Blockchain protocols have the potential to facilitate a fundamental shift in the Internet business model from its current status, where the user is the product, to a future model, where the user is the customer and the user’s data always remains in the user’s control.

Blockchain has the potential to transform and disrupt the food and retail industries. Giving access to real-time, auditable, trustworthy information on an immutable ledger about the origin, processing, and handling of food will change how consumers make purchasing decisions, level the playing field for high-quality products, and enable new possibilities in consumer, inventory, and supply chain analytics.

One of the major use cases for blockchain is smart contracts. Does it make sense for your organization to use smart contracts? In this article, we describe smart contracts, including a discussion of how they work and the possible benefits of using them. We also examine the downsides of their use and offer further considerations for the reader.

One of the major use cases for blockchain is smart contracts. Does it make sense for your organization to use smart contracts? In this article, we describe smart contracts, including a discussion of how they work and the possible benefits of using them. We also examine the downsides of their use and offer further considerations for the reader.

As businesses adopt blockchain technologies, the eco­sphere is going to need a specified intermediary agent whose core function is to manage disparate motives, ideologies, and inclinations. If left unaddressed, tensions may morph into enacted tribalism, and a major disjunct will appear between stakeholder groups — potentially stopping the so-called revolution in its tracks.

As businesses adopt blockchain technologies, the eco­sphere is going to need a specified intermediary agent whose core function is to manage disparate motives, ideologies, and inclinations. If left unaddressed, tensions may morph into enacted tribalism, and a major disjunct will appear between stakeholder groups — potentially stopping the so-called revolution in its tracks.

The ability to link smaller chunks of capabilities and resources together into patterns that generate value may hold the key to a more modern enterprise.

Organizations that desire to leverage business architecture for transformation, better strategy execution, or various types of decision making need to build their business architec­ture knowledgebase first before they can fully benefit from the discipline. This Executive Update is the first in a series that describes how to accelerate the development of an organization’s business architecture. 

The main benefit organizations seek to obtain from adopting AI is the ability to create new ways of automating business processes.

This Advisor examines initial survey findings pertaining to the establishment of dedicated enterprise AI groups and the reason such groups oversee enterprise AI efforts.

In this Advisor, we explore the concept of itamae and the role of leadership on the road to agility.

Clearly, if your bit of code must talk to a database over here and a Web server over there, then a bit of architecture goes a long way.

Here in Part II, we examine findings pertaining to the establishment of detailed strategies for enterprise adoption and dissemination of AI across the organization, status of “chief AI officers," and budgeting for AI.

Here in Part II, we examine findings pertaining to the establishment of detailed strategies for enterprise adoption and dissemination of AI across the organization, status of “chief AI officers," and budgeting for AI.

We have been confronted for nearly two decades with a dual data storage and processing landscape, supported by two very distinct scenes of tool vendors and products. Nowadays, we see a complete convergence of the operational and tactical/strategic data needs of the corresponding data integration tooling. This evolution poses interesting challenges to the landscape of data storage and data integration solutions.

The best teams we have worked with know their strength is not the Agile framework alone, but how the team sources ideas and plans and delivers its backlog. Strong team process requires strong team empathy that allows teams to embrace creative tension to uncover novel ways of producing value.

Technology does not reform or change humans. It accelerates and unleashes more of who we are, both good and bad.

In this Executive Update, we recommend some Agile techniques and best practices that retain the benefits of a central EDW while reducing the expense and lack of responsiveness to business needs and change. This data-focused approach offers a way to define user stories in a complex EDW architecture, addressing both application and information value to users and delivering a data warehouse that provides high-quality information and is resilient to change.

In this Executive Update, we devise a conceptual model and practical design guidelines for the holistic management of all resources (e.g., servers, networks, storage, cooling systems) to improve energy efficiency and to reduce the carbon footprints in cloud data centers (CDCs). Furthermore, we discuss the intertwined relationship between energy and reliability for sustainable cloud computing, where we highlight the associated issues. Finally, we propose a set of future areas to investigate in the field and propose further practical developments.

In this Executive Update, we devise a conceptual model and practical design guidelines for the holistic management of all resources (e.g., servers, networks, storage, cooling systems) to improve energy efficiency and to reduce the carbon footprints in cloud data centers (CDCs). Furthermore, we discuss the intertwined relationship between energy and reliability for sustainable cloud computing, where we highlight the associated issues. Finally, we propose a set of future areas to investigate in the field and propose further practical developments.

This Executive Update presents a Data-Agile approach designed to apply most Agile principles to a robust soup-to-nuts spiral data integration methodology that includes all the data management activities crucial for enterprise-class data integration projects. 

Working with business leaders, we have developed a simple yet powerful framework to help them navigate the digital landscape. It is based on four business-focused questions that are at the core of effective governance of digital and that every business leader should have in his or her head. We call these questions the four “ares.” In this Advisor, we discuss two of the “ares.”

In an ongoing Cutter Consortium survey covering the adoption and application of AI technology, we asked organizations about their plans for using AI-as-a-Service platforms and services.

In this Update, I delve deeper into the importance of the level at which analytics are performed — in particular, the need to pay attention to two keywords: granularity and context. In the absence of awareness of granularity and context, analytics may not provide the necessary value to the business and, as a result, increase business risks. 

I’ve come to understand that trust is one of the most fundamental ways that leaders can give their teams space within an Agile transformation effort.