The quantum computing race is already under way. Although still a nebulous concept to many IT professionals and business executives, it’s time to examine its near- and long-term potential by placing it on strategic business and IT roadmaps. The Advisor explores the progress made in quantum computing, as well as the opportunities, disruptive potential, and challenges the technology brings.

What are the steps in creating a successful portfolio management practice? This Advisor explores how to establish governance, conduct a maturity assessment, and take a cyclical approach to operating a practice. It also provides important points to keep in mind regarding each stage of the roadmap.

In Part I of this Advisor series, I argued that data doesn’t “go bad” in the colloquial use of that phrase; rather, it is adulterated by the addition of dubious intent on the part of its collectors and/or users. That intent usually takes the form of reusing or repurposing data already collected to drive a different goal than that for which it was originally gathered. Here in Part II, we look at a couple of examples of these practices.

This Advisor asserts that there is no “right” org chart for depicting an organization’s structure. There are only charts fulfilling different purposes, and you need to treat them within the constraints of that purpose.

Most organizations launch digital transformation initiatives only to watch them die a long, slow, painful, and expensive death. Many leaders mistakenly believe that implementing new technologies will change their culture. In fact, organizational cultures are often quite strong and intransigent. When the culture abhors risk-taking, ambitious company-wide endeavors cannot survive.

In this Advisor, we identify the reasons, motivations, and requirements of an organization aiming to achieve sustainability and how that would be facilitated via an architectural approach.

This collection of articles written by Cutter Senior Consultant Barry O'Reilly follows his journey as he strives to redefine the practice of software architecture as the bridge between complexity science and systems engineering, and reframe the decision-making role of the architect as the careful navigation of uncertainty.

Various AI technologies, including ML, predictive analytics, NLP, and image recognition, are helping to reshape procurement operations. These developments are most apparent in the emergence of AI-powered cloud procurement platforms. This Advisor provides some example use cases of how AI is now utilized to automate and optimize procurement activities.

The connections between culture and performance are complex, reciprocal, and anything but obvious. But you need to care about them. The more you care about performance, the more you need to care about culture.

In this Advisor, the author asserts that March's decision making model, maximization, is based on three foundational lies, starting with the idea of the "rational decision maker."

This Advisor portrays a fictional conversation between the COO of a regional manufacturing company and an enterprise architect, and illustrates how enterprise architecture supports business strategy by monitoring structures, managing the investment portfolio, and ensuring the operating model stays aligned with the business model.

Many cities are now pursuing smart sustainable city strategies with the aim of enhancing their performance; optimizing their infrastructures, processes, and services; and improving residents’ quality of life. Recognizing the potential of digital twins, smart sus­tain­able cities are experimenting with these technology solutions. This Advisor highlights a few ways smart sustainable cities can leverage digital twin technology.

Scrum embodies Agile ways of working and new organizational constructs, but does it consistently deliver the Agile promise of improved performance? Agile Lineout — another metaphor from rugby — is a new approach that uses progressive steps to increase predictability, quality, and delivery efficiency.

Although the concept of a digital twin in automotive is not new, the mass deployment of embedded con­nectivity and the ability to remotely extract critical vehicle data is. As vehicle components and systems evolve from concept and design to manufacture and operation, so does the digital twin.

This Advisor explores the challenges of LC/NC and the potential benefits for businesses, from simply reducing the IT backlog to serving as a POC for digital transformation.

In a recent webinar, Cutter Consortium Senior Consultant Mike Rosen explored the circular economy concept, its broad impact on business and operating models, and the role of architects in facilitating the shift to a circular economy. This Advisor shares the Q&A session that followed. Perhaps Mike’s advice will spark some new ideas on how your organization can participate in the circular economy.

Microsoft buying Nuance Communications — a leader in natural language processing (NLP) and speech-powered solutions — for US $19.7 billion is the most important artificial intelligence (AI)–related acquisition to take place so far this year.

Digital twins have the power to vastly increase the reliability and cost-effectiveness of products, creating an enormous economic impact. However, most businesses lack the dedicated resources to create a simulated product model, verify the model, deploy the model, and analyze the collected information. This article presents a solution that easily integrates across business functions and places digital twins within reach of many companies currently overwhelmed by the challenge.

In this Advisor, we turn our attention to the risk mismanagement of the US’s COVID-19 pandemic vaccination preparations.

Portfolio management in the enterprise is very similar to portfolio management in the financial community — with similar disappointments. In this Advisor, we explore five elements of failure that contribute to these disappointments.

There are many good practices in bridging the maturity gap that are common to all leading EA practices: Determining the type of architectural change required, deciding the required level of EA maturity, defining the right set of areas for change, and creating well-defined maturity descriptions all help make overall improvements in EA maturity. This Advisor provides suggestions to help you build EA maturity that are considered common sense, but are frequently overlooked.

As the technology develops, digital twins could give rise to a new era of predictive medicine by giving clinicians a way to simulate the outcomes of possible interventions and create detailed plans for complex surgeries. This Advisor explores the potential of digital twin technology in the healthcare industry.

Explore the leadership lessons learned by observing four gathered but distant string quartets performing a new 35-minute piece of music collaboratively in various performance settings.

As the fourth installment in the series “Ingredients for Enterprise Agility,” this Advisor explores how a transformation team can create and maintain momentum by mobilizing volunteers, walking the board, applying the pickup sticks model, and creating an evidence board.