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 Executive Report summarizes and explains the authors' work in implementing agile software development practices in the large and complex Cisco Voice Technology Group (VTG). The chosen solutions as well as the efforts required to implement them are discussed.
The accompanying Executive Report, aimed at both leadership teams of organizations and members of product delivery teams, details our experience changing the Cisco Voice Technology Group (VTG) waterfall culture to an iterative and incremental delivery system. In the report, we discuss how we went about initiating the change, what went well, and what we won't do again.
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Devops: What, Why?
Developing software in a way that enables reliable, repeatable deployments should not be a radical idea. Like many named concepts, devops makes formal the practices of many successful teams. This is also true of software development practices for agile and lean, and devops shares some values with agile -- especially a focus on delivering value to the business.
In a 2010 Executive Update, I talked about the transition from a document-centric approach to knowledge management (KM) -- with its emphasis on content management systems (CMSs) and search engines -- to "social KM," in which, to quote the title I gave that Update: "It's not (just) what you know; it's who you know." 1