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, Cutter Senior Consultant Dave Frankel discusses how some proactive architectural coordination can prevent Agile teams with fluid requirements from producing software silos that don't integrate well with each other.
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Over the last decade, software developers Mary and Tom Poppendieck and others have pointed out that just as in manufacturing, software development benefits from Lean thinking. More recently, Lean methods have extended to broader business processes, including both development and operations (DevOps).
Infectious disease experts from the US Centers for Disease Control (CDC) and medical advisors from other US public health agencies have repeatedly stated that the US healthcare system is more than capable of dealing with any incidences of Ebola that occur in the US. Since the outbreak began in West Africa, the press has cited various officials saying that the US -- indeed, the western world in general -- leads in understanding Ebola and how to contain the disease.
This Executive Update explores the key dimensions of development intelligence, including the types of development and organizational levels, and analytics maturity and what is measured.
By looking ahead to a time when monitoring blood sugar and delivering insulin can occur in real time, one can see a time when worldwide diabetes might be brought under control, and with it all its terrible side effects. Moreover, research has already shown promise that blood sugar monitoring can be made nonintrusive. Google, for one, has patented a contact lens that monitors blood sugar via the fluids in the eye.
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