AI & ML Technology for Enabling Risk-Based Decision Making
Michael Eiden, Tom Teixeira, Craig Wylie
The COVID-19 outbreak is impacting all businesses globally. It’s impacting staff, contractors, and staffing levels; it’s impacting the supply chain; and it’s impacting processes. Despite companies having crisis management and business continuity plans, current decision-making tools and dashboards are not adequate for dealing with COVID-19-related decision-making given the geographic scale of the disruption. Established risk management methodologies and approaches tend to be static in nature and lead to models that are backward-looking.
AI & ML Technology for Enabling Risk-Based Decision Making
Michael Eiden, Tom Teixeira, Craig Wylie
The COVID-19 outbreak is impacting all businesses globally. It’s impacting staff, contractors, and staffing levels; it’s impacting the supply chain; and it’s impacting processes. Despite companies having crisis management and business continuity plans, current decision-making tools and dashboards are not adequate for dealing with COVID-19-related decision-making given the geographic scale of the disruption. Established risk management methodologies and approaches tend to be static in nature and lead to models that are backward-looking.
Business Architecture: Key Enabler for Strategy Execution Redux
Whynde Kuehn
This Executive Update explores opportunities for strategy execution, the role of business architecture and the resulting benefits, collaboration with other teams, and some steps we can take to move into action.
Business Architecture: Key Enabler for Strategy Execution Redux
Whynde Kuehn
This Executive Update explores opportunities for strategy execution, the role of business architecture and the resulting benefits, collaboration with other teams, and some steps we can take to move into action.
Preparing for the Post-Corona Era: Tips for the Automotive Industry
Andreas Schlosser, Alan Martinovich, Philipp Seidel
The “new normal” for the automotive industry will look very different from that of the last decade. Players — manufacturers, dealers, distributors, OEMs, and the full supply chain — will need to make bold decisions right now to be ready. In this webinar, we divulge the actions carmakers should take now to set themselves up for the new normal and win in the post-corona era.
Disrupting Agile: Is Agile Ready? — An Introduction
Hillel Glazer
The introduction of Agile practices changed how product development was organized, managed, and executed with the objectives of enhancing customer satisfaction, improving customer/market responsiveness and developer morale, and cutting out impediments to delivery. Indeed, “Agile” has been clearly popularized in much of the product development world. But strong and steady signals are emerging that those objectives are not being met. What happened?
Digital Architecture as an Enabler of Digital Transformation
Kaine Ugwu
Unfortunately, most digital transformation initiatives fail not because they lack capabilities or intelligent, talented people but because they lack precise objectives, digital leadership, and an innovative mindset. Goals — such as what the target business outcomes are — must be clearly defined because a digital transformation journey on its own is already a very complicated endeavor. Digital architecture is what simplifies the journey and makes sense of it. It is vital to begin with a clear objective in order to create the right architecture.
Seeking Value Creation? Find Out What Humans Need
Athula Ginige, Marie Fernando
With the dawn of the 21st century, we have begun to observe a more inclusive digital shift in value creation, with the transformation of business as well as societal systems due to an emerging phenomenon: a new computing paradigm that has introduced myriad Web and mobile-based applications aiming to fulfill society’s primary and secondary human needs. Nonetheless, many attempts to develop social computing applications to facilitate value creation have failed. We have created a human needs fulfillment (HNF) model that enables an optimum fulfillment of human needs, resulting in value creation.
Seeking Value Creation? Find Out What Humans Need
Athula Ginige, Marie Fernando
With the dawn of the 21st century, we have begun to observe a more inclusive digital shift in value creation, with the transformation of business as well as societal systems due to an emerging phenomenon: a new computing paradigm that has introduced myriad Web and mobile-based applications aiming to fulfill society’s primary and secondary human needs. Nonetheless, many attempts to develop social computing applications to facilitate value creation have failed. We have created a human needs fulfillment (HNF) model that enables an optimum fulfillment of human needs, resulting in value creation.
Understanding the Value of Data
Richard Veryard
Most of us will have some intuitive criteria for judging what data is valuable. These intuitive criteria may be good enough for simple and familiar operations, but when we start to address more complex and dynamic ones, we need a more systematic method for assigning value to data. In this Executive Update, we look at some of the challenges of putting a monetary or nonmonetary value on your data assets.
Understanding the Value of Data
Richard Veryard
Most of us will have some intuitive criteria for judging what data is valuable. These intuitive criteria may be good enough for simple and familiar operations, but when we start to address more complex and dynamic ones, we need a more systematic method for assigning value to data. In this Executive Update, we look at some of the challenges of putting a monetary or nonmonetary value on your data assets.
