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
One of my pet peeves is the limited coverage of object database management systems (ODBMS) in the industry weeklies. Think back. How many times over the past six months have you seen a news report highlighting ODBMS? People frequently ask me why nothing is happening with ODBMS, since they see no news.
Everyone has read about Charles Schwab's Java/CORBA-based Internet trading system and Dell's COM-NT-based system for ordering customized PCs via the Web. The question is: how widespread is this trend and how rapidly it is growing?
A few weeks ago, a report appeared suggesting that the government had decided to push in the direction of breaking Microsoft into product-oriented companies. Obviously, a lot of discussion and debate will occur before any intention is realized and this may never happen, but it is apparently the primary option being considered at the moment.
Requirements management (RM) is simple in principle but difficult in practice. The Software Engineering Institute's (SEI) Capability Maturity Model (CMM) spells out RM in basic terms. RM means to:
- Establish a common understanding of the requirements with the customer
- Document that understanding
- Make changes in an organized manner
How could anything be simpler?
"IT'S NOT EASY TO CREATE AN AOL" 20 January 2000 by Ed Yourdon
Jim Highsmith, one of the members of the Cutter Technology Council has made a number of "mega-trend" predictions about e-business; one of them is that e-business initiatives will cause significant (and largely un
In a former life, I used to spend a lot of time developing training programs for companies. Initially I believed that the instructional designer should be someone different from the presenter. Instructional designers worried about sequencing and learning outcomes, while presenters delivered a performance. People I knew argued about how to train new instructional designers. Should you hire someone with a background in instructional design and then let him or her learn a subject matter?
The Object Management Group (OMG) has scheduled a workshop on Enterprise Application Integration (EAI) for 7-9 February 2000, in Orlando, Florida, and I think it's a meeting that serious enterprise architects ought to consider attending.
In the first four articles in this series, I identified a maturity model for Internet technology adoption (below). This article focuses on how companies can move from Level 3 to Level 4.