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
If we lived in a perfect Internet world, an e-commerce1 site would meet the needs of its customers in terms of providing an effective user interface, meaningful information, easy navigation, fast performance, high reliability, and ongoing security.
Walt Kelly, creator of the Pogo comic strip, used this line about the real nature of many problems long before the Internet and the World Wide Web were invented. However, nowhere is it as true as when a group of otherwise sane human beings attempt their first large e-business project. Herein is a list of some of the Worst Practices (with a capital W) for putting your brainchild on the Web.
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Executive Report
Ensuring IT Is E-Business Ready
In the minds of some, the debate still rages: is e-business merely another overblown trend, or is it (as many analysts claim) a monumental change on the order of the industrial revolution? If one focuses strictly on technology, the first argument has some merit. After all, how many technological "revolutions" have passed through IT organizations over the past 30 years? The Internet may be here to stay, but there will always be another new technology to capture the minds of IT professionals.
Executive Summary
Ensuring IT Is E-Business Ready
The accompanying Executive Report discusses the important topic of business-IT alignment in the e-business realm. It examines the Internet's unsurpassed ability to exchange information as well as its deconstructive effect on business as we know it. The Executive Report also explores how these same forces affect IT organizations and the paths by which IT can reconstruct itself.