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
As enterprise architects, we often face tasks aligning business and IT. One approach to this alignment is characterized by the Parker-Benson Square Wheel. It tells us that there are two sides to this equation. IT aligns technology with the business by responding to changes in business strategy and operations. This is the traditional role of IT.
A large amount of information is available describing the potential benefits of SOA as well as the best practices, architectural guidelines, and design patterns to achieve them. However, putting SOA to the test in a real-world project always provides the most valuable insights. The accompanying Executive Report discusses a case study based on a project that was conducted for one of the world's leading chauffeured services companies.
Abstract
Many people are aware of collective intelligence (CI) and the exciting prospects associated with it; however, fully understanding the complexity and underlying dynamics that shape CI takes quite a bit of reading and research.
Only a few centuries ago -- a small fragment of time in the history of humanity -- the printing process dramatically changed the way knowledge was recorded and exchanged, facilitating the spread of technological progress.
