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.
Insight
Many organizations lack automation in their deployment processes. When asked, developers and operations engineers often talk about their many deployment scripts, their pages of documentation, and their personal knowledge of their applications' deep internal settings and configurations. Yet this doesn't really give us a clear idea of how well automated the deployment process is. We must drill deeper to understand the current DevOps process by asking the following questions:
Cutter IT Journal VOL. 27, NO. 12
Cutter IT Journal VOL. 27, NO. 12
Cutter IT Journal VOL. 27, NO. 12
Cutter IT Journal VOL. 27, NO. 12
This Executive Report explains what we mean by a business model, provides a classification of business models relevant to the enterprise architecture (EA) use of business models, and describes some of the key business models and how they relate to EA.
"Business model" is a catch-all phrase that covers models of a wide variety of types, so we start the accompanying Executive Report with a taxonomy of business model types. The report then goes on to give examples of the various types of business models in our taxonomy. Next, the report goes on to examine some of the key changes required in enterprise architecture in recent years as a consequence of changes in business models. Finally, we look at several business model frameworks that the EA team can use to convert or translate business models into architectural descriptions.