Forward-Looking Risk: Enabling the Anti-Fragile Organization in the New Normal
Tom Teixeira, Craig Wylie
In this on-demand recording of part 1 of this webinar series, you'll discover why you need to consider AI and ML approaches to risk management and learn from the case study of a pharma organization that used AI/ML-based risk models to determine exactly when to restart its clinical trials during the Coronavirus pandemic.
Strategy Execution’s Secret Weapon for Business Architecture
Brian Cameron
The job of the IT strategy isn’t to align to the business strategy. It’s to give the business people who create it as many options to change tack as possible. It’s a provider of IT capability in support of strategic business capabilities. Supporting, enabling, and aligning with core business capabilities equals competitive advantage when the business strategy is a good one.
Misunderstanding the Need for “COBOL Programmers”
Andy Maher
Rapid and unprecedented changes to the unemployment laws have created both a tidal wave of transactions that need to be processed, and significant changes to the programmed business processes that execute those transactions. Those business processes are entombed in old COBOL code on old mainframe systems. People are starting to panic about needing COBOL programmers. Yes, but.…
Misunderstanding the Need for “COBOL Programmers”
Andy Maher
Rapid and unprecedented changes to the unemployment laws have created both a tidal wave of transactions that need to be processed, and significant changes to the programmed business processes that execute those transactions. Those business processes are entombed in old COBOL code on old mainframe systems. People are starting to panic about needing COBOL programmers. Yes, but.…
Transitions to Remote Everything with COVID-19
Rich Huebner
In this Advisor, Rich Huebner shares some of his thoughts about how the COVID-19 pandemic is going to fundamentally change the education industry, in particular, and offers some lessons learned for other industries as well.
AI, ML, and Big Data: Functional Groups That Catch the Investor's Eye
William Jolitz, Lynne Greer Jolitz
Artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML), and big data are expected to have a huge impact on how we live and what we choose to do. Most categories involving these technologies focus on specific lifestyle items like shopping, dining, movies, and so forth. But such customer-centric categories lack specificity from the investor’s eye. In this Advisor, we redrew the categories on which AI/ML and big data startups should focus.
Putting It Out There: Building a Model of Public Self-Governance
Mark Greville
Enterprises must move away from the old model of centralized decision making to a model of public self-governance. Away from monarchy and toward democracy, giving teams the knowledge and authority to make decisions in the open.
Autonomous Machines Move to the Fast Lane
Alexander Krug, Philipp Seidel, Thomas Knoblinger
In a broad Arthur D. Little (ADL) study, we interviewed 30+ industry and technology experts along the automotive value chain (i.e., OEMs, suppliers, distributors, and end customers) in Europe, North America, and Asia. This Executive Update highlights the biggest challenges, barriers, and implications for vehicle design and the industry’s business models.
Autonomous Machines Move to the Fast Lane
Alexander Krug, Philipp Seidel, Thomas Knoblinger
In a broad Arthur D. Little (ADL) study, we interviewed 30+ industry and technology experts along the automotive value chain (i.e., OEMs, suppliers, distributors, and end customers) in Europe, North America, and Asia. This Executive Update highlights the biggest challenges, barriers, and implications for vehicle design and the industry’s business models.
CX Management in the Enterprise, Part X: How Do Organizations View Their Efforts?
Curt Hall
In Part X of this Executive Update series on customer experience (CX) management in the enterprise, we examine survey findings pertaining to how organizations view their CX efforts to date.
CX Management in the Enterprise, Part X: How Do Organizations View Their Efforts?
Curt Hall
In Part X of this Executive Update series on customer experience (CX) management in the enterprise, we examine survey findings pertaining to how organizations view their CX efforts to date.
The Cutter Edge: Lessons in Wartime Medicine Decision Making, Managing Risk with AI and ML, EA Virtual Training
Cutter Consortium
in this edition of The Cutter Edge, we explore decision making lessons in wartime medicine, the impact of COVID-19 on the business technology sector, managing risk with AI and machine learning, and more!
Can You Hear Me Now? NL and Speech Solutions for CX and Support
Curt Hall
As a result of the pandemic, we are witnessing increasing interest by organizations for utilizing natural language processing and speech recognition solutions targeted at customer engagement and support — particularly in the form of smartbots, intelligent assistants, conversational computing, and other applications designed to automate customer requests and assist human agents with contact/call center operations. In this Advisor, we examine some of the types of NLP and speech solutions available to organizations and consider some of the issues to keep in mind when it comes to employing such offerings.
When Life Gives You Lemons...
Paul Clermont
As of this writing, we have no firm idea of the human and economic toll to expect from the COVID-19 pandemic or how long painful countermeasures will be necessary. A crisis? For sure. Let’s not waste it; let’s learn from it. Our forced adaptation to a totally unfamiliar world can and should cause us to critically examine assumptions about how we live and work and conduct business. There is a broad spectrum of possibilities, but this Advisor focuses on where IT plays a major role.
