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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IT-related litigation requires a clear understanding of the contractual obligations in computer-mediated transactions emanating from collaborative commerce. This article outlines the general principles of a legal framework that can be used to understand contractual obligations that would potentially form part of any litigation relating to computer-based (or electronic) transactions.
Call them what you will: iterative, incremental, or evolutionary delivery; spiral development; rapid application development (RAD); prototyping; or any one of the commercially available methodologies for these practices. Many IT departments, in their never-ending search for faster and more foolproof ways of doing development, have welcomed these new approaches as the answer to their project nightmares.
In my experience as a lawyer representing clients involved in disputes over sophisticated IT products and services, I have come to learn that IT personnel are smart, talented, and self-reliant. But dealing with the legal issues presented by a failing project is generally outside the skill set of even the most gifted IT professional or manager. Usually, the best option for a manager working on a project that has taken a turn for the worse is to call a lawyer and get professional help.
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Agile methods (AM) and enterprise architecture (EA) are emerging disciplines for effectively planning and developing computing systems. In practice, they often seem incompatible.