Strategic advice to leverage new technologies
Technology is at the heart of nearly every enterprise, enabling new business models and strategies, and serving as the catalyst to industry convergence. Leveraging the right technology can improve business outcomes, providing intelligence and insights that help you make more informed and accurate decisions. From finding patterns in data through data science, to curating relevant insights with data analytics, to the predictive abilities and innumerable applications of AI, to solving challenging business problems with ML, NLP, and knowledge graphs, technology has brought decision-making to a more intelligent level. Keep pace with the technology trends, opportunities, applications, and real-world use cases that will move your organization closer to its transformation and business goals.
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An ongoing challenge with big data and other secondary analytics initiatives is getting access to data. This Advisor describes a risk-based approach to de-identification, in which the data is transformed and administrative and technical controls are put in place.
During this on-demand webinar with Mike Rosen, you'll discover why your organization should use a business architecture and value delivery–based approach to digital strategy. And you'll learn why provisioning the platform based on next-generation application, information, security, and technology architectures is critical.
The road to automating software development is long and full of twists and turns. No doubt, there will be potholes and detours along the way. However, getting to the end goal now seems possible, if we travel a short distance at a time.
This Advisor provides an overview of the importance of using visual techniques as part of a business architecture practice and highlights the use of visual design.
For most organizations that have deployed customer experience (CX) practices and technologies, it is still too early to tell if their efforts have actually allowed them to deliver a better customer experience. However, for approximately 31% of the organizations that have deployed CX practices and technologies, their initial efforts appear to be paying off. These findings come from the preliminary results of an ongoing CX management survey we are conducting.
Agile Approach to Designing for Consequences
This Executive Update introduces a timely, new Agile event: consequence scanning. This event fits into an iterative development cadence and allows organizations to consider the potential consequences of what is being built — early and often. We explain the need to embed proactive and dedicated consideration of potential consequences within an organization’s product development and outline how best to do it with consequence scanning.
There are a multitude of innovative applications across industries where RPA solutions are improving the quality of repeated tasks and releasing resources. In this Advisor, I share a sampling of a few interesting case studies and examples of RPA in action.
Michael Gleeson discusses how public health agencies and emergency managers can leverage the digitization of contact tracing of airline passengers at risk from a biological outbreak. He outlines the increased risk of infection and spread, facilitated by the increased numbers of airline passengers globally. A global framework to prepare for and respond to a biological threat, natural or otherwise, spread via air travel, can be achieved through the digitization of contact tracing using a collaborative approach among the airline industry, public health agencies, and EM practitioners. Identifying and locating at-risk passengers in a fast and efficient manner is paramount to limiting contagion spread.