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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Agile development is a major force in the world of software development, and more organizations are using it for various projects with increasing success. Agile development has taught the software world the virtue of breaking large software projects down into a number of small, timeboxed iterations.

Barry Boehm recently told us something that we all know but which many of us don't want to believe. The prominent University of Southern California professor stated that every software project has a lower bound on its development time.

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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.

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In this Executive Report, Ken Orr discusses the major sets of options currently available to business and IT planners today concerning their current legacy systems: leave them alone, replace them with COTS, replace them with open source applications and components, or replac

I'm a bit of an armchair climber and mountaineer. I don't have much talent or experience, but I'm fascinated by the trials and travails of climbing high mountains like Everest, Annapurna, and others that rise to over 8,000 meters above sea level.

A few years ago, I wrote about "Applistructure" as the latest trend to combine enterprise infrastructure with enterprise business applications. This was all the buzz at the time. A recent Google search for the term reveals numerous articles from late 2005 by analysts and pundits predicting great things. Then ... nothing. No references for 2006 nor 2007.