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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In this month’s issue of Cutter Business Technology Journal, we examine the latest advancements in technologies related to Industry 4.0 and the impact of these technologies on work, business, and organizations by featuring six articles that cover a range of topics.

This Advisor describes some of the notable challenges facing the evolution of blockchain.

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To show what is being implemented with currently available drone technologies and within the current regulatory framework, this Advisor offers examples from three verticals: construction, engineering, and precision agriculture.

This issue of Cutter Business Technology Journal examines the latest advancements in technologies related to Industry 4.0 and the impact of these technologies on work, business, and organizations. We feature six articles in this issue that cover a range of topics.

Most executives say agility is critical for the future of their business, yet only a small amount of their transformation efforts are delivering agility. This gap is caused by entrenched legacy culture and general resistance to change. Responding to these challenges and delivering business agility require more than Agile practices. Many organizations are discovering “solution focus” to be the missing piece of their transformation puzzle.

Weiyu Wang and Keng Siau address the ethical and moral predicaments that Industry 4.0 creates. They discuss Industry 4.0 ethical and moral issues from the perspective of different business-oriented forces — stakeholders and business executives, employees, customers/clients, society — and different technical-oriented forces — designers and developers, users, intelligent agents. Their framework in Industry 4.0 considers ethical issues related to data and ethical issues related to systems, technology products, and services. Their discussion will enable business executives and technical designers/developers to have a better understanding and appreciation of the ethical and moral challenges in Industry 4.0.