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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Nicholas Carr's article, "IT Doesn't Matter," in the May 2003 issue of the Harvard Business Review, continues to generate a lot of heated discussion because of its thesis, which basically proposes that information technology is becoming so commonplace that it really doesn't offer companies much strategic advantage. Carr covered a number of issues associated with the commoditization of IT, but the following quote gives a pretty good idea of where he is coming from:
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While the world has been in the economic doldrums and most IT companies have been reporting lousy earnings, IBM Software Division has been buying and innovating. It has been interesting to watch IBM execute this strategy, drawing on its deep cash reserves, while others simply hunker down and wait for the wind to fill their sails again.