Helen Pukszta brings us up to speed on the trends shaping drone usage. She foresees more enactment of regulations and new opportunities for business users of drones as well as for drone technology providers. According to Pukszta, “Regulatory changes, new drone technology, and continuing business adoption will make 2020 an exciting year for all drone users, but many sweeping changes, opportunities, and automation benefits of drones are still ahead of us.” How might your organization benefit from drones?

Helen Pukszta brings us up to speed on the trends shaping drone usage. She foresees more enactment of regulations and new opportunities for business users of drones as well as for drone technology providers. According to Pukszta, “Regulatory changes, new drone technology, and continuing business adoption will make 2020 an exciting year for all drone users, but many sweeping changes, opportunities, and automation benefits of drones are still ahead of us.” How might your organization benefit from drones?

Barry M. O’Reilly questions the validity of Agile practices. According to him, “The Agile movement’s focus on process as the solution to uncertainty has allowed technical quality to fall by the wayside, bringing even more doubt as to the ability of Agile to actually deliver.” O’Reilly contends that “only the people working directly with a problem can decide on tools and process in the evolving picture of their project, and their individual talents — not adherence to or avoidance of certain ideas — guide whether they achieve success or not.” What is your opinion on Agile versus talent, or is it Agile and talent?

Agile budgeting in the value streams is about products, rather than projects, forming the value stream portfolio. A product can already exist and generate value or can be an innovative idea that may turn into a component of the value stream portfolio.

The combination of a blockchain data structure and a set of consensus rules allows something magical to happen: stateless, bankless, digital money (aka cryptocurrency). More precisely, what is loosely described as a cryptocurrency is a fungible “token” that is “native” to a blockchain. The major native tokens can be exchanged for the government-backed fiat currencies we are more used to, but smart contracts can create and maintain special-purpose tokens.

In the webinar, “Envisioning the Organization of the Future: The Cognitive Enterprise,” Cutter Consortium Fellow William Ulrich described the formalisms that underpin the cognitive enterprise vision, the benefits to be accrued under that vision, and the steps your organization can take to begin its journey toward a cognitive enterprise vision while achieving incremental value at each step along the way. This Advisor shares with you some of the questions Bill fielded at the end of the webinar and his responses.  

This issue of The Cutter Edge discusses the use of an architectural strategy for digital business success, why complementary paths to legacy transformation offer an easy way to acquire new digital capabilities and intellectual capital, and the three roadblocks standing in the way of digital transformation. 

This issue of The Cutter Edge discusses the use of an architectural strategy for digital business success, why complementary paths to legacy transformation offer an easy way to acquire new digital capabilities and intellectual capital, and the three roadblocks standing in the way of digital transformation. 

This Executive Update series examines the extent that organizations are using or planning to use CX practices and technologies, the status of implementing CX management, the establishment of dedicated enterprise CX groups, and the reason such groups oversee CX initiatives. Here in Part VIII, we examine survey findings about the use cases and domains organizations see as most viable for applying CX.

This Executive Update series examines the extent that organizations are using or planning to use CX practices and technologies, the status of implementing CX management, the establishment of dedicated enterprise CX groups, and the reason such groups oversee CX initiatives. Here in Part VIII, we examine survey findings about the use cases and domains organizations see as most viable for applying CX.

Transformer-based natural language processing (NLP) models have serious implications for the entire field of NLP — from speech recognition systems to natural language generation (NLG), natural language understanding (NLU), machine translation, and text analysis applications. Consequently, tools for developing transformer-based models have become popular among researchers and developers implementing NLP applications.

In just 20 minutes, Mike Rosen will give you insight into how to break through the biggest barriers to digital business.

In just 20 minutes, Mike Rosen will give you insight into how to break through the biggest barriers to digital business.

Curt Hall predicts an increase in enterprise adoption of AI and, echoing Andriole’s sentiments, emphasizes “calls for new regulations to help guide and ensure the fair use of the technology.” He also anticipates a demand for greater transparency, fairness, and “explainability” in AI applications and products from developers and end-user organizations.

