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
For a long time, the predominant business assumption was that specialization (around markets and business functions) was the right approach to complexity (divide and conquer), efficiency, and market responsiveness (closer knows best). In a divide-and-conquer paradigm, the "pipes and filters" pattern -- with islands (or silos) of information processing, decision making, and action, and "pipes" or information buffers between -- works well enough organizationally and for the technology firmament supporting that mode of business operation.
There is no escaping the talk (and rhetoric!) about Big Data. Vendors are peddling Big Data solutions; consulting firms employ Big Data specialists to help you with your Big Data projects; universities offer Big Data courses; Big Data conferences are aplenty; and tech journalists, magazines, and even blogs are buzzing about the Big Data revolution. This is great, especially after the Great Recession we just endured. We welcome any excitement about technology buzzwords!
Executive Update
Closing the Loop: State of the Art in Business Process Analytics
In recent years, the concept of business process management (BPM) has been gaining traction in modern enterprises and institutions. Broadly put, the management field aims to provide an encompassing approach in order to align an organization's business processes with the concerns of every involved stakeholder.
Executive Update
RBT Framework Coupled with a Keyword-Driven Test Design Approach
Testing is potentially a risk-based activity. The fact is, one can't test everything equally, and even if one could, it would be too expensive. The risk-based testing (RBT) approach helps to identify risk factors associated with testing. Various RBT models and approaches available today deal with assessing and calculating risks associated with the test scenarios for a system under test. These studies have described risk calculation for test scenarios by considering various factors from both business and technical perspectives.