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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Insight

Do not multiply entities beyond necessity.

-- William of Occam

I received a lot of feedback from my 28 November 2007 Advisor, "Governance from Day Three" -- most of it positive. It seems that governance is generally thought of as a dirty word. I also got some differing views, however, many with some valid points.

Here's an interesting finding from a recent Cutter Consortium survey: approximately 20% of end-user organizations with business performance management initiatives are using so-called Web 2.0 technologies to support their performance management efforts.

During my years as an application architect, I always appreciated good project management. In fact, I tried my own hand at being a project manager but fortunately had the sense to recognize quickly that I wasn't very good at it.

Actuate Corporation has launched a new on-demand business performance management service. "Actuate OnPerformance," as the software-as-a-service (SaaS) offering is called, is based on the Performancesoft Suite, which Actuate acquired when it bought Performancesoft Inc.

Abstract

In industries other than IT, an architect's skills and experience are often packaged and reused across multiple projects without the architect necessarily being involved.

In many industries, products and services fall into family groups. For example, in the automotive industry, automobiles, trucks, and buses each fall into a different family. Of course, some vehicles fall between an automobile and a truck. However, this does not affect the existence of identifiable kinds of products.

Given the complex and global nature of today's business world, organizations are looking for ways to deal with realities and turn them into advantages. As a result, a focus on innovation has become a key strategic differentiator, resulting in competitive, sustainable advantage and maximized stakeholder value.