Curt Hall predicts an increase in enterprise adoption of AI and, echoing Andriole’s sentiments, emphasizes “calls for new regulations to help guide and ensure the fair use of the technology.” He also anticipates a demand for greater transparency, fairness, and “explainability” in AI applications and products from developers and end-user organizations.

Autonomous systems are on the rise and, according to Cutter Consortium Senior Consultant San Murugesan, will “transform many different sectors in unimaginable ways.” He describes how technologies such as IoT, drones, robotics, ML, AI, and nano, among others, will extend the capabilities of autonomous systems. Current applications of autonomous systems technol­ogy draw attention to the adoption challenges.

Autonomous systems are on the rise and, according to Cutter Consortium Senior Consultant San Murugesan, will “transform many different sectors in unimaginable ways.” He describes how technologies such as IoT, drones, robotics, ML, AI, and nano, among others, will extend the capabilities of autonomous systems. Current applications of autonomous systems technol­ogy draw attention to the adoption challenges.

Claude Baudoin addresses the issue of trust, or mistrust, in the information we rely on to stay informed or to make decisions. He writes, “This article is not a definitive proposal to achieve the elusive goal of knowing what we can trust, but rather a set of per­spectives and considerations to justify the urgency of addressing this issue.” Some reasons for our untrusting mindsets include “deep fakes,” voting sys­tems breaches, bias in decision algorithms, unknown sources of email, insufficiently secured IoT systems, and robocalls.

Claude Baudoin addresses the issue of trust, or mistrust, in the information we rely on to stay informed or to make decisions. He writes, “This article is not a definitive proposal to achieve the elusive goal of knowing what we can trust, but rather a set of per­spectives and considerations to justify the urgency of addressing this issue.” Some reasons for our untrusting mindsets include “deep fakes,” voting sys­tems breaches, bias in decision algorithms, unknown sources of email, insufficiently secured IoT systems, and robocalls.

To increase the chance for blockchain/distributed ledger technology (DLT) to gain traction and for improved market awareness and adoption of the technology, what should the reference model of the regulatory sandbox dedi­cated for blockchain/DLT technology look like?

To create an organization that can effectively respond to heightened customer centricity and product customization, you need effective and coordinated product development teams. To respond to customer needs quickly, teams need to be autonomous, empowered, self-organizing, and cross-functional. They must take high-level direction from management and then, through intense collaboration, complete work more quickly than their predecessors. In this Advisor, we share our thoughts on putting up guardrails for your teams.

Cybersecurity urgently needs attention from businesses and government, according to Cutter Consortium Senior Consultant Paul Clermont. He highlights how several colliding trends — complexity, AI, and inter-connectedness — are compounding long-standing risks. Clermont discusses the tactics necessary to address them but cautions that “compounding the difficulty of these tasks is the need to be able to execute algorithms and procedures in nanoseconds — a tall order that should inspire a bit of conservatism about how much functionality and connectivity we might want versus what we truly need.”

Cybersecurity urgently needs attention from businesses and government, according to Cutter Consortium Senior Consultant Paul Clermont. He highlights how several colliding trends — complexity, AI, and inter-connectedness — are compounding long-standing risks. Clermont discusses the tactics necessary to address them but cautions that “compounding the difficulty of these tasks is the need to be able to execute algorithms and procedures in nanoseconds — a tall order that should inspire a bit of conservatism about how much functionality and connectivity we might want versus what we truly need.”

According to Cutter Consortium Senior Consultant Whynde Kuehn, “Amid a backdrop of digital trans­formation and a continually shifting landscape of change, business architecture is gaining momentum and relevance.” In her article, she discusses the areas in which business architecture will continue to play a key role and illustrates how three specific scenarios will lead the way to increased relevance and leadership. Kuehn lays out what this might mean to you, along with the steps you need to take to realize these benefits.

According to Cutter Consortium Senior Consultant Whynde Kuehn, “Amid a backdrop of digital trans­formation and a continually shifting landscape of change, business architecture is gaining momentum and relevance.” In her article, she discusses the areas in which business architecture will continue to play a key role and illustrates how three specific scenarios will lead the way to increased relevance and leadership. Kuehn lays out what this might mean to you, along with the steps you need to take to realize these benefits.