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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Few would argue that social media is not important when it comes to engaging customers for advertising, PR, sales, service, and other CRM activities. Yet due to compliance considerations, many organizations have real concerns when it comes to using social media in such capacities.
This Executive Report examines the current status and possible applications of the IoT in business, industry, and government. We also consider technologies for managing sensors and other data associated with IoT applications as well as issues that could possibly limit the growth and acceptance of the IoT.
Cisco calls it the "Internet of Everything." For GE, it's the "Industrial Internet." But the generic name used by most people is the "Internet of Things (IoT)." All these terms refer to the same concept: the use of electronic sensors -- supported by social, mobile, analytics, and cloud (SMAC) technologies -- to enable a multitude of connected devices and machines, and a subsequent deluge of data, both of which lead to a host of new opportunities in
I have recently seen the SAFe framework criticized by the Scrum founder as well as the Kanban founder (see "unSAFEe at Any Speed" and "Kanban -- The Anti-SAFe for Almost a Decade Already"). Method wars are not new, however, and could go on forever. In the face of these discussions, it is important to remember the real intent behind Agile methods.
