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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This survey examined the business uses of real-time data and organizations' readiness to exploit real-time digital data streams. More than half (67%) of the 117 responding organizations are headquartered or based in Europe, with 19% in North America, 6% in the Middle East, 5% in Asia/Australia/Pacific, and the remainder elsewhere in the world.
Best practices are prescriptive, and Agile development opposes prescription. So, in this sense, there are no Agile best practices. Managers faced with a need to impose new processes are always in search of guidance, however, and need to know that they are doing what they have set out to do -- or at least are on track to do so. Guidance, whether it is called "best practices," "good things to do," or "useful approaches," is still necessary.
In this issue, we revisit the topic of real-time data. First, we have a fresh set of data, made more useful by the fact that we can compare it historically to the previous survey. Second, we have a solid "bird's eye" view of the DDS space through the high-level conceptual framework articulated by Federico and Gabe. And, third, we have a very pragmatic "nuts and bolts" view of the same space from Manjunath.
In a 2012 Cutter IT Journal article entitled "Business Capability Architecture Is the Tie that Binds All," Andrew Guitarte discussed how to use business capabilities to improve efforts related to business strategy, enterprise change, and project portfolio prioritization. We concur that strategy, enterprise change, and portfolio management are managed more effectively using business architecture, and agree that capabilities are a component of business architecture.