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 this article, I examine survey findings on the adoption and use of data mining technology. Findings are based on the February/March 2003 Cutter Consortium survey of 152 respondents, with the responses of software vendors removed, yielding a total of 119 responding organizations. Specifically, I consider the following trends and issues:
Is agile project management and development incompatible with other approaches? Much has been written about agile versus CMM (the Software Engineering Institute's Capability Maturity Model) or agile versus PMBOK (the Project Management Body of Knowledge), but are these approaches, practices, philosophies, and knowledge incompatible?
