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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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.
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.
In this hour-long webinar, Cutter Consortium Senior Consultants Hubert Smits and Peter Borsella introduce the Industrial Agile Framework — a framework for applying Agile to physical product delivery (for example, cash registers, integrated circuits, cars, or …).
This continuation of my previous Executive Update series encompasses my experience with this method of project management beginning in 1992 and continuing with successive waves of improvements across five different organizations — two in the consulting business and three within university CIO offices. Here in Part IV, we look at metrics V3 and V4.
The bad news is that wildfires worldwide appear to be increasing — both in frequency and intensity. The good news is that the electrical utilities are applying AI for the inspection and analysis of critical infrastructure in an effort to detect and prevent wildfires caused by extreme weather, encroaching vegetation, and infrastructure failure.
This Executive Update explores some tools and techniques that have been used to successfully deal with and manage a hidden culture.
Many organizations are now focusing on a hybrid cloud strategy: moving part of their IT capabilities to the cloud, while maintaining core elements in-house, hosted on-premises. The hybrid model is becoming immensely customary among organizations, as it enables them to optimally allocate their resources while keeping their current IT infrastructure operating at low risk. A hybrid cloud strategy not only prepares an organization for the future but also protects its investment today.