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
Agile developers recognize that documentation is an intrinsic part of any system, the creation and maintenance of which is a "necessary evil" to some and an enjoyable task for others -- an aspect of software development that can be made agile when you choose to do so.
Over the past 10 years, the word "methodology" has become associated with ponderous, heavyweight, rigorous, process-, and documentation- centric processes for delivering software. While this has become the perception, a methodology can -- and should -- be much simpler.
A reader recently asked me to comment on the application of data warehousing and business intelligence (BI) in business-to-business (B2B) e-commerce. Therefore, I've decided to make this the topic of this week's Advisor.
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