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 December 2005, Cutter Consortium conducted a survey of 140 companies worldwide to evaluate current business intelligence (BI) practices and the degree to which organizations are outsourcing or considering outsourcing their BI systems. This Executive Update is the second in a series that analyzes this survey data to gain a better understanding of corporate disposition toward BI outsourcing.
Executive Update
Sustainable Software Development: Personnel Issues
INTRODUCTION
Suppose that you wanted to build a new kind of software development organization -- one that could produce top-quality, feature-rich products year after year without burning out the engineers or their managers. What are the most important considerations in building an organization capable of sustainable development?
At last Windows Vista (the operating system formerly known as Longhorn) has reached beta, and Microsoft is confident that the client version will enter production by the end of 2006. However, the server (which for some reason is still called Longhorn) will not be generally available until 2007.
Whether they're driven by the need for business-IT alignment, the spread of service-oriented architectures, or other factors, enterprise architecture (EA) programs are clearly proliferating. In this month's Cutter IT Journal, you'll see how Subaru's EA effort transformed a maze of overlapping applications and unsupported technology platforms into a simple, flexible IT environment that keeps pace with changing business needs.
Last week, I had the pleasure of attending the XX Winter Olympics in Torino, Italy. Being from the US state of New Hampshire, I had to root for our local competitor Bode Miller, who's from Franconia. At the Men's Combined event (downhill and slalom), he was in first place after the downhill portion of the race, clocking the fastest speed of the day at a blistering 126.8 Km/hr (79 MPH -- I don't even drive that fast). But in the slalom portion of the race, he missed a gate and was disqualified. This was to be the second of five disappointing appearances for Bode.
INTRODUCTION
Ah yes, the much endorsed, much maligned business case. Before I dive into the business case for visualization, let me share some assumptions regarding business cases that will guide this discussion.