Strategic advice to leverage new technologies
Technology is at the heart of nearly every enterprise, enabling new business models and strategies, and serving as the catalyst to industry convergence. Leveraging the right technology can improve business outcomes, providing intelligence and insights that help you make more informed and accurate decisions. From finding patterns in data through data science, to curating relevant insights with data analytics, to the predictive abilities and innumerable applications of AI, to solving challenging business problems with ML, NLP, and knowledge graphs, technology has brought decision-making to a more intelligent level. Keep pace with the technology trends, opportunities, applications, and real-world use cases that will move your organization closer to its transformation and business goals.
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Cutter Expert San Murugesan spotlights AI’s worrisome “dark side.” Specifically, he outlines a wide array of concerns related to AI’s inherent complexity, scalability, reliability, and ethical issues. More importantly, Murugesan sets forth a trust framework that can underpin responsible and effective AI design, development, implementation, and application.
Arthur D. Little’s Michael Eiden, Philippe Monnot, Armand Rotaru explore how knowledge graphs (KGs) help connect and extract value from big data. While widely adopted by tech giants, KGs shouldn’t replace relational databases outright; the choice depends on factors like data exploration speed and scalability needs. KGs enable visualizing connections for deeper insights, uncover hidden interdependencies through algorithms, and allow flexible scaling by starting small and expanding over time.
Jeremy Blain offers a thought-provoking demarcation of digital detachment and determination. He identifies the pitfalls of widespread tepid and failed transformation projects in recent years and trumpets the imperative for credible leadership that forges meaningful digital era readiness. The article equips senior executives with the insights they need to ask meaningful questions and take substantive actions to ready their organizations for the decade ahead.
In his article, Noah Barsky explores the criticality of financial insight and responsibility. Timely and timeless financial acumen is as crucial as ever in the digital era, as it can quickly reveal which enterprises are, in reality, only technologies in search of a sustainable business model. Despite the fluid and fleeting lexicon of business buzzwords, leaders of well-run organizations honor fiscal stewardship, deliver competitive returns, and communicate with clarity and candor.
Part II of this Advisor series on change management focuses on the critical role of a reimagined change management office (CMO) in driving successful digital transformations. It examines the CMO’s solution catalog, levels of program engagement, and essential enablers for effective change management, offering actionable insights to enhance organizational adaptability and transformation outcomes.
In this Advisor, we explore how AI tools are transforming sustainable agriculture by integrating with traditional farming practices. Through three case studies, we highlight how farms are leveraging AI for disease detection, weather prediction, and crop management while addressing challenges such as infrastructure gaps and community skepticism. By blending technology with local knowledge, these farms demonstrate pathways to achieving climate-resilient and sustainable agricultural outcomes.
In this Advisor, CIOs highlight the importance of IT projects that, while lacking direct business impact, deliver critical strategic benefits such as resource optimization, technical debt reduction, and infrastructure support. They discuss the challenges of managing ROI in environments constrained by limited resources, emphasizing the CIO’s role in balancing cost-efficiency with human impact and explore the often-overlooked accountability of reallocating resources to higher-impact projects, reinforcing the broader value IT contributes to organizational goals.
Armand Smits, an assistant professor of organizational change and design at Radboud University, the Netherlands, tackles one of the most pressing issues in digital sustainability: the rising energy and environmental cost of data centers. Digital sustainability approaches and AI rely on large amounts of data that are increasing exponentially and must be stored and processed in data centers. Smits provides a deep dive into the Climate Neutral Data Centre Pact (CNDCP) to help managers and policymakers understand how to limit the environmental impact of data centers.