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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Great things are done by a series of small things brought together. --Vincent Van Gogh
In a previous Advisor (see "Mobility: Did Thee Feel the Architecture Move?"), we observed that the enterprise's architecture has begun a move toward the edges of the enterprise. And, with that extension to the "edge," it is obvious that the enterprise can no longer be the sole architect of the structures that prop up the edifice of business.
A beautiful app with a poorly defined feature set or a terrible infrastructure ultimately doesn't stand much chance of success.
This Executive Update is focused on drilling home the importance of defining a true minimum viable product (MVP) and having the discipline to stick to that definition. We will discuss the payoff for your hard work and discipline.
A key promise of SOA is that the activities in business process models that business analysts define can be instrumented by engineers to invoke SOA services. This approach to building applications is supposed to help align the business and IT sides of the house. In principle, this alignment increases agility by diminishing the impedance between conceiving a business process and executing it. Where a business process management system with a process execution engine is in place, it is even possible in some cases to directly execute business process models.
Principles describe a stable set of guiding values. So are there any fundamental core principles that consistently guide all enterprise architecture practice? And, if so, what are they? When we know these core principles, and make them clear to all stakeholders, then the purpose and value of EA will be more visible and obvious. In this Executive Update, we explore and answer these questions, and list the 10 core principles followed by contemporary EA practice.
This Executive Update focuses on survey findings pertaining the extent that organizations use social media to monitor and engage customers; the areas and domains in which organizations use or plan to use social media for customer engagement; the establishment of formal policies and procedures governing enterprise social media usage; formal employee training programs for using social media; the use of social relationship management (SRM) platforms; and the key sought-after functionality of SRM platforms.
Decision making is greatly aided by visual systems because we can't ignore a huge physical artifact that is showing us a need for change or action. In this article, Jim Benson looks at the kanban board as a tool to see work and gain insights into how to make work better.
In this on-demand Cutter webinar, you'll learn how to get the most from your retrospective practices. Senior Consultant Diana Larsen will introduce you to a simple framework for better outcomes from retrospective meetings, maintaining the relevance of improvement to the work of your team, and great returns from the time your teams devote to every meeting.