This Executive Update examines some current trends in the API space, including API platforms, as well as the influence of microservices, streaming, and serverless on those API platforms. We also cover how enterprises are expanding their API program to include the broader concerns of enterprise architecture. Finally, we take a look at what those trends and perspective shifts may hold for us in the future.

In our studies of medical decision making under stressful conditions, we found that individual differences between users, such as experience level or familiarity with the technology, must be recognized as part of the context (i.e., individual user characteristics). In addition, local conditions such as time pressure or uncertainty provide another construct for context (i.e., environmental characteristics). We share a model for technology embeddedness in this Advisor.

Following the popularization of Agile in tech, educators in a small New York City startup who got word about it began experimenting with creating “agile classrooms” in an effort to increase student engagement and collaboration in otherwise conventional environments. 

Regulated industries should not pull back in their quest toward digital transformation but should instead find a way to embrace it. To begin, regulated industries should consider the questions explored in this Advisor.

There is a wealth of evolving business and IT strategies, disciplines, and technologies, but many of these concepts are technology-driven and lack a unifying vision. The cognitive enterprise, on the other hand, offers a business-driven vision for organizations where technology is merely a means to an end. This Executive Update outlines the purpose of the cognitive enterprise, its two fundamental underlying concepts, common scenarios that manifest within a cognitive enterprise, and how to position organizations to achieve this vision.

Innovation management processes do not follow a prescriptive, single formula. Each organization can decide and define what works. This Advisor provides a basic outline of the common elements/steps for a process to manage innovation with disruptive technologies.

The advent of big data technologies with an emphasis on the ease and speed of ingestion of large amounts of data into a data lake — as opposed to the often-complex traditional ETL processes for load­ing into a data warehouse — has meant far less focus on defining schemas or structures. The focus now shifts toward how to achieve an adequate level of governance of such data lakes. This is where the data catalog provides a central canonical reference point of business meaning to underpin any data governance activities of the data lake.

In this webinar with Cutter Consortium Senior Consultant Hillel Glazer, you’ll discover what needs to be “in your center” to ensure your organization is a high-performance operation.

In this Executive Update, we look at how non-software, product–based companies can successfully embrace Agile — and non-Agile — methods in a complementary way.

In this issue of The Cutter Edge we explore the idea of allowing and encouraging dissent in organizations, four best practices that can help address innovation challenges, and innovation models across industries.

In this issue of The Cutter Edge we explore the idea of allowing and encouraging dissent in organizations, four best practices that can help address innovation challenges, and innovation models across industries.

New commercial applications are now available that utilize artificial intelligence, machine vision, Internet of Things connectivity, and camera-based security technologies to detect and interdict active shooter incidences before they become deadly.

The cognitive enterprise relies on a business knowledgebase, framed by its business architecture, and cognitive computing technologies. In this webinar, you'll discover what it takes to evolve to become a highly adaptive enterprise — one that is increasingly efficient, effective, and responsive to customer demands; one that can respond quickly to whatever comes its way.

In Part VI of this Executive Update series on statistical project management, we look at the “nature” of the project and its role as the firm’s “working memory.”

A North American energy-producing company was seeking to understand how to change its status-quo pattern of finding new solutions only when it was abundantly clear it would be unable to meet its yearly market targets. In short, it was looking for a different approach to conducting its operations organization. To that end, I encouraged leadership to focus on several areas, including the topic of this Advisor: fostering a mindset of challenging the status quo on everything.

In the digitized world of financial data, there are truly enormous volumes of heterogeneous structured and unstructured data across siloed data stores. Managing such complexity is beyond human cognitive abilities or comprehension; hence, AI-based smart machines are required to assist human cognition and decision making. We believe that if AI is to achieve its promise, financial institutions are going to have to address a range of challenges.

In the digitized world of financial data, there are truly enormous volumes of heterogeneous structured and unstructured data across siloed data stores. Managing such complexity is beyond human cognitive abilities or comprehension; hence, AI-based smart machines are required to assist human cognition and decision making. We believe that if AI is to achieve its promise, financial institutions are going to have to address a range of challenges.

We don’t want to design in one large lump — ever! Instead, we want to create a layer or certain amount of architecture (services, plumbing, back-end functionality, etc.) and then build something on top of it. 

In this month’s issue of Cutter Business Technology Journal, we examine the latest advancements in technologies related to Industry 4.0 and the impact of these technologies on work, business, and organizations by featuring six articles that cover a range of topics.

In this month’s issue of Cutter Business Technology Journal, we examine the latest advancements in technologies related to Industry 4.0 and the impact of these technologies on work, business, and organizations by featuring six articles that cover a range of topics.

This Advisor describes some of the notable challenges facing the evolution of blockchain.

In Part III of this Executive Update series on customer experience (CX) management in the enterprise, we examine findings pertaining to the benefits organizations hope to obtain from implementing CX practices and technologies.

We strongly believe our self-organizing model based in full transparency has been key to our success. In this Advisor, we take a look at each of the main positive results our company has been able to achieve thanks to this model.

To show what is being implemented with currently available drone technologies and within the current regulatory framework, this Advisor offers examples from three verticals: construction, engineering, and precision agriculture.

This issue of Cutter Business Technology Journal examines the latest advancements in technologies related to Industry 4.0 and the impact of these technologies on work, business, and organizations. We feature six articles in this issue that cover a range of topics.