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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As has been our tradition for the last several years, we've compiled the five most intriguing articles published by the Business & Enterprise Architecture practice for today's Advisor. How did we come up with this list? We chose the articles that garnered the most feedback from Cutter Members. Your questions and comments not only make it possible to create lists like this, they help focus Cutter's Senior Consultants' research on the areas that are most important to organizations like yours. So please keep your feedback coming.
As has been our tradition for the last several years, we've compiled the five most intriguing articles published by the Data Analytics & Digital Technologies 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.
In this series of Advisors, we share a conversation among Cutter colleagues of the Agile Product Management & Software Engineering Excellence practice. In this installment, Practice Director Tom Grant shares his thoughts on Agile frameworks.
Jelly molds come in all shapes and sizes. You can get ones in the shape of a rabbit, pig, cat, or butterfly, and dinosaurs are really popular. In addition to animal shapes, there are airplanes, castles, or a traditional pudding shaped–mold. But the key thing about jelly molds is that every time we pour jelly into the mold, it will produce the same shape. And that is true of architectural jelly molds as well; they force outputs into a specific shape or pattern. If we look at enterprise architecture today, there are a small number of jelly mold styles that get used over and over again.
Last week, IBM launched the Watson Internet of Things (IoT) business unit. The goal: apply the natural language processing (NLP), machine learning (ML), and other advanced analytic techniques of its Watson cognitive computing platform to capitalize on helping clients develop IoT applications tailored to specific industries and applications. The initial focus will be on automotive, electronics, healthcare, insurance, and industrial manufacturing.
The neuromorphic — or “brain” — chip is one of a number of avenues of development being pursued to extend the processing power of computers beyond Moore’s Law and to initiate the changes required for artificial intelligence (AI) applications.
Enterprises in every domain are undergoing digital transformation. New age digital companies are overturning the existing business models, and technology is fundamentally driving these changes. In this article, Manish Gupta explores how existing enterprises can transform and digitize their business, operations, and technology processes to compete better in the market, create new revenue opportunities, and better serve the customer.
Digital customer engagement, for example, has blurred organizational boundaries, giving rise to practices such as open innovation, social question-and-answer sites, and crowdfunding. More recently, the influx of wearable technologies and smart devices has set in motion a migration of digital activities into the analog space. These devices bring new capabilities, some of which are incremental extensions of existing systems, others of which are radically and profoundly new.