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
Every so often, I'm reminded that I started writing about computing in the early 1980s and wrote primarily about artificial intelligence through most of that decade. Usually I think of it because I read of some new achievement by an AI system. In this case, I noticed that the current world champion chess master, Vladimir Kramnik, just achieved a draw with Deep Fritz, the current reigning chess program.
Executive Report
Getting the Most Out of Your IT Application and Project Investments
"Getting more from less" is an oft-repeated cliche, especially in hard economic times. As most IT professionals can attest, pressure on IT costs is stronger than ever, yet executives still expect higher performance. These pressures go beyond wringing more performance from IT staff, extending to the projects and assets managed by the IT organization.
Executive Summary
Getting the Most Out of Your IT Application and Project Investments
In tough economic times, "getting more from less" is a common refrain. For IT organizations, the pressure on costs is enormous, yet high performance is still expected. After wringing performance gains from IT staff, IT managers are seeking to increase business value by actively managing their application and project portfolios.
A BRIEF OVERVIEW
During the past two to three years, both the IT and business communities have been seriously discussing the possibility that Web services may become the next big thing.
Although corporate America is still reeling from the excessive IT spending of the late 1990s, numerous disparate, standalone systems still abound in many organizations as a painful reminder to the myopic and reactive approach to enterprise computing. Many systems acquired (or built) with the intent of addressing only one business problem are now strong candidates for abandonment.