Digital Twin Technology for Smart Sustainable Cities
Jacqueline Corbett, Adnène Hajji, Sehl Mellouli
Many cities are now pursuing smart sustainable city strategies with the aim of enhancing their performance; optimizing their infrastructures, processes, and services; and improving residents’ quality of life. Recognizing the potential of digital twins, smart sustainable cities are experimenting with these technology solutions. This Advisor highlights a few ways smart sustainable cities can leverage digital twin technology.
Study Shines Light on Business Architect Strengths
Whynde Kuehn
In order to bring a bit of science into the mix to help us understand why we view business architects as gifted in certain areas, along with why we see common challenges, I initiated the global “Business Architect Strengths Study,” a first-of-its-kind. The study was a primary research effort conducted by me and Pete Cafarchio, a certified coach by the International Coaching Federation as well as a Gallup Certified Strengths Champion.
Study Shines Light on Business Architect Strengths
Whynde Kuehn
In order to bring a bit of science into the mix to help us understand why we view business architects as gifted in certain areas, along with why we see common challenges, I initiated the global “Business Architect Strengths Study,” a first-of-its-kind. The study was a primary research effort conducted by me and Pete Cafarchio, a certified coach by the International Coaching Federation as well as a Gallup Certified Strengths Champion.
The Future of Electric Vehicle Charging
Thomas Knoblinger, Alexander Krug
In this on-demand webinar you will discover the ways that some players have already started to integrate along the value chain, the ways that others have begun to diversify into adjacent business models to expand their scale, reach and service offerings, and glean ideas for unique service offerings and innovative uses of EV technology.
Agile Lineout: How an Alternative to Scrum Can Create Enterprise Agility
Jon Ward
Scrum embodies Agile ways of working and new organizational constructs, but does it consistently deliver the Agile promise of improved performance? Agile Lineout — another metaphor from rugby — is a new approach that uses progressive steps to increase predictability, quality, and delivery efficiency.
Digital Twins in Automotive: Balancing the Challenges and Benefits
Madison White
Although the concept of a digital twin in automotive is not new, the mass deployment of embedded connectivity and the ability to remotely extract critical vehicle data is. As vehicle components and systems evolve from concept and design to manufacture and operation, so does the digital twin.
Low-Code/No-Code: Empowering Citizen Developers & Unleashing Innovation — An Introduction
Michael Papadopoulos
This Advisor explores the challenges of LC/NC and the potential benefits for businesses, from simply reducing the IT backlog to serving as a POC for digital transformation.
Low-Code/No-Code: Empowering Citizen Developers & Unleashing Innovation — An Introduction
Michael Papadopoulos
This Advisor explores the challenges of LC/NC and the potential benefits for businesses, from simply reducing the IT backlog to serving as a POC for digital transformation.
Preparing for the Circular Economy: A Q&A
Cutter Consortium
In a recent webinar, Cutter Consortium Senior Consultant Mike Rosen explored the circular economy concept, its broad impact on business and operating models, and the role of architects in facilitating the shift to a circular economy. This Advisor shares the Q&A session that followed. Perhaps Mike’s advice will spark some new ideas on how your organization can participate in the circular economy.
With Nuance Acquisition, Microsoft Goes All Out for Speech Solutions
Curt Hall
Microsoft buying Nuance Communications — a leader in natural language processing (NLP) and speech-powered solutions — for US $19.7 billion is the most important artificial intelligence (AI)–related acquisition to take place so far this year.
A Risk Mismanagement Lesson — the Texas Cold Snap; how Micro-fulfillment Could be Tech's Next Big Bet, and more!
Cutter Consortium
This edition of The Cutter Edge discusses the risk management lessons learned from the Texas snowstorm, how micro-fulfillment could be the next big bet that delivers wins for consumer businesses and commercial property owners, and more!
A Risk Mismanagement Lesson — the Texas Cold Snap; how Micro-fulfillment Could be Tech's Next Big Bet, and more!
Cutter Consortium
This edition of The Cutter Edge discusses the risk management lessons learned from the Texas snowstorm, how micro-fulfillment could be the next big bet that delivers wins for consumer businesses and commercial property owners, and more!
