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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In Part I of this two-part Executive Update series on business architecture and sustainability, we provide an overview of the circular economy and the strategic challenges it presents and demonstrate how business architecture provides the means for a formal, robust transition to the circular economy.
This edition of The Cutter Edge explores how data demands a deep understanding of the trade-off between ethical business behaviors and unrestrained competition, three specific sources of organizational stress and the strategies for alleviating this stress, and more.
According to findings from Cutter Consortium’s recent survey on intelligent process automation (IPA) in the enterprise, a fairly high amount of interest exists among end-user organizations for using cognitive systems in their IPA efforts, with approximately one-third indicating they would like to do so. In this Advisor, we take a closer look at cognitive computing systems and how their use can support organizations' process automation efforts.
In Part VII of this Executive Update series on IPA in the enterprise, we examine survey findings pertaining to how organizations view the success of their IPA efforts so far and whether they believe the technology will eventually live up to expectations.
Tech accessibility is best served when there is inclusive design for people with disabilities (PWD) that starts from the design/user research phase and carries through the software development stage to the marketing cycle. When accessibility has not been embedded in the DevOps process, it shows.
Software systems are different. We know this because we make a mess of them all the time. If airplanes and flights had the same failure rates as software, there would be no aviation industry. Why they are different isn’t a question many have taken the time to ask. The answer to this lies first in understanding uncertainty.
Portfolio management is a valuable capability for the execution of corporate strategy. However, results often fail to meet expectations. But overcoming overoptimistic expectations and poor execution is less challenging with a realistic roadmap and framework. To be truly effective, portfolio management should be an extension and execution of corporate strategy, as is explored in this Advisor.
Some people might argue that their data architecture team has defined their data. This may be true, but even in the best of cases, existing data definitions rarely reflect the breadth, clarity, and rationalized business perspectives required to fully represent information as it is viewed by the business as a whole. But there is a discipline that if applied properly can help.