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 issue of Cutter Edge: The Agile Challenge in System Design | Stat of the Week | A Peek Behind the Curtains of Design Thinking | CFP: Technical Debt
Enterprises and organizations are hybrid "sociotechnical" systems of people, along with the things made by people. They consist of complex collections of physical things, software things, and the mental states of human minds.
The most important development I see taking place in 2016 (and beyond) concerning analytics and decision support is the growing commercialization of cognitive systems. Cognitive systems are now having an impact on the consumer and the enterprise worlds by changing the way data is analyzed, and the way that people interact with computers.
A train is only as good as its fastest carriage. Agile can claim to have increased the speed and quality of solutions development through the Agile Manifesto, the Agile principles, and the many popular Agile practices (e.g., user stories, daily standups, and the wall). However, an important discovery by many of us in practice is that faster and higher-quality development in itself is not enough. In fact, faster time to development can lead to problems.
I have seen — and am sure that many of you have, as well — architecture cartoons, cost-benefit numbers, and trade-off-matrices that look pretty but lack the integrity that we need from these artifacts. This is not to say that these representations do not hold potential. They do, if we are able to tease out the signal from the noise, and if we are able to bring out the nuances related to where on the fact-to-fiction spectrum a particular data point lies.
Emerging technologies continue to challenge IT as the pace of innovation and introduction of disruptive new platforms continues to accelerate. We are on the verge of huge changes across every area of technology and society. Dominant themes include mobility, interconnection, agility, and global participation. The technologies that support these trends involve Cloud computing, artificial intelligence, big data, the Internet of Things (IoT), mobility, modularization, Internet connectivity, and the digitization of everything.
- This Executive Update provides an introduction to APIs — what they are, why they matter, and how they can help you manage project development faster and more efficiently
As has been our tradition for the last several years, we've compiled the most intriguing articles published by the Agile Product Management & Software Engineering Excellence practice this year for today's Advisor. How did we come up with this list? We chose the articles that garnered the most feedback from Cutter Members and clients and those that created controversy among Cutter Senior Consultants and Fellows.