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This Executive Update describes Cognizant's embrace of the small app concept, which evolved without significant investment in reengineering the legacy environment. Any organization can adopt this approach during its IT transformation journey.
Big Data, another alternative, is a very popular topic these days. While Part I described probabilistic decision making as based on "quantitative behavioral performance of the operation," one might reasonably ask how this differs from or can be accomplished with Big Data analysis. We'll address this observation in this Update.
In the first sentence of his excellent 9 December 2013 blog post, Andrew McAfee points out the following: "Here's a simple rule for the second machine age we're in now: as the amount of data goes up,
This month we present five wide-ranging, insightful articles on the possible technological, management, and business skills that executives, managers, and workers in organizations (private and public sector, large and small) will need in the 2020-2025 timeframe as a result of the ceaseless improvement in information systems and their core technologies. While the articles by our group of international authors offer different predictions about what skills individuals and organizations will need to have in order to succeed in the next decade, they all agree that they will likely be radically different from the skills considered to be in the vanguard today. Not a client? Download your complimentary copy of this report now.
