It pays to really assess your current marketplace situation and learn from disruptors in your own or adjacent marketplaces. Enterprise architecture (EA) is an asset that you can use to counter the threat of disruptors. The three generically applicable scenarios we introduce in this Advisor may help you choose the right pattern for your EA, depending on the business model of the disruptor, your choice of counter-strategy, and your current EA maturity.

Participants in partnering enterprises can evaluate their Organizational Agility maturity using the Organizational Agility Maturity Rubric. The characteristics of Organizational Agility presented in this rubric can emerge and evolve through the sustained practice of key techniques by all participants.

The most exciting development coming out of the recent consumer electronics show CES 2018 is Kodak's announcement that it plans to develop a blockchain-based photographic rights and royalties management platform (KODAKOne) and accompanying cryptocurrency (KODAKCoin). The goal is to enable photographers and other agencies to take more control over how images are commercially managed and licensed.

Shadow IT exists in your company. Some form of DevOps is being implemented, and somewhere online tools and the public cloud are being used without your approval. Shadow IT can create many risks and bad economic management of IT resources. You can choose to go to war and forbid the use of the new methodologies and tools or learn how to leverage them. This Advisor advocates for the latter.

Modern software systems are routinely very complex, comprising millions of lines of code with many thousands of dependencies. Moreover, software engineer availability, workloads, and turnover compound the problem of keeping track of the complexities of systems. In this Advisor, we examine the benefits of contextual software analysis for mitigating business risk.

External phenomena have transformed competitive advantage from sustainable to transient. Organizations must learn how to succeed and survive in this new business environment, an environment that has forever changed due to digital technologies.

The notion of architecting for flexibility so that enterprises can change is not new. But what about disruptive change? And why does disruptive change matter? Why now?

In this Advisor, the authors demonstrate their analytical approach with a direct and practical example of using Twitter data in real time to understand the sentiments (positive or negative) of trade show participants and to gain insights from them.

Agility is about being adaptable to changing environment conditions, delivering or acting swiftly to fulfill customer needs, and in turn becoming a successful and sought-after organization. Being connected to the fundamentals of agility and tracking the transformation progress based on the Agile principles described in this Advisor helps organizations to be on track toward transformation progress and stay connected to the big picture.

I suspect that of all things, big data will address the human mind last. For whatever reason, people approach the science of the mind differently than they approach the science of the body.

The constants across all the customer experience winners include listening, communication, honesty, responsiveness, and innovation. Follow these seven steps to make your customers happy.

The dynamic nature of the business capability architecture (BCA) aptly lends itself to modeling the new paradigm of big data analysis.

The commercialization of cognitive systems is impacting both the consumer and enterprise worlds; in effect changing the way people interact with computers along with the methods for data analysis. In short, with the ability to ingest, analyze, and summarize massive data sets and facilitate self-service analytics, intelligent decision support, and smart advisory systems via the application of various artificial intelligence (AI) technologies — including natural language processing (NLP), machine learning (ML), and other intelligent reasoning capabilities — cognitive computing is starting to transform information-intensive industries.

As has been our tradition for the last several years, we've compiled the five most intriguing articles published by the Business Technology & Digital Transformation Strategies practice this year for today's Advisor.

Here are the Agile Product Management & Software Engineering Excellence articles that garnered the most feedback from Cutter Members and clients in 2017. Look for these lists from each of our four practice areas, and rediscover Cutter's most intriguing articles of the year!

Here are the Business & Enterprise Architecture articles that garnered the most feedback from Cutter Members and clients in 2017. Look for these lists from each of our four practice areas, and rediscover Cutter's most intriguing articles of the year!

As has been our tradition for the last several years, we've compiled the five most intriguing articles published by the Cutter Business Technology Journal this year for today's Advisor. How did we come up with this list? We chose the articles that garnered the most feedback from Cutter Members and clients and those that created controversy among Cutter Senior Consultants and Fellows.

As has been our tradition for the last several years, we've compiled the five most intriguing articles published by the Data Analytics & Digital Technologies practice this year for today's Advisor. How did we come up with this list? We chose the articles that garnered the most feedback from Cutter Members and clients and those that created controversy among Cutter Senior Consultants and Fellows.

The change to an Agile mode of operation demands a manager who is able to act as a leader with an emphasis on inspiration, motivation, learning, and giving responsibility and trust.

Cloud has paved the way for the rapid growth of the IoT, but with such growth, businesses need faster and more efficient solutions than ever, since information that is as new as one day old can lose value. Compa­nies are turning to fog computing for higher efficiency, better security, faster decision-making processes, and lowered operating costs.

How can analytics and their accompanying technologies help make sense out of the immensity of big data? What are the challenges and risks associated with such initiatives? This issue of Cutter Business Technology Journal explores various angles to big data with a focus on the trends in predictive analytics, machine learning, the Internet of Things, and the cloud.

A Service Dominant Architecture operationalizes concepts from service science in an architectural blueprint for the implementation of a service platform. Within two-speed IT, a service platform can be implemented on top of a legacy infrastructure, adding important complementary capabilities to legacy IT.

Mobile, wearable devices support noninvasive, biometric monitoring. They are generating a wealth of data detailing important indicators of the user’s health, ranging from heart rate, respiration, and temperature to perspiration, gait, blood sugar levels, balance, grip, and more. Incorporation of data from sensor-enabled devices with other health and medical information adds a real-time capability to healthcare that has been lacking in all but the more complex medical device monitoring applications to date.

In this Advisor, we will look at some of the proactive and reactive recommendations for dealing with vendor-created technical debt.

Having a market structure that supports and encourages diversification of risks is key to avoiding systemic risks not only to national economies, but to the global economy as well.