The smartphone is increasingly the hub for personal information and identity. People are collecting, and often willing to share, information that fundamentally changes the way that businesses inter­act with them. Enterprise architects can no longer be content looking at the boundaries of our own ­organizations. We need to model the way our stakeholders operate.

In this Executive Update, we investigate the dynamics of digital payment platforms in the Danish market. Although our focus is on Denmark, the strategies we discuss likely generalize to a large extent to the entry and expansion strategies of digital payment solutions in other markets.

This Executive Update provides an understanding of the concepts behind fork and pull and its possible applications for internal and external software development projects, as well as its potential for other applications.

In this article, we focus on the difficulties posed by small series production in ramp-up and a novel production control solution that is helping to alleviate them. The risks of such production are not comparable to big series automotive ramp-up scenarios. Production and control strategies thus need to be adapted accordingly.

Connected devices are set to dramatically change healthcare in general and clinical and pharmaceutical studies and the treatment of chronic diseases, in particular. The key to utilizing sensor data generated by personal health, fitness, and medical devices is to correlate it with other more traditional healthcare and medical data -- such as doctor-created medical records, clinical research, and individual genomes -- data sets that are typically unstructured, fragmented, and not easily integrated or analyzed.

Data generated by sensor-enabled devices is making it possible for organizations to measure activities and behavior that was not really practical before the advent of smartphones, wearables (e.g., watches, bracelets, anklets, and smart clothing), and other connected devices. In short, connected devices are leading to new applications and larger and richer data sets.

In this special double issue of Cutter IT Journal, we endeavor to examine the correlation between empathy and the practices surrounding the systems development lifecycle (SDLC). Our goal is to demonstrate the benefits that an empathy-based approach can bring to the SDLC and the way that IT leaders interact with their internal customers and constituents.

Enabled with the Internet of Everything (IoE), smart services gather and share information directly with each other through onsite and virtual cloud solutions, making it possible to collect, record, and analyze new data streams faster and more accurately. The emerging IoE is a game changer for healthcare.