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
Results from our latest survey analyzing corporate data warehousing and BI trends show that fewer companies plan to increase spending on their data warehousing and BI efforts in 2003 than those that indicated they planned to do so just nine months ago.
In my introduction to the March 2002 issue, I commented that project management is a subject with a perplexing profile. There's a lot of agreement about its importance and about the kinds of skills and activities that go into practicing it successfully.
PROJECT MEASUREMENT
Tom DeMarco was clear when he said, "You can't control what you can't measure." 1 The concept of a software metric is widely developed, and it reflects the worldwide industry acknowledgement of this imperative need. To respond effectively to business demands, IT activities must be assessed, estimated, planned, and monitored based on measurement. The "project-oriented" reality of most IT departments and companies places projects as the primary target for measurement.
One of the reasons we get stuck about resolutions is that we're not sure what to resolve. Fortunately, I've made a lot of resolutions and have even kept a few.
