The Role of Digital Twins in Enabling True Predictive Maintenance
Sameer Kher
Sameer Kher starts us off with a discussion on the important topic of simulations. Simulations have been used for years in modeling and design. More recently, they have become a core aspect of digital twins, simulating outcomes during design phases and in using real data during operations. Kher describes the phases associated with applying simulation in digital twins as well as use of simulation in areas such as predictive maintenance. He concludes with describing how you build, validate, and deploy a simulated digital twin.
The Role of Digital Twins in Enabling True Predictive Maintenance
Sameer Kher
Sameer Kher starts us off with a discussion on the important topic of simulations. Simulations have been used for years in modeling and design. More recently, they have become a core aspect of digital twins, simulating outcomes during design phases and in using real data during operations. Kher describes the phases associated with applying simulation in digital twins as well as use of simulation in areas such as predictive maintenance. He concludes with describing how you build, validate, and deploy a simulated digital twin.
Data Strategy: From Vision to Roadmap, Part II — Dimensions of Information Superiority
Richard Veryard
In Part II of this Executive Update series on information superiority, we take the concept further and examine the four dimensions of information superiority in greater detail.
Digital Twins — Opening Statement
Ron Zahavi
It takes a village and ecosystem to provide all the capabilities found in digital twins. To highlight this challenge, the articles in this issue of CBTJ bring to life the various aspects of digital twins uses and applicability.
Digital Twins — Opening Statement
Ron Zahavi
It takes a village and ecosystem to provide all the capabilities found in digital twins. To highlight this challenge, the articles in this issue of CBTJ bring to life the various aspects of digital twins uses and applicability.
Biggest Digital Transformation Risk Is Human, Keep Digital & Data Architecture Options Open...
Cutter Consortium
This edition of The Cutter Edge discusses why it's critical for business leaders to understand that success depends more on how they develop people than how they deploy technology; the patterns and techniques that are useful for keeping digital and data architectures open to changes, and more!
Biggest Digital Transformation Risk Is Human, Keep Digital & Data Architecture Options Open...
Cutter Consortium
This edition of The Cutter Edge discusses why it's critical for business leaders to understand that success depends more on how they develop people than how they deploy technology; the patterns and techniques that are useful for keeping digital and data architectures open to changes, and more!
Federated Learning’s Potential for Joint AI Development Efforts
Curt Hall
Federated learning is an emerging distributed machine learning (ML) development method that allows different organizations to collaborate on artificial intelligence (AI) projects while protecting their sensitive data. Federated learning is currently seen as especially applicable in healthcare/medicine and banking/finance; however, I believe it will prove important for many heavily regulated industries seeking to develop AI applications.
Developing High-Performance Agile Coaches
This program developed by Cutter Senior Consultant Jon Ward employs an apprenticeship style of blended learning that includes theory and practice to provide a clear, pragmatic understanding of the art of agile coaching over the course of fourteen weeks. Participants will gain a deep understanding of core agile conventions and benefit from the practical application of observation, analysis of team behavior and performance, and the implementation of a range of interventions based upon agile wisdom.
Ingredients for Enterprise Agility, Part II: Organizing and Planning for Enterprise Agility
Jon Ward
This Advisor outlines how using a target operating model working hypothesis may help C-suite executives understand how adopting Agile can impact them and their organization. The working hypothesis develops incrementally as the activity progresses. The author also suggests how to plan a transformation based upon outcomes, 90-day horizons and themes, and offers an Agile sundial as a means of setting direction and illustrating progress.
A New Look — The Automotive Industry, Post-COVID: A Q&A
Andreas Schlosser, Alan Martinovich, Philipp Seidel
In a recent webinar, Andreas Schlosser, Alan Martinovich, and Philipp Seidel examined the state of the automotive industry and what it might look like after the pandemic. They urged industry players — manufacturers, dealers, distributors, OEMs, and the full supply chain — to make bold decisions right now to be ready for a “new normal.” In this Advisor, we share some of the answers to questions participants asked about the actions carmakers should take now to set themselves up to win in the post-corona era.
A New Look — The Automotive Industry, Post-COVID: A Q&A
Andreas Schlosser, Alan Martinovich, Philipp Seidel
In a recent webinar, Andreas Schlosser, Alan Martinovich, and Philipp Seidel examined the state of the automotive industry and what it might look like after the pandemic. They urged industry players — manufacturers, dealers, distributors, OEMs, and the full supply chain — to make bold decisions right now to be ready for a “new normal.” In this Advisor, we share some of the answers to questions participants asked about the actions carmakers should take now to set themselves up to win in the post-corona era.
