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 my last Advisor (see "Summer Reading: Blink, Mirror Neurons, Antonio Damasio, David Gelernter, and Real Intelligence," 5 July 2007), I talked about Malcolm Gladwell's book Blink and how it got me thinking about how experts often know something is wrong in an instant, like when a big project is probably
If you're heard of UML, then you've probably heard comments that it is big, unruly, and complicated, and that things are even worse with UML 2.0. Although I don't necessarily agree with the sentiment, I can understand where it's coming from. UML is a general-purpose modeling language, directed at IT systems. Well, IT systems are a big topic area.
I work with a lot of database and data warehouse practitioners who have a hard time seeing how agile software development practices can be adapted to the complexities of data-centric systems integration and development. Large data volumes, integration of commercial software, disparate systems integration, and so on, make this adaptation a challenging one.
Since the term "Web 2.0" started appearing, the key questions that seem to keep coming back are: What does it mean? What is the relevance to the enterprise? Should we fear it?
As I recently helped update my company's knowledge management strategy (our business vitally depends on the effective transfer of knowledge from experts to novices, but then, what business doesn't?), I realized that leveraging Web 2.0 in the enterprise meant relinquishing traditional control mechanisms over the editing and publishing of corporate knowledge.
