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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Discover how to maximize your Agile project’s business value and deliver predictable results — the ultimate objective of any performance measurement system — using EVM.

This Advisor considers the decision-making challenges faced by architects within complex enterprises and in the face of many kinds of uncertainties, as well as a way to think about how to design in the real-world gray area that lies between certainty and uncertainty.

Blockchain has a number of applications in finance and accounting, including for facilitating triple-entry accounting, ensuring data integrity, automated auditing, and streamlining money transfers and payments.

I strongly believe that adopting a particular methodology is not the answer to achieving agility. Rather, organizations need to fix their internal structure and the way they operate. In this Advisor, I will discuss the challenges hindering agility and also the bottlenecks that prevent organizations from delivering business value. I focus on six phenomena that make any organization rigid.

The emergence of CX design as a key discipline practiced by many organizations has opened up some questions about how it relates to business architecture. This Executive Update provides an overview of the benefits and integration points between CX design and business architecture, two mutually beneficial disciplines, both critical to customer centricity and transformation. 

EA can be an effective tool for addressing digital and IT transformation in businesses of any size, as long as they are not rigid about their approach and do not try using a big hammer where thumb pressure will work.

This Executive Update highlights the importance of V for value in big data strategies. The discussion also explores how the adoption of big data is more than using technologies or undertaking analytics.

In this Advisor, I look at three stages of information superiority, with increasing levels of customer centricity.