5G Will Power the Next Evolutionary Step for the IoT
Agron Lasku, Hariprasad Pichai, Rebecka Axelsson Wadman, Sean McDevitt
The emergence of the IoT has led to a need for different characteristics and technical capabilities in cellular networks, which have continued to develop and will, with the emergence of 5G, address the key needs of the IoT. And with more and more “things” connected, leading to significantly higher connection density, the risk of interference increases. This has been another historical challenge to the IoT that 5G will address. All this means that 5G will enable an entirely new range of applications.
Getting Past Tradition: Expanding the Scope of EA in the Organization
Brian Cameron
While the goals of the traditional view of EA are still very valid today, this is not where the scope of EA should stop. If the EA organization wants to become a strategic partner with the business, the EA value measurement program must demonstrate that the EA team understands the key strategic metrics that the business values and can positively impact these key strategic metrics.
Utilizing AI to Extract Structure from PDFs
Shahane Eksuzyan, Sedrak Vardanyan, Raj Ramesh
In this Executive Update, the authors describe a system using AI technologies to automate data extraction to any one of many structured formats. The system performs minimal manual annotations to capture the semantics of specific sections for any particular document template. The authors highlight the business drivers behind such a system, describe the architecture of the system, show how the system performs compared to human-assisted analysis, and showcase examples of documents processed. In addition, they cover some difficulties around this process and share details about the neural network architecture they use to achieve high accuracy.
Next-Generation Analytics: Is it a Data Lake or a Data Mart?
Vince Kellen
The rise of cloud technologies and continued technical advances in computing architectures have dramatically altered how we design data warehouses, but we continue to see both IT staff and vendors continue to recreate the old data warehouse. As we explore in this Advisor, with the new technologies that are available, instead of having two architectures — one for data lakes and the other for data warehouses — a single “new rules” architecture can handle both.
Data Strategy: From Vision to Roadmap, Part I — Vision
Richard Veryard
In Part I of this three-part Executive Update series, we look at the myriad ways that data can operate in your organization. In Part II, we will take the concept further and examine the four dimensions of information superiority in greater detail. Finally, Part III will show how all this impacts building an effective roadmap toward creating a data-driven business.
Data Strategy: From Vision to Roadmap, Part I — Vision
Richard Veryard
In Part I of this three-part Executive Update series, we look at the myriad ways that data can operate in your organization. In Part II, we will take the concept further and examine the four dimensions of information superiority in greater detail. Finally, Part III will show how all this impacts building an effective roadmap toward creating a data-driven business.
Learning to Lead Collective Creativity, Part II: Leading So That No One Is Following
Daniel Hjorth, Robert Austin, Shannon Hessel
In creative ensembles where leadership isn’t an assigned role or position, a series of actions or behaviors enables collective creativity and can be enacted by every member of the team. In these groups, it’s imperative that every member participates in leadership actions and is prepared to take the lead at any moment.
How to Succeed with LC/NC Solutions
Greg Smith, Michael Papadopoulos, Joshua Sanz, Michael Grech, Heather Norris
To ensure success when implementing low-code/no-code solutions, companies should consider the five important priorities described in this Advisor.
How to Succeed with LC/NC Solutions
Greg Smith, Michael Papadopoulos, Joshua Sanz, Michael Grech, Heather Norris
To ensure success when implementing low-code/no-code solutions, companies should consider the five important priorities described in this Advisor.
Low-Code/No-Code-enabled Citizen Developers: Catalysts to Innovation
Greg Smith, Michael Papadopoulos
In today’s highly competitive environment, it can be challenging to fulfill the development and operational demands needed to keep your businesses running while also continuing to expand and enhance your digital capabilities. This is where “citizen developers” can help — and where “low-code/no-code” (NC/LC) solutions shine.
Low-Code/No-Code-enabled Citizen Developers: Catalysts to Innovation
Greg Smith, Michael Papadopoulos
In today’s highly competitive environment, it can be challenging to fulfill the development and operational demands needed to keep your businesses running while also continuing to expand and enhance your digital capabilities. This is where “citizen developers” can help — and where “low-code/no-code” (NC/LC) solutions shine.
Assessing the Value of EA with Metrics
Brian Cameron
This Advisor explores the critical need to assess or evaluate the value of EA through the use of metrics or measures to demonstrate the specific strategic business value that EA brings to a particular organization.
How Business Architecture Can Help Achieve UN Sustainable Development Goals: A Q&A
Whynde Kuehn
In a recent webinar, Cutter Consortium Senior Consultant Whynde Kuehn discussed how organizations can leverage business architecture to support the UN’s 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). This Advisor shares the Q&A session that followed.
