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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In this on-demand webinar, Senior Consultant Maurizio Mancini shows how organizations that work at building in quality rather than trying to test it in will have a significant market advantage. Companies such as Apple, Honda, and Toyota have all had success with applying some of these concepts.
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As we begin another year and try to predict where quality assurance (QA) will go in the next few years, we need to reflect for a moment on where QA has been — especially with the dire predictions in recent years that QA in software engineering is dead.
2016 is the year we can all look forward to a host of “new” Agile practices, each with its own nuance, and each with its own subset of practitioners.
When you join a party where everyone is having the best time imaginable, the last thing on your mind is how annoyed the people next door are, and how happy the people paying for it are. Those are two major considerations for Agile in 2016, which will appear as the not-too-subtle subtext for several ongoing developments.
Darren Meister spends most of his time looking at how individuals access data, information, and knowledge in ways that allow them to make better decisions and to enjoy themselves. With that in mind, here are a few thoughts about some trends that he thinks will push demands on corporate IT departments and the IT industry broadly: wearables, machine intelligence, and data visualization.
I’ve been an enterprise architect since 1984, and the main thrust for EA over all those years has been about giving direction to architectural evolution.
Business continues to change under the increasing impact of IT and globalization. In today's world, cloud computing makes it possible for a small company to access the resources such as accounting and management tools just like those used by larger companies at a relatively small price. Outsourcing makes it possible to create a business from an assembly of services, with innovation itself often outsourced. Crowdfunding is creating specialty startups outside the normal bounds of investment, and enormous growth in mergers is making acquisition a critical and routine source of new business ideas.