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.

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Most companies that adopt Internet technology do so without a long-term goal. It's a great adventure that starts with "we've got to have an Internet site, even though we don't exactly know what we'll do with it after it's up." Although there are thousands of ISPs and probably tens of thousands of Web designers capable of building a corporate site for you, few (if any) are capable of advising you on the strategic alignment of Internet initiatives with corporate goals and IT directions.

How do you identify the technologies most likely to keep your company growing and profitable? The explosion in technology has changed the way you buy and apply technology, and has forever changed expectations about how technology can influence your connectivity to customers, suppliers, and employees.

Software process in the 21st century will best be described by two words: just enough. People will want just enough knowledge; people will use just enough process; and they will want this just in time.

Silver bullets and wooden stakes are time-tested components for dealing with vampires and werewolves. Of course, you have to remember which component is to be applied to which monster. Unfortunately, you also have to be at pretty close range to use these components. Use the wrong one, and you are unlikely to have a second chance.

Volume IX, No. 9; September 1999
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