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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Anjali Kaushik attempts to unfold the mystery of failed technology projects, with her examination dropping into the trenches. Her analysis is anything but conventional. She begins by looking at the necessity and meaning of process redesign. Kaushik’s advice to match technology projects to complementary assets and capabilities is especially helpful.
Mitigating the risks of developing and deploying SaaS carries with it similar challenges to on-premises implementations. In this Advisor, we highlight six lessons learned.
In most enterprises, business processes are automated in isolation, creating “automation silos” — a major barrier to realizing the fuller potential of enterprise-wide integrated automation. Businesses must take a more strategic approach if they are to break automation silos. This Advisor identifies four key considerations that should go into planning for smart automation 2.0.
AI-powered educational applications hold the promise of helping to narrow the learning gap by providing educational opportunities to people of all ages regardless of gender, economic/social status, or the availability of established schools and other traditional educational resources. This Advisor examines the use of AI for personalized learning and enhanced online/distance learning platforms in the form of cloud-based and mobile applications and provides some examples of commercial AI-powered educational applications.
Will legacy and new auto manufacturing entrants be nimble and resilient enough to adapt their business models as the industry shifts to EVs? How can AI be used to detect or even prevent a wildfire occurrence? Find out in this latest edition of The Cutter Edge!
Green IT and green initiatives are now a key agenda for enterprises and governments and are driven by the benefits they offer and several ongoing developments, such as concerns about climate change, government regulations, and peer pressure and influence. This Advisor outlines the strategies and steps that will help you implement a Green IT approach in your enterprise.
AI certainly challenges our understanding of what intelligence is, not to mention our belief in the inherent superiority of human thinking over machines. But the causes of mistrust go beyond these existential considerations, as are identified in this Advisor.
This Executive Update first reviews cloud basics then looks at lessons learned from past on-premises development and deployment applications and how these apply to SaaS. It then examines some additional challenges SaaS brings to organizations, including the underlying reasons why SaaS projects can fail.