philippe Monnot
Michael Papadopoulos and Philippe Monnot take a deep dive into ML projects. They address the “very powerful tendency to anthropomorphize ML and AI, imbuing it with human characteristics.” As we increasingly describe them in human terms, we often fail to make a critical distinction in the way humans and machines interpret the world.
Enhancing Education with AI
Aswani Kumar Cherukuri, Annapurna Jonnalagadda, San Murugesan
In this Advisor, we discuss how AI impacts the teaching and learning experience and the quality of education. We also briefly explore a number of AI technologies that are being applied in education to achieve these advances.
The 4 Characteristics of Robust Analytics
Manjul Gupta, Carlos Parra, Brian Mennecke
The authors look at how to achieve robust analytics through four lenses. They begin by identifying effectiveness as the first hallmark, echoing the previous critical objective around finding an important business decision to be solved in order to deliver relevant value. They describe efficiency as the next critical element. The authors' third criteria for robust analytics is around minimizing risk by monitoring threats and opportunities in both internal and external environments. Finally, they describe ethics as the fourth tenet of robust analytics.
Analytics in the Real World
Frank Contrepois
Frank Contrepois discusses human emotions and our connections to data. He shares how some companies manage to convert data into money and how other organizations can learn from and potentially replicate the approach (or at least the outcome). But this approach comes with some warnings, which he outlines. Contrepois closes by supporting this point: focus on a defined business problem and act by building an analytical model that improves decision-making confidence.
Traditional Organizations & the Analytics Maturity Curve
Avishan Bodjnoud
Avishan Bodjnoud highlights the typical challenges of skill sets, data literacy, data governance, process, resources, and senior leadership buy-in that affect most traditional organizations. She explains why organizations that simply establish a standalone analytics entity and expect immediate results are often disappointed. Bodjnoud closes with an important discussion on the need to understand the reasons for resistance to change and then manage them — critical elements of any analytics project or digital transformation effort.
Analytics Value Now! — Opening Statement
Dave Cherry
There are myriad approaches that can help analytics projects deliver on their promises and potential. The articles in this issue of Cutter Business Technology Journal provide insights into some of these approaches. As you contemplate how to ensure that your organization derives value from your next analytics initiative, it is imperative to develop your own path forward, determining what tactics you feel will work best in your environment.
Analytics Value Now! — Opening Statement
Dave Cherry
There are myriad approaches that can help analytics projects deliver on their promises and potential. The articles in this issue of Cutter Business Technology Journal provide insights into some of these approaches. As you contemplate how to ensure that your organization derives value from your next analytics initiative, it is imperative to develop your own path forward, determining what tactics you feel will work best in your environment.
Driving Across the Software Abyss: EV + AI = Unmanageable Complexity
Robert Charette
OEMs have recognized that their current approaches of outsourcing the requisite software and electronics to suppliers and then integrating them in ICE vehicles is not workable for EVs. What's the solution?
Leadership and the Art of the Stress Not Had
Cheryl Crupi
Leaders are often unaware of the level and cost of stress they impose on their workforce. This Advisor highlights three specific sources of organizational stress: overfocus on form, wishful thinking, and centralized decision making. It offers strategies for tackling each source, allowing you to create a virtuous, self-reinforcing cycle of time for clear thinking.
Navigating the Prospects and Perils of AI — An Introduction
Michael Eiden
The immediate future of AI isn’t about building entirely autonomous systems, but about augmentation; helping experts see the bigger picture and giving them the ability to react to it more quickly. This Cutter Business Technology Journal issue considers the opportunities as well as the unintended consequences of AI technologies.
