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
Integration and divestment form a key part of many corporate strategies. In line with that activity, enterprise architecture (EA) deals with integrating architectures from two or more organizations as they merge or split off architectural components for sale or divestment just as much as it has to support the evolution of architecture within an enterprise.
The simple truth is that performing the mechanics of Agile or Scrum well at the team level is just not enough to ensure that you will see all the benefits you should. Let me say that in another way: having teams perform Scrum or any Agile process exactly right, in a textbook-like fashion, does not guarantee you will achieve your organization's goals for adopting Agile.
In part I of this series of Advisors, I discussed the "Internet of Things" (IoT) and its industry/business counterpart the "industrial Internet" (see "The Internet of Things: Lots of Data, Lots of Opportunities -- Part I").
This Executive Update describes the good, the bad, and the ugly, and sounds a warning for all implementers and adopters of this new technology.
