Realizing IoT Potential with 5G
Agron Lasku, Hariprasad Pichai, Rebecka Axelsson Wadman, Sean McDevitt
Although more devices are connected, the Internet of Things (IoT) is still far from living up to its full promise in many industries. But this is set to change — as 5G enables many of the technical requirements that have previously been lacking. Now is the time for companies to set their IoT strategies, and we believe investing in private networks, in particular, is important for companies to consider as 5G becomes a reality.
Create Market Insight with Textual Analytics
Joseph Byrum
No human could possibly read everything, but a machine can. The best you can do with old-fashioned methods is to hire experts to sample a subset of the relevant data and produce written market insight reports. While these studies can be extremely useful, the resulting analysis is constrained by the amount of data sampled. Many companies already use forms of automation to sort through the data with machines, but, in the end, humans still have to read the data and decide what it means.
Top Intriguing Business Agility & Software Engineering Excellence Articles for 2020
Karen Coburn
As has been our tradition for the last several years, we’ve compiled the five most intriguing articles published by the Business Agility & Software Engineering Excellence practice for today’s Advisor. How did we come up with this list? We chose the articles that garnered the most feedback from Cutter Members. Your questions and comments not only make it possible to create lists like this, they help focus Cutter’s Senior Consultants’ research on the areas that are most important to organizations like yours. So please keep your feedback coming.
Top Intriguing Business Technology & Digital Transformation Strategies Articles for 2020
Karen Coburn
As has been our tradition for the last several years, we’ve compiled the five most intriguing articles published by Business Technology & Digital Transformation Strategies this year for today’s Advisor. How did we come up with this list? We chose the articles that garnered the most feedback from Cutter Members. Your questions and comments not only make it possible to create lists like this, they help focus Cutter’s Senior Consultants’ research on the areas that are most important to organizations like yours. So please keep your feedback coming.
Top Intriguing Cutter Business Technology Journal Articles for 2020
Karen Coburn
This Advisor takes a look at the most intriguing articles of 2020 from the Cutter Business Technology Journal.
Top Intriguing Business & Enterprise Architecture Articles for 2020
Karen Coburn
As has been our tradition for the last several years, we’ve compiled the five most intriguing articles published by the Business & Enterprise Architecture practice for today’s Advisor. How did we come up with this list? We chose the articles that garnered the most feedback from Cutter Members. Your questions and comments not only make it possible to create lists like this, they help focus Cutter’s Senior Consultants’ research on the areas that are most important to organizations like yours. So please keep your feedback coming.
Top Intriguing Data Analytics & Digital Technologies Articles for 2020
Karen Coburn
As has been our tradition for the last several years, we’ve compiled the five most intriguing articles published by the Data Analytics & Digital Technologies practice this year for today’s Advisor. How did we come up with this list? We chose the articles that garnered the most feedback from Cutter Members and clients and those that created controversy among Cutter Senior Consultants and Fellows.
Configuring Your EA Practice for Agility
Svyatoslav Kotusev
The definition of “Agile architecture” is neither clear nor concrete. Instigated by hype, EA managers may rush to implement fashionable Agile approaches to the detriment of their organizations. Instead, they should strike a balance between up-front planning and agility — because no firms can plan their future in every detail, and not one single company can avoid planning altogether to stay perfectly Agile. As we explore in this Executive Update, EA managers should determine the “golden mean” between total planning and full agility that best meets the specific needs of their organizations.
Demystifying Digital Transformation: Start with the Digital Mindsets of Leaders
Sunny Ray, Joab Meyer, Karl Johnson
The authors share part of a research project that seeks to “demystify digital transformation” through findings from interviews with senior leaders at seven firms undergoing digital transformation in a variety of industries. One of their major initial findings is the degree to which senior leaders’ digital mindsets determine the success or failure of these initiatives. The authors highlight the importance of an enterprise-wide view, explaining why a project-by-project approach rarely produces true or lasting digital transformation.
Demystifying Digital Transformation: Start with the Digital Mindsets of Leaders
Sunny Ray, Joab Meyer, Karl Johnson
The authors share part of a research project that seeks to “demystify digital transformation” through findings from interviews with senior leaders at seven firms undergoing digital transformation in a variety of industries. One of their major initial findings is the degree to which senior leaders’ digital mindsets determine the success or failure of these initiatives. The authors highlight the importance of an enterprise-wide view, explaining why a project-by-project approach rarely produces true or lasting digital transformation.
Take It from NIST: Data & Digital Architecture Requires Application Security
Timothy Chiu
Timothy Chiu discusses how data and digital architectures require improved application security and how the new security framework from the US National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) endorses this view. As more and more organizations move rapidly to the cloud, he argues, applications and their associated data are increasingly at risk. With supporting data from multiple sources, Chiu frames the risks through examples of data breaches across multiple industries and geographies. Fortunately, he says, NIST is on the case.
Building a Digital Ecosystem Platform from the Bottom Up
Thomas Gossler
Thomas Gossler writes about how a digital ecosystem platform demands a solid architecture for data and infrastructure on top of which a network of stakeholders can engage in valuable interactions with each other. The journey from a pipeline business model to an ecosystem platform is no small feat, and the author shares the approach he and his colleagues at Siemens Healthineers took and the lessons learned in their seven-year digital transformation
Building a Digital Ecosystem Platform from the Bottom Up
Thomas Gossler
Thomas Gossler writes about how a digital ecosystem platform demands a solid architecture for data and infrastructure on top of which a network of stakeholders can engage in valuable interactions with each other. The journey from a pipeline business model to an ecosystem platform is no small feat, and the author shares the approach he and his colleagues at Siemens Healthineers took and the lessons learned in their seven-year digital transformation
Designing Emerging, Adaptive Digital & Data Architectures
Olivier Pilot, Michael Papadopoulos, Michael Eiden
The authors take a two-part approach to discussing the design of adaptive digital and data architectures. First, they propose a way to design solutions that actively identify and address key uncertainties and concerns so that the right kinds of EA artifacts will emerge to answer key questions about user desirability, technical feasibility, and financial viability for the right people. Second, they share patterns and techniques that can be used to design and build digital and data architectures with a high level of flexibility and adaptability that can better support the changes in priorities that successful digital transformation efforts need to be able to steer.
The Missing Step in Digital Transformations: Defragmenting Your Value Streams
Eric Willeke
Any digital transformation requires significant changes across many dimensions, ranging from operating models to funding models to platform architecture, among others. In this article, Eric Willeke argues that keeping these changes aligned can be one of the hardest elements of digital transformation, especially when organizations try to sidestep the challenge of evolving their current technology organization to the required level of capability by creating a new, “digital” organization instead. Such attempts fail to address three problem areas that can trip up any digital transformation effort: fragmented value streams, poor decision governance, and inadequate management of the business capability portfolio.
The Missing Step in Digital Transformations: Defragmenting Your Value Streams
Eric Willeke
Any digital transformation requires significant changes across many dimensions, ranging from operating models to funding models to platform architecture, among others. In this article, Eric Willeke argues that keeping these changes aligned can be one of the hardest elements of digital transformation, especially when organizations try to sidestep the challenge of evolving their current technology organization to the required level of capability by creating a new, “digital” organization instead. Such attempts fail to address three problem areas that can trip up any digital transformation effort: fragmented value streams, poor decision governance, and inadequate management of the business capability portfolio.
Data & Digital Architecture — Opening Statement
Gustav Toppenberg
In this issue of Cutter Business Technology Journal, we explore how enabling successful digital transformations through data and digital architectures can facilitate the enablement of the value streams and customer journeys companies build to stay in touch with changing client expectations and user experiences, all while building out the organization’s digital backbone.
IPA in the Enterprise, Part II: Strategy Plans & Dedicated IPA Groups
Curt Hall
Here in Part II of this Executive Update series, we examine findings pertaining to surveyed organizations’ plans for adopting IPA into the enterprise, the establishment of dedicated enterprise IPA groups, the groups that are taking the lead on IPA, and the reasons such groups oversee enterprise IPA initiatives.
IPA in the Enterprise, Part II: Strategy Plans & Dedicated IPA Groups
Curt Hall
Here in Part II of this Executive Update series, we examine findings pertaining to surveyed organizations’ plans for adopting IPA into the enterprise, the establishment of dedicated enterprise IPA groups, the groups that are taking the lead on IPA, and the reasons such groups oversee enterprise IPA initiatives.
Implementing EA in the Scaled Agile Framework
Avinash Malik
SAFe has emerged to provide the organizational context and hooks needed to support operating Agile at the level of an entire IT organization. Unfortunately, architecture has been left out of the conversation, leaving IT departments struggling to retain the benefits of architecture in Agile. But perhaps it is time to answer the question: SAFe is fine, but what about enterprise architecture? This Executive Update shows how to innovate on enterprise architecture, bringing it into the Agile model, using a technique called “wave alignment.”
IT Development as a Production Line? A Q&A
Jon Ward
In a recent webinar, Cutter Consortium Senior Consultant Jon Ward explained how shifting to IT development production lines, managed in the same way as car manufacturers manage their vehicle production processes, can improve delivery in an organization. In this Advisor, we share some of the answers to questions participants asked about how the concept of an IT development production line enables organizational learning and greater delivery efficiency.
What’s the Holdup? Digitization in the Financial Services Industry
Bhavik Pathak
The information-dominant financial services (FS) industry has witnessed fractional, fragmented, and transactional digitization compared to entertainment, transportation, travel, lodging, and retail. The FS industry is heavily regulated, consolidated, and has already-built digital capabilities; while the fintech pure plays have shown efficiency, many are built on the same business models as the traditional FS businesses. Thus, a genuinely disruptive model challenging the prominent incumbents of the FS industry has not yet emerged.
Measuring Culture Change for Successful DevSecOps Implementation
Kristin Curran, David Lipton, Steven Woodward
How does one measure culture? How can measures and metrics be used to influence positive culture change? Cultural measurement needs to focus on evaluating outcomes and processes that reflect behavior change. Two major types of measures that provide valuable perspectives are business outcome and enabling metrics, and we can apply both measurement types to culture change.
How Would an Industry Reference Model Help Me?
Serge Thorn
My previous Advisors referred to the use of business capability modeling and heat maps to better focus on business areas that require attention for an IT rationalization. In this Advisor, I expand on the use of reference models, what they are, and why to consider them.
Underdogs to “Wonderdogs”: Technology Trends for 2021 & Beyond
Steve Andriole
Each year, research organizations publish lists of the top technologies to watch in the new year. Many of these trendy “celebrity” technologies appear on every list we see. But what about the ones that don’t always make the lists but are important to our personal and professional lives? In this Executive Update, we present a list of seven underdogs — technologies to watch closely. Look out — they just might become “wonderdogs” in 2021 and beyond.
