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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Many are calling the advent of apps a revolution, as important as the arrival of the personal computer. How ironic that we have started to call such app-running devices as smartphones and tablets, the post-PC devices. Given today's heightened awareness and revolutionary swing of this topic, of course the CBR crew had to focus on it. In this issue, we are benchmarking the use of apps to understand the transition from the PC to the post-PC era.
Of the more than 4 billion mobile phones in use across the world, around 27% are smartphones, phones built on a mobile computing platform with advanced computing ability and connectivity.
While smartphones have become ubiquitous and mobile consumers have downloaded more than 28 billion apps from Apple's App Store and Google's Android Market,1 many businesses around the globe are lagging behind -- slow to adopt the use of smartphones and even slower still to embrace a fully integrated mobile strategy. Considering that consumers are downloading and using mobile applications that equate to four for every person on the planet, businesses must radically transform their idea of customers and the marketplace or risk strategic catastrophe.
As most successful business managers will tell you, moving forward with the times is the only way to avoid falling behind them. The next big thing on the horizon all too quickly becomes the current big thing for which you need to have a strategic plan in place by the time it really rolls around.
SURVEY DEMOGRAPHICS
This survey investigated organizations' use, development, and implementation of smartphone apps. Forty percent of the 79 respondents are from Asia/Australia/Pacific, 29% from North America, and 24% from Europe, with the remainder from Africa, the Middle East, and South America.
In my previous Advisor we described enterprise architecture (EA) and portfolio management (PM) ("Putting Enterprise Architecture and Portfolio Management Together, Part I").