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
I believe strongly that it is of utmost importance for a project team to have a thorough, complete project plan before deliverables are created. But time and again, I watch even experienced project managers eager to "make a mark" jump into deliverable-based work before a workplan, timeline, and estimate is developed and agreed to.
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IT managers know that developing good software is hard. It is even harder to coordinate business requirements and software development. As companies begin to transition from more conventional ways of architecting applications to distributed, component-based designs, this process is likely to become even harder.
Executive Update
Implementing Distributed Computing Architecture
Q: I understand that you're working on a project implementing a distributed computing architecture at a major utility.
Yes, I'm currently the chief architect on a project for a large utility in the Midwest. It's the software to implement electrical deregulation.
Q: What's the reason for all of the mergers and acquisitions in the data warehousing field?
In many cases, vendors are acquiring other companies to add new technology to their product line. Most of the vendors are trying to develop more complete data warehouse suites. This is mirroring a trend in the industry -- they're all moving away from offering point solutions.