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 by Steve Andriole and Vince Schiavone focuses on the roles that social media can play in the execution of your business strategies and the improvement of your business processes and models. The report describes a process that should lead to the optimization of social media in your company.

Social media is everywhere, all the time. It's about participation -- by everyone. It's also fueled by consumerization, where technology innovation and adoption are driven by requirements and preferences that originate with consumers (and consumer vendors) rather than cubicle-constrained professionals and their corporate technology providers.

One common belief in the industry is that the capability of delivering things quickly is a key competitive advantage. I would like to revisit the way this belief is often used in practice and propose a better way to use it.

It appears that the use of text analysis and text mining software by end-user organizations has increased, as approximately one-quarter of organizations surveyed indicate that they are now analyzing text/unstructured data in some capacity to support their BI efforts.

Wikipedia tells us about enterprise architecture:

The resignation of Intrigue's CTO six weeks before v1.0 of its JavaJoe product was scheduled to ship caused quite a few eyebrows to be raised. 1 While the resigning CTO indicated he was leaving to pursue an opportunity he could not afford to miss, the timing of his resignation gave rise to concerns about the readiness (or lack of it) of JavaJoe to be released as an enterprise application.

Cutter Consortium was called into a software organization by its venture capital firm to conduct a Technical Debt Assessment and Valuation. The code to be evaluated had been acquired two years prior. Until the organization built the capability to develop the code in its US headquarters, the development had continued through an outsourcing company in another country. The assessment came just as the company was about to release ~200K lines of Java code.