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
The late author and media commentator Marshall McCluen famously said, "The map is not the territory." If he were alive today, he might be saying, "The satellite photograph (or Google Maps/Earth) is not the territory!" But if you put these together, you are getting pretty close to being the virtual reality of the territory.
When a new service-oriented architecture (SOA) or enterprise architecture (EA) book hits the shelves, I usually check it out, and when it looks interesting enough, I get a copy. The book Business Rules Management and SOA: A Pattern Language by Ian Graham particularly intrigued me.
In 2006, I discussed corporate adoption trends regarding the use of open source BI tools, open source operating systems, and open source databases for data warehousing and BI applications (see my BI Executive Updates "BI for 'Free':Open Source BI Tools Adoption Trends," "Corporate Attitu
Executive Report
Achieving Enterprise Architecture Maturity
Much has been written about enterprise architecture (EA) and service-oriented architecture (SOA). And success with each is dependent on the other.
Executive Summary
Achieving Enterprise Architecture Maturity (Executive Summary)
The accompanying Executive Report discusses the four stages of enterprise architecture (EA) maturity and describes methods used to identify potential standardized processes for evolving to the later stages of EA maturity as well as ways to develop a strategic model from business plans and ways to derive project