An Architectural Approach to the Circular Economy and Sustainability
Mike Rosen, Tamar Krichevsky, Harsh Sharma
The hype (and chaos) surrounding the concepts of sustainability and the circular economy cannot be denied. In this Executive Update, we look at how an architectural approach can facilitate the adoption of sustainability throughout an enterprise.
Agile Lineout — A Contextual Alternative to Scrum
Jon Ward
Learn about an agile approach tailored for IT and non-IT activities. Jon Ward’s Agile Lineout uses behavioral theory, lean principles and agile wisdom to help teams create high-value solutions quickly.
Putting Digital Twins Within Reach: A Straightforward Solution
Sameer Kher
Digital twins have the power to vastly increase the reliability and cost-effectiveness of products, creating an enormous economic impact. However, most businesses lack the dedicated resources to create a simulated product model, verify the model, deploy the model, and analyze the collected information. This article presents a solution that easily integrates across business functions and places digital twins within reach of many companies currently overwhelmed by the challenge.
Master Classes in Risk Mismanagement, Part II — The US COVID Vaccination Rollout
Robert Charette
In this Advisor, we turn our attention to the risk mismanagement of the US’s COVID-19 pandemic vaccination preparations.
5 Causes of Failure in Enterprise Portfolio Management
Brian Seitz
Portfolio management in the enterprise is very similar to portfolio management in the financial community — with similar disappointments. In this Advisor, we explore five elements of failure that contribute to these disappointments.
Preparing for the Circular Economy: Changes in Business and Operating Models
Mike Rosen
In this on-demand webinar, Mike Rosen explores the basic concepts of the circular economy and its broad impact on business and operating models — including sourcing, supply chain, materials, design, manufacturing, operations, customer relationships, partnerships, networks, and more.
Maximizing Business Architects and the Science of Strengths
Whynde Kuehn
This Executive Update provides a small subset of key research findings from the global “Business Architect Strengths Study” and, most important, what these findings mean for most effectively leveraging the unique abilities of business architecture within our organizations.
Building EA Maturity: Commonsense Suggestions
Roger Evernden
There are many good practices in bridging the maturity gap that are common to all leading EA practices: Determining the type of architectural change required, deciding the required level of EA maturity, defining the right set of areas for change, and creating well-defined maturity descriptions all help make overall improvements in EA maturity. This Advisor provides suggestions to help you build EA maturity that are considered common sense, but are frequently overlooked.
Healthcare Digital Twins: What They Are and How We Can Use Them
Chloé Audigier, Dileep Mangsuli
As the technology develops, digital twins could give rise to a new era of predictive medicine by giving clinicians a way to simulate the outcomes of possible interventions and create detailed plans for complex surgeries. This Advisor explores the potential of digital twin technology in the healthcare industry.
Low-Code/No-Code: Empowering Citizen Developers & Unleashing Innovation — Opening Statement
Michael Papadopoulos
In this issue, we closely examine the benefits and challenges associated with LC/NC and citizen development. Opinions vary somewhat, but the authors agree that as digital transformation becomes a requisite to compete, the focus must be less on how software development approaches clash and more on how they could (and should) coexist.
Low-Code/No-Code: Empowering Citizen Developers & Unleashing Innovation — Opening Statement
Michael Papadopoulos
In this issue, we closely examine the benefits and challenges associated with LC/NC and citizen development. Opinions vary somewhat, but the authors agree that as digital transformation becomes a requisite to compete, the focus must be less on how software development approaches clash and more on how they could (and should) coexist.
Citizen Development Delivers Power to the People
Dave Garrett, Ian Duncan
Dave Garrett and Ian Duncan offer a robust framework from PMI regarding citizen development (CD), which aims to help companies build business apps, build capability, support CD, and scale across the organization. The authors also review the benefits of CD, with separate categories for organizations, IT, and individuals. Finally, they provide three case studies showing a problem, a solution, and an outcome from real-world CD projects.
Citizen Development Delivers Power to the People
Dave Garrett, Ian Duncan
Dave Garrett and Ian Duncan offer a robust framework from PMI regarding citizen development (CD), which aims to help companies build business apps, build capability, support CD, and scale across the organization. The authors also review the benefits of CD, with separate categories for organizations, IT, and individuals. Finally, they provide three case studies showing a problem, a solution, and an outcome from real-world CD projects.
