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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Innovative applications that embrace new technologies are fraught with risks, which require innovative approaches for their handling. This Advisor explores some of the risks and challenges in applying the Internet of Things (IoT) and cloud in the business space and discusses challenges that arise due to lack of interoperability and some practical standards in the IoT and cloud space.
Introducing an enterprise architecture (EA) that enables digital business strategies poses challenges for startups. In this article, I discuss how a startup’s culture plays a part in overcoming these difficulties, outline the steps involved in adopting an EA framework, and show how implementing an EA practice can help such businesses evolve.
An organization with an established business architecture practice can greatly accelerate and improve the results of its digital transformation — because of the enterprise framework and the cohesive strategy execution approach that are inherent to business architecture.
The single most important process change that you can make in “climbing the ladder” from a tactical EA program to a strategic one is to connect business architecture with the PMO.
What is the correlation between the business or operating model and the enterprise architecture? What are the pros and cons of the various enterprise patterns that are a response to these changes? The authors in this issue of CBTJ offer practical answers, ideas, and advice to help you and your EA practice respond to the immediate digital challenge. However, enterprise architecture should also consider the larger future.
Supply chain/logistics meet most of the criteria required for a domain or application area when it comes to suitability for applying blockchain technology.
Whether we choose to face it or not, digital disruption is here to stay. Whether we choose to accept it or not, digital disruption will affect every enterprise.
Confused and confusing conversations centered on “process” occur frequently at organizations large and small, with process efficiency, process governance, and process adoption all suffering as a result. It’s vital, therefore, to take the time to understand the root cause of the confusion and help people grasp the needs and perspectives of the other stakeholder groups.