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
It's been approximately five months since the first anthrax attacks took place in the US. Although the attacks ceased as abruptly as they appeared, the healthcare and emergency response systems in this country have been scrambling to implement new technologies and procedures to deal with the next bioterrorist attack, should it come.
In a recent survey by Cutter Consortium of some 130 companies around the world, we found that business process analysis and redesign was a pressing issue at most companies. Of the responding companies, 83% are engaged in some kind of business process redesign today, and about the same number indicated that they would be doing more business process redesign in the near future.
Okay, so you've had your fill of ad hoc projects, each one done differently, most of them late, over budget, and plagued with more than their share of bugs. You're convinced that you need to impose order on the chaos and come up with a defined software development process.
The limitations of employee and organizational situational awareness and action space constitute important practical issues in any organization.