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
When searching for inspiration, I turn to Charlie Parker.
Contrary to what you may have heard, organizations around the world are applying agile and CMMI together, and some are doing it effectively. Sadly, some are not as successful as they would like to be. In this article, I start by sharing some important results from several surveys that I've run over the years that explore how people are applying agile and CMMI in practice.
I regularly receive emails like this from procurement departments of large companies or public authorities: "We ask you to offer your proposal for the development of system XYZ that is specified in the 700 pages attached. Please provide your proposal by Friday next week, 0:00 UTC." I have stopped answering these requests.
There has been a lot of discussion surrounding what's better for mobile development: building native apps designed to run specifically on select mobile platforms and OSs (e.g., Apple iOS, Android-based devices, BlackBerry, Windows 8) or using dynamic Web-based technologies (e.g., HTML5, JavaScript, mobile Web frameworks) to bu
