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
As 2004 winds down, I want to comment one more time on a trend that I predict will grow in the year ahead and throughout the rest of this decade. I expect that large companies will become better at dividing business processes into two groups and maintaining those that are really vital while outsourcing those that are essentially "commodity processes."
Sarbanes-Oxley wasn't a very well thought-out law. It was written in response to corporate corruption and seeks to solve a problem with a rather complicated system that it imposes on every business operating in the US. The original deadlines for the act were so unrealistic that they were extended and are only now beginning to come due.