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.
Insight
I must first confess. I've only skimmed the nearly 400 pages of the PMBOK Guide, and I'm not a PMI-certified PMP.1 If I decided to sit for the certification exam, I'm not entirely confident that I would pass.
This week, we're taking a look back at the five most read articles in Cutter's Enterprise Architecture practice over this past year. Each article offers unique insight into the challenges of creating and deploying a successful enterprise architecture. Look for these lists from each of our nine practice areas for a compilation of Cutter's 45 most intriguing articles of the year.
This week, we're taking a look back at the five most intriguing articles published in Cutter's Business Intelligence practice over this past year. As you might imagine, it was no small task to cull the list and pare it down to just five articles. Look for these lists from each of our nine practice areas for a compilation of Cutter's 45 most intriguing articles of the year.
Executive Update
Size and Structure of the EA Department
Enterprise architecture (EA) managers often wonder about the best way to organize the EA department, but before addressing that issue, we first must answer the question, "How many architects do we need in the first place?" Of course, there is a difference between needing them and getting the budget for them.
Last week, while in a discussion about architecture, someone in the group said, "We don't really have architecture, we're not big enough to justify the cost." Unfortunately, this is a common misconception about the size of a company and the value of architecture. Actually, it is often smaller companies that can demonstrate the benefits most quickly.
