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The technologies of this era — the postnormal era, the fourth industrial revolution, or any of its other synonyms — have accelerated society to such an extent that we have been, in effect, colonized by the future. Work is being futured at a pace driven by the advance of our fastest technologies and the consequent blurring among digital, physical, biological, and even cognitive systems. 

2019 is likely to shape up as a year in which the news is less about what technology can do for us than about what it can do to us.

We’re going to make some business people cringe right off the bat with this claim: there is an ontology in your near future. In this article, we will explain what that means and why we assert it.

What’s in store for drones in 2019? Continued integration into business workflows and the national airspace, along with more innovations coming to market in UAS technologies.

Using preliminary results from an ongoing Cutter Consortium survey, along with additional research, Cutter Consortium Senior Consultant Curt Hall has identified several trends and developments that organizations may want to consider when assessing their own CX management journey.

With 2019 here and 2020 around the corner, it is time to recognize there are new rules in analytics and data management. These rules have created a wildly different analytics environment from the past. It’s time for organizations to embrace these new rules.

This article explores some of the ways in which effective risk management approaches, in particular the use of key risk indicators (KRIs) to drive proactive executive behavior, can reduce unnecessary risk exposure and minimize the potential for catastrophic events. We discuss the current state of risk-monitoring maturity in the business world, considerations for the selection of appropriate leading and lagging KRIs and their effective implementation, and then present insight for executives on what steps to take to improve risk monitoring.

As we begin a new year and the world accelerates and shifts around us, it is important to take an honest look at where we are with enterprise architecture (EA) today and where we are — or should be — going.