The Secret Sauce of Technological Influence on Data Architecture Management
Sagar Gole, Vidyasagar Uddagiri
Data architects need to strike the right balance between addressing data stakeholder pain points and gathering information to build and enhance the data architecture. The triad of people, process, and systems (technology) transforming cohesively are the ingredients for the secret sauce that can provide a practical way of managing the enterprise data architecture. In this Advisor, we examine these influences on data architecture.
People Are Key to Putting the Data in Context
Adrian Jones
In this Advisor, Adrian Jones stresses the importance of context-setting information by pointing out the increased vulnerability to which we are exposing ourselves. We produce and use more and more data. In the backs of our minds, we know that data governance is of growing importance, but we don’t act in the right way on this knowledge.
Risk-Driven Operational Planning
Craig Wylie, Tom Teixeira, Michael Eiden
Now is the time for risk managers to focus on real-time analytics and proactive loss prevention, rather than administering risk systems related to operational processes. Here, Craig Wylie looks at how to use the AI/ML technology in practice; the capabilities that need to be in place; best practices for communicating risk and risk mitigation strategies; how to avoid “crying wolf”; rebalancing globalism and outsourcing.
Digital Shift: Identifying the Clear and Present Needs
Paul Clermont
The most critical element of a digital shift is the identification of a clear need or opportunity that digital technology can address. Successful enterprises continually examine their marketplaces along with how those marketplaces are changing. They also look at both their processes — and how to carry them out better, faster, and cheaper — and new technologies that could open up hitherto infeasible opportunities.
Digital Shift: Identifying the Clear and Present Needs
Paul Clermont
The most critical element of a digital shift is the identification of a clear need or opportunity that digital technology can address. Successful enterprises continually examine their marketplaces along with how those marketplaces are changing. They also look at both their processes — and how to carry them out better, faster, and cheaper — and new technologies that could open up hitherto infeasible opportunities.
Three Practices to Improve Employee Engagement
Jorge Silva
Collaboration is a key factor in solving many complex problems, including the one we currently face. In fact, collaboration is a new paradigm that is increasingly finding its way into many traditional practices, including the modern corporation, where it has been introduced via horizontal organizations. Horizontal organizations are based on collaboration and trust as their default strategy. This kind of organization increases employee satisfaction and builds higher profits. In this Advisor, we examine how practices such as an open-book management policy (OBM), consent decision making, and a bold profit-sharing policy lead to greater profit and, ultimately, real customer satisfaction.
Tackling the AI Investment Logjam
William Jolitz, Lynne Greer Jolitz
The time-honored approach to quantifying markets is to work outward from a specific technology or tool to a targeted customer who will potentially use the technology in myriad ways. These potential markets with applicable benefit from the technology are then tabulated into initial total addressable markets (TAMs). In turn, the TAMs help justify strategic investment in an organization or the investment round in a startup.
Tackling the AI Investment Logjam
William Jolitz, Lynne Greer Jolitz
The time-honored approach to quantifying markets is to work outward from a specific technology or tool to a targeted customer who will potentially use the technology in myriad ways. These potential markets with applicable benefit from the technology are then tabulated into initial total addressable markets (TAMs). In turn, the TAMs help justify strategic investment in an organization or the investment round in a startup.
Core Capabilities: Shifting to a Business Value Perspective
Brian Cameron
The job of the IT strategy isn’t to align to the business strategy. It’s to give the business people who create it as many options to change tack as possible. It’s a provider of IT capability in support of strategic business capabilities. Supporting, enabling, and aligning with core business capabilities equals competitive advantage when the business strategy is a good one.
The Cutter Edge: Misunderstanding the COBOL crisis, DevSecOps red flags, automotive industry tips ...
Cutter Consortium
This edition of The Cutter Edge highlights a long-overdue infrastructure issue brought to light by COVID-19, the missteps taken with DevSecOps efforts, tips for the automotive industry, and more.
A “Covidian” Architecture: Designed for Uncertainty
Balaji Prasad
We are now well into the depths of dealing with the current situation. In assessing performance in the face of uncertainty, have you identified and inventoried the capabilities, including ones that you barely knew existed within the depths of your enterprise? Can you use this learning to build a more Covidian architecture that will withstand future assaults that could be worse than the one we have been going through?
Setting the Course for Automotive Recovery After COVID-19
Alan Martinovich, Andreas Schlosser, Florent Nanse, Ninghua Song, Philipp Seidel, Bill Reeves
Economic lockdowns in the COVID-19 crisis have quickly and severely compromised the automotive supply chain and dealerships worldwide in unprecedented ways. The recession after the crisis will cut global car demand by multi-digit percentages in 2020, followed by a slow recovery that will lag GDP rebound by one or two years. By the time car sales reach pre-crisis levels again in two to three years, powertrain electrification and digitalization will have made additional advances, just as buyers are returning to the market. This confluence creates opportunities in the automotive crisis recovery for those in the industry who set themselves on the right course now.
Back to Business: Social Distancing and Contact Tracing in the Workplace
Curt Hall
Vendors are now offering IT solutions designed specifically to help businesses enforce social distancing practices and support automated contact tracing in the workplace.
