We’re going to make some business people cringe right off the bat with this claim: there is an ontology in your near future. In this article, we will explain what that means and why we assert it.

What’s in store for drones in 2019? Continued integration into business workflows and the national airspace, along with more innovations coming to market in UAS technologies.

What’s in store for drones in 2019? Continued integration into business workflows and the national airspace, along with more innovations coming to market in UAS technologies.

Using preliminary results from an ongoing Cutter Consortium survey, along with additional research, Cutter Consortium Senior Consultant Curt Hall has identified several trends and developments that organizations may want to consider when assessing their own CX management journey.

Using preliminary results from an ongoing Cutter Consortium survey, along with additional research, Cutter Consortium Senior Consultant Curt Hall has identified several trends and developments that organizations may want to consider when assessing their own CX management journey.

With 2019 here and 2020 around the corner, it is time to recognize there are new rules in analytics and data management. These rules have created a wildly different analytics environment from the past. It’s time for organizations to embrace these new rules.

With 2019 here and 2020 around the corner, it is time to recognize there are new rules in analytics and data management. These rules have created a wildly different analytics environment from the past. It’s time for organizations to embrace these new rules.

This article explores some of the ways in which effective risk management approaches, in particular the use of key risk indicators (KRIs) to drive proactive executive behavior, can reduce unnecessary risk exposure and minimize the potential for catastrophic events. We discuss the current state of risk-monitoring maturity in the business world, considerations for the selection of appropriate leading and lagging KRIs and their effective implementation, and then present insight for executives on what steps to take to improve risk monitoring.

This article explores some of the ways in which effective risk management approaches, in particular the use of key risk indicators (KRIs) to drive proactive executive behavior, can reduce unnecessary risk exposure and minimize the potential for catastrophic events. We discuss the current state of risk-monitoring maturity in the business world, considerations for the selection of appropriate leading and lagging KRIs and their effective implementation, and then present insight for executives on what steps to take to improve risk monitoring.

As we begin a new year and the world accelerates and shifts around us, it is important to take an honest look at where we are with enterprise architecture (EA) today and where we are — or should be — going.

Cutter Consortium Senior Consultants Rick Eagar, Gregory Pankert, Raf Postepski, and Sean Sullivan discuss how the role of a CEO in 2019 is very different from that of a decade ago, primarily because traditional business boundaries are blurring while the pace of business continues to accelerate. The authors explore the changes in the CEO role and propose a new framework to help CEOs map the right strategic direction for their organizations.

This article describes some trends about technologies, technologists, and technoligarchs. First, we’ll look at the technologies with the most momentum. Next, we’ll examine the technologists escaping from data centers. Finally, we’ll round out the discussion by addressing the technoligarchs who control much of the digital landscape.

This article describes some trends about technologies, technologists, and technoligarchs. First, we’ll look at the technologies with the most momentum. Next, we’ll examine the technologists escaping from data centers. Finally, we’ll round out the discussion by addressing the technoligarchs who control much of the digital landscape.

Combining the fundamentally different paradigms of Agile architecture and architectural agility can prove to reinforce one another. In a real-world case study from the consumer sector, this Advisor describes one company’s experience combining Agile and EA.

Architectures that combine blockchain and AI offer some exciting possibilities, not only for DRM, but for other applications as well — like supply chain, financial, and trading systems. These include those systems that need to provide responses to events that require a higher form of reasoning than can be practically performed using blockchain’s smart contract functionality alone. Researchers are now working out the particulars of such applications, and we hope to see commercial platforms emerging over the next few years.

In this, the final Update of the series, we summarize the ideas we have discussed with the goal of leaving you, the business analyst, with a starting point for the application of Agile principles.

In this Advisor, the authors use the case of a fictitious financial company to take a detailed look at fintech and marketing and how a company can leverage big data, analytics, marketing, and financial services. 

One of the keys to a solid architecture is considering how your organization will test it. This is true not only from an end-to-end perspective, but also when considering areas like usability, performance, security, reliability, and resilience. You must make these investments in quality and testing transparent to your stakeholders and help them realize their value proposition.

In this Executive Update, we focus our attention on the intersection of design thinking (as a method for understanding opportunities through a different lens) and digital transformation (the use of technology to radically improve performance or reach). In many cases, digital transformation is employed in an effort to create a competitive advantage, which in today’s business environment can at best be considered a transient advantage because sustaining anything for a long period of time is highly unlikely. 

Agile development is best known in the software world, where projects are easily understood as iterative. But until now, it hasn't been leveraged in developing industrial products. The new Industrial Agile Framework brings the benefits of Agile methods to industrial product development.   

When people speak of capability assessments, they are referring to capturing and maintaining various metrics about the capabilities in their capability map, which can then be assessed to identify improvement opportunities and make such decisions as where to invest. Capturing these attributes provides a more complete view of each capability, beyond mere definitional information, making capabilities much more useful in practice. Organizations can use capability assessment information in a variety of proactive or reactive scenarios.

Creating your own How to be Successful with Breakthrough Innovation syllabus from our modular sessions will ensure that your program is right for your organization. No matter how you configure the series of sessions, you can be sure you’ll be getting strategy, insight, and advice that you can put to work right away. You’ll emerge with new ideas and strategies that have been tested and proven by innovative business leaders, and which you can put into action immediately.

In Part X, we examine survey findings pertaining to current AI application design and development trends and plans by organizations to utilize outside AI experts and to train employees in AI development. 

In Part X, we examine survey findings pertaining to current AI application design and development trends and plans by organizations to utilize outside AI experts and to train employees in AI development. 

One of the key reasons organizations invoke for staying away from public clouds is security, and specifically the risk that unauthorized parties will access data. From a technology perspective, placing data in a public cloud may actually improve security rather than weaken it. We explore the four simple reasons for this in this Advisor.