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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Citizen development promises to improve enterprise productivity and accelerate value delivery, enabling organizations to achieve outcomes more quickly. This Advisor presents seven key recommendations for organizations undergoing or planning to pursue a digital transformation and adopt a citizen development (CD) initiative.
Time and money are never unlimited, but failing to establish cutoffs for testing is a common mistake that relates directly to how much testing is needed. If the project does not establish cutoff dates for testing, nobody can plan defect work because new bugs will always be arriving on an unpredictable schedule.
The move from conventional computing to quantum computing won’t be like a simple change in technology providers. Quantum processors use