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The world of civic apps is much like any other corporate philanthropic effort, but when there's corporate involvement (perhaps involving some of your corporation's specific skills), the efforts can help highlight your capabilities and can provide new opportunities for developing corporate expertise and resources.
While all the trappings of my hometown are largely still there -- the park, the DQ, the cinema on the square -- none of them are run the same way or operate the way they did when I was young. As our enterprises flourish, we need to realize that there are inherently some operational aspects that will neither require nor get our personal touch. It doesn't mean they aren't functioning. It means that they are functioning without our oversight. As such, they will evolve organically to some degree.
We work in business environments where the focus is often mainly on quickly achieving results. In many companies, making a group decision can create long debates that can rage on extensively for the sake of making the perfect decision and not making a mistake.
This Executive Update explores a structured and integrated approach to EA governance, one that has clear alignment to business and IT objectives and is integrated effectively with existing processes, helping your organization achieve its business and IT objectives.
The impact of robotics is hot in current debates, but this must be seen within a larger context and on a longer time horizon. Automation, involving all the SMAC (social, mobile, analytics, and cloud) technologies, and not just from robotics, may have the biggest impact of all, both on outsourcing and on its character. One of the reasons automation is compelling is the rapid decline in the cost of computing relative to the cost of labor.
The recent Cutter Summit 2015 presented many enlightening and inspiring presentations, including the "lightning talks," in which 12 participants spent five minutes each describing a current noteworthy development or result. Very impressive. This was after Cutter Fellow Steve Andriole encouraged us to review our resumes, as he described the imminent demise of the IT organization in most enterprises. This situation evolves through recent technology developments and organizational patterns, such as cloud.
Business architecture confronts head-on the issue of business and technology strategic alignment and takes the proverbial bull by its horns.
Smart clothing utilizes textile sensors embedded directly within their fabrics. This allows such garments to function as biometric data-gathering devices. Examples include shirts, sports bras, gloves, smart socks, and shoes that can capture and relay information from the wearer -- such as heart rate, perspiration, respiration, grip, running form, fitness levels, and more. The data is typically transmitted wirelessly to a smartphone to provide direct feedback to the wearer, and to a cloud platform for applying machine learning (ML) and other analytics in order to generate behavioral feedback.