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.
Recently Published
In January, I discussed key developments with IBM's Watson natural language understanding and analytics question-and-answering system (see "IBM Bets the Future on Watson").
This Executive Update shares an approach on how you can enable self-service for a specific BI end-user community. The approach involves first assessing the analytical appetite of the user group and positioning those professionals in a three-tiered pyramid before applying the appropriate technology strategies.
Predictive Maintenance for Machine Optimization
This Executive Update examines key trends and developments around the application of predictive maintenance in industrial and enterprise operations and discusses a real-world application example intended to optimize earth-moving equipment used in mining operations.
Marketing in Transition
The growth of mobile technology and devices such as smartphones has created a new phenomenon for communication and deeply changed the way businesses process data. One such phenomenon that has emerged in the business environment is "bring your own device" (BYOD), which means that employees use their personal devices to access company resources for work, inside or outside the organizational environment.