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
During a recent class of executive MBA students in which we looked at a bunch of successful and unsuccessful technology implementation projects, someone asked why so many large-scale enterprise software projects fail. Since the class was full of student-executives from over 30 companies, we were able to explore the question with the benefit of multiple, real-world perspectives.
An "approximate calculation" is the dictionary definition of an estimate. Nearly everyone expresses interest in getting better at estimating, but what do they really mean, and is what they mean reasonable? I want to discuss estimation by focusing on several key words: target, estimate, approximation, expectation, and uncertainty.
