As companies move toward solving more of their critical everyday needs with advanced technology, almost all report suffering from a shortage of skills to handle wave after wave of new technologies. This Advisor explores the skills shortage in Industry 4.0.

By creating a shared direction, a common purpose around the need to improve, and learning how to scale our innovation efforts, our company made the leap from scattered experiences to a culture of continuous innovation.

Cognitive enterprise scenarios span business ecosystems, extending into partner and customer domains. Generally, the cognitive enterprise is a sense-and-respond, adaptive organization that can execute quickly, learning as it evolves. The cognitive enterprise represents a holistic vision for organizations through which they may view other near- and long-term strategies.

There is a symbiotic relationship between the picture frames arising from such words and the pictures painted by enterprise architects. That is the theme of this Advisor: architects can make enterprise frames come to life, and the frames can breathe life into architecture.

In this week's The Cutter Edge: three questions those in regulated industries should consider to help kick-start their digital transformation efforts; how a company established a fully transparent information system to enable company-wide decision-making; and what it takes to become a cognitive or highly adaptive enterprise.

In this week's The Cutter Edge: three questions those in regulated industries should consider to help kick-start their digital transformation efforts; how a company established a fully transparent information system to enable company-wide decision-making; and what it takes to become a cognitive or highly adaptive enterprise.

Transparency and fairness are major concerns for end-user organizations, commercial developers, AI researchers, and government agencies seeking to apply AI technology.

This Advisor proposes an architecture for the delivery of a connected health service that may pave the way for future connected health systems.

This Advisor proposes an architecture for the delivery of a connected health service that may pave the way for future connected health systems.

We’re all familiar with the analogy of peeling an onion to find out what’s going on in the center. If what we want is to create and sustain a high-performance operation, then we already know what’s at the center. We just have to figure out what’s required to get there.

When applying an Agile approach to product development, the key Agile principles remain the same. However, as we explore in this Advisor, certain elements take on a different twist.

Communicating with others about a new architectural vision of the future requires techniques such as illustrations and presentation design, graphic recording and facilitation, and storytelling. Storytelling in particular reaches people on a human level, as we explore in this Advisor.

Communicating with others about a new architectural vision of the future requires techniques such as illustrations and presentation design, graphic recording and facilitation, and storytelling. Storytelling in particular reaches people on a human level, as we explore in this Advisor.

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.

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.