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Your Guide to Understanding the Evolution, Power, and Potential of Online Social Networks: Part I

In this Executive Report we address these questions and explore what social networks mean to you and your enterprise. Specifically, we begin by examining the dark side of social networks, including dangers, risks, and privacy and security issues. We then look at the future of social networks, identifying and discussing several yet-to-be explored trends and your potential opportunities. We conclude by looking at the impact social networks have on the business and what IT can do to take advantage of its potential.
August 31, 2007 | Authored By: San Murugesan

Six Strategies for Reducing Technical Debt

What strategies do you apply to modernizing a product code base? What results do you get with those strategies? This Advisor takes a retrospective look at a past project, both to describe the strategies my colleagues and I used to rearchitect the product and to validate the effectiveness of those strategies with two technical debt assessments via Cutter's Technical Debt Assessment and Valuation practice. 
April 7, 2016 | Authored By: John Heintz

Alleviating Algorithmic Bias in AI-Powered HR & Workforce Management Systems

Neural networks and other ML model development typically use large amounts of data for training and testing purposes. Because much of this data is historical, there is the risk that the AI models could learn existing prejudices pertaining to gender, race, age, sexual orientation, and other biases. This Advisor explores how the Data & Trust Alliance consortium created an initiative to help end-user organizations evaluate vendors offering AI-based solutions according to their ability to detect, mitigate, and monitor algorithmic bias over the lifecycle of their products.
December 14, 2021 | Authored By: Curt Hall

Fire Alarm in Financial Services: The Regulatory Landscape for Cloud and Outsourcing

In this Executive Update, the first of three related articles, we examine financial services as an example of a highly regulated industry and outline the regulatory landscape that creates points of tension for cloud adoption. We also incorporate perspectives from a differentiated range of stakeholders, including lawyers, technologists, compliance executives, and outsourcing managers.
December 20, 2016 | Authored By: Leslie Willcocks, Daniel Gozman

When Projects Bump into Reality

  When teaching seminars and workshops on project management, I typically start with the classic five project management process groups diagram, then I add a big fat circle (see Figure 1).
March 31, 2010 | Authored By: Jo Ellen Moore

Can We Measure Agile Performance with an Evolving Scope? An EVM Framework (Executive Summary)

Can a method like EVM, developed to control projects with well-defined objectives, be applied to control product development initiatives that evolve continuously toward a “moving target”? In an Agile environment, we are faced with the dynamic evolution of a finite boundary of integrated scope, cost, time, and resources; this finiteness — essential for business management and decisions — is the cradle for project management techniques, tools, methods, and frameworks. The EVM method was first developed to help with managing complex R&D projects mostly characterized by an unstable, volatile, and evolving scope. It is therefore no surprise that EVM applies to Agile projects.
May 22, 2017 | Authored By: Alexandre Rodrigues

Social Networks in the Enterprise: Are You Part of the Herd?

Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, and other social networks are very hot right now; however, most of the existing research has been done on these social networks with an eye toward consumer-oriented usage. Corresponding research from the enterprise side is lacking.
April 30, 2009 | Authored By: David Coleman

Blockchain Technologies & Environmental Sustainability — Opening Statement

In this issue of Amplify, we delve into the intricate connections between blockchain technologies and sustainability, highlighting how transparency, traceability, and decentralization can empower individuals, organizations, and governments to address pressing sustainability issues, from energy grids and sustainable forestry to agri-food ecosystems and regenerative finance. As we explore this dynamic development, it becomes evident that blockchain is not merely a technological innovation: it can serve as a catalyst for transformative change that aligns with the global imperative to create a more sustainable and equitable world.
September 27, 2023 | Authored By: Horst Treiblmaier

What Do Business Architects Do? Five FAQs

There is a common set of questions burning in peoples’ minds when they think about the business architect role, whether they are new to the discipline or experienced but seeking to compare approaches. In this Advisor, we address these important questions based on practical experience and best practices employed by a wide range of industries, organizations, and geographies.
February 8, 2017 | Authored By: Whynde Kuehn

Building an Effective E-Project Team

Better, faster, cheaper -- the siren song of software development. Each new era of information technology belts out a chorus or two. The e-business era is no exception.
December 31, 2000 | Authored By: Chris Pickering
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