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
Fundamental progress has to do with the reinterpretation of basic ideas.
-- Alfred North Whitehead
Knowledge management (KM) has attracted considerable attention in recent years. Nonetheless, there are few widely shared definitions of the term itself, much less commonality on how to apply it in business. While this may be true, advances have been made in recent years to help define the field in ways that are both insightful and relevant to the needs of business.
Many companies are trying to create a greater sense of global integration through sharing knowledge. This article describes Shell's early experience developing global communities of practice. These communities link technical staff across globally distributed operations, providing a forum for scientists and engineers to share experiences and help each other.
What do portals, search engines, personnel profilers, and document management systems have in common?
There are at least four answers to this question:
Executive Summary
THE END OF THE BEGINNING
In 1942, after the Allies had achieved a decisive defeat of Germany's Rommel in the North African desert, Winston Churchill, then prime minister of England, addressed Parliament. "This is not the end," he said.
A distributed software development (DSD) strategy is only suitable for very large projects: true or false? In DSD projects, you cannot mix software development with hardware development: true or false? Companies cannot apply DSD to all of their projects -- it is just too difficult to manage: true or false?