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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Selecting tablets for enterprise computing currently comes down to three choices: the Apple iPad, Android-based devices from various vendors, and Research In Motion's BlackBerry Playbook.

A recent search on Amazon.com using the keyword "team" yielded over 170,000 hits. Obviously, there is a lot of interest in and a lot being said about teams.

Business intelligence is nothing new to the business and IT worlds, but it is hardly business as usual when it comes to leveraging BI in the growing field of social media-oriented business.

A recent search on Amazon.com using the keyword "team" yielded over 170,000 hits. Obviously, there is a lot of interest in and a lot being said about teams. And if you browse the titles of the books that are available, you will see that there are numerous perspectives on teams; for example, how to build team morale, how to develop high-performance teams, how to motivate teams, how to manage distributed teams, and so on.

With more than 2,000 collaboration vendors offering solutions, is it hard to determine which is the best one for your organization? Or is that the wrong question? Successful collaboration is more about fitting a tool, process, and team rather than just looking at a particular technology.

B&EA Executive Update Vol. 15 No. 3

Agile increases productivity. This is what you hear in at least every second talk on agile and some protagonists even claim an increase in productivity of 600%. Whether or not you believe in these numbers is your choice (I don't).

In my last Advisor ("Put Big Data in Perspective -- Part I"), I discussed the basics of Big Data, what it is, where it comes from, what's it goo