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
In my last Advisor (see "Firmitas, Utilitas, Venustas"), I introduced some of the ideas presented by EA Conference Chair Chris Potts in his keynote at the IRM Enterprise Architecture Conference, "High Im
Many projects concentrate their efforts on implementing technology used to support the business needs (replace System X with System Y) or deliver new functionality. In meetings, the topic of conversation is usually about which application to purchase and which vendor to choose. Those are important issues, but equally important considerations are how your company will use the information to conduct business, the readiness of existing data, and how you can adapt the data to fulfill the requirements of the new system.
It is time to turn our thinking about IT development's role in change on its head. Instead of IT being the driver and necessary means for change, it should be relegated to last in the order of things. The first step is study, which changes management's perception of the problem(s). The second step is to improve the service design so that it works for customers. The third and final step is to pull in IT development to provide the means to run the service in the new way.
Here, we examine techniques used by EA teams to support fifth-generation EA.
"The Agile and Lean movements clearly have a lot of life left in them. My expectation is that we’ll spend the next decade or more adopting disciplined Agile strategies to enable us to solve more complex problems and make possible a truly Agile enterprise."
-- Scott W. Ambler, Guest Editor