Back to Business: Social Distancing and Contact Tracing in the Workplace
Curt Hall
Vendors are now offering IT solutions designed specifically to help businesses enforce social distancing practices and support automated contact tracing in the workplace.
The Flywheel: Your Digital Shift Foundation
Tim Christoph, Viktor Kanzler, Philipp Mudersbach, Volker Pfirsching, Bianca Rieger
Today’s corporate world requires companies to look for a clear purpose for their business ventures, beyond solely maximizing profits. This purpose — or the why — is essential for future success in an ever-changing, increasingly digital business environment. As this Executive Update highlights, today’s companies must not only convince their customers of their offerings, but they also must convey opportunities to their investors and company strategy to their employees through the flywheel concept.
The Flywheel: Your Digital Shift Foundation
Tim Christoph, Viktor Kanzler, Philipp Mudersbach, Volker Pfirsching, Bianca Rieger
Today’s corporate world requires companies to look for a clear purpose for their business ventures, beyond solely maximizing profits. This purpose — or the why — is essential for future success in an ever-changing, increasingly digital business environment. As this Executive Update highlights, today’s companies must not only convince their customers of their offerings, but they also must convey opportunities to their investors and company strategy to their employees through the flywheel concept.
AI & ML Technology for Enabling Risk-Based Decision Making
Michael Eiden, Tom Teixeira, Craig Wylie
The COVID-19 outbreak is impacting all businesses globally. It’s impacting staff, contractors, and staffing levels; it’s impacting the supply chain; and it’s impacting processes. Despite companies having crisis management and business continuity plans, current decision-making tools and dashboards are not adequate for dealing with COVID-19-related decision-making given the geographic scale of the disruption. Established risk management methodologies and approaches tend to be static in nature and lead to models that are backward-looking.
AI & ML Technology for Enabling Risk-Based Decision Making
Michael Eiden, Tom Teixeira, Craig Wylie
The COVID-19 outbreak is impacting all businesses globally. It’s impacting staff, contractors, and staffing levels; it’s impacting the supply chain; and it’s impacting processes. Despite companies having crisis management and business continuity plans, current decision-making tools and dashboards are not adequate for dealing with COVID-19-related decision-making given the geographic scale of the disruption. Established risk management methodologies and approaches tend to be static in nature and lead to models that are backward-looking.
Business Architecture: Key Enabler for Strategy Execution Redux
Whynde Kuehn
This Executive Update explores opportunities for strategy execution, the role of business architecture and the resulting benefits, collaboration with other teams, and some steps we can take to move into action.
Business Architecture: Key Enabler for Strategy Execution Redux
Whynde Kuehn
This Executive Update explores opportunities for strategy execution, the role of business architecture and the resulting benefits, collaboration with other teams, and some steps we can take to move into action.
Preparing for the Post-Corona Era: Tips for the Automotive Industry
Andreas Schlosser, Alan Martinovich, Philipp Seidel
The “new normal” for the automotive industry will look very different from that of the last decade. Players — manufacturers, dealers, distributors, OEMs, and the full supply chain — will need to make bold decisions right now to be ready. In this webinar, we divulge the actions carmakers should take now to set themselves up for the new normal and win in the post-corona era.
Disrupting Agile: Is Agile Ready? — An Introduction
Hillel Glazer
The introduction of Agile practices changed how product development was organized, managed, and executed with the objectives of enhancing customer satisfaction, improving customer/market responsiveness and developer morale, and cutting out impediments to delivery. Indeed, “Agile” has been clearly popularized in much of the product development world. But strong and steady signals are emerging that those objectives are not being met. What happened?
Digital Architecture as an Enabler of Digital Transformation
Kaine Ugwu
Unfortunately, most digital transformation initiatives fail not because they lack capabilities or intelligent, talented people but because they lack precise objectives, digital leadership, and an innovative mindset. Goals — such as what the target business outcomes are — must be clearly defined because a digital transformation journey on its own is already a very complicated endeavor. Digital architecture is what simplifies the journey and makes sense of it. It is vital to begin with a clear objective in order to create the right architecture.
Seeking Value Creation? Find Out What Humans Need
Athula Ginige, Marie Fernando
With the dawn of the 21st century, we have begun to observe a more inclusive digital shift in value creation, with the transformation of business as well as societal systems due to an emerging phenomenon: a new computing paradigm that has introduced myriad Web and mobile-based applications aiming to fulfill society’s primary and secondary human needs. Nonetheless, many attempts to develop social computing applications to facilitate value creation have failed. We have created a human needs fulfillment (HNF) model that enables an optimum fulfillment of human needs, resulting in value creation.
Seeking Value Creation? Find Out What Humans Need
Athula Ginige, Marie Fernando
With the dawn of the 21st century, we have begun to observe a more inclusive digital shift in value creation, with the transformation of business as well as societal systems due to an emerging phenomenon: a new computing paradigm that has introduced myriad Web and mobile-based applications aiming to fulfill society’s primary and secondary human needs. Nonetheless, many attempts to develop social computing applications to facilitate value creation have failed. We have created a human needs fulfillment (HNF) model that enables an optimum fulfillment of human needs, resulting in value creation.
