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
In Part I of this two-part Executive Update series (Vol.
One of the most innovative practices of agile development is a contribution from extreme programming: test-driven development (TDD). Briefly, TDD is the art of building a software system along a growing set of automated developer tests, usually unit tests. This is comprised of a disciplined series of tiny steps to add new functionality:
When I teach architecture courses, one of the things that I try to convey to the class is the different levels of complexity/interconnectedness/theory that exist within architecture. It is not the goal of the course to make people experts at meta-models, but it is important for an architect to understand that architecture is founded on architecture of its own.
Advisor
BPM: Where Are We?
A friend recently told me that while he understands the principles of agile logically, he is unable to explain it to others. So he asked me to come up with a nontechnical/business metaphor to help him better understand what agile really means. After some thinking, I asked if he remembered playing the game of "gossip" around a campfire as a kid.
Executive Report
Enterprise Architecture as a Discipline for Strategy Execution
This Executive Report by Tanaia Parker introduces the Strategic Enterprise Architecture FrameworkSM (SEAFSM) as an approach to address the strategy-execution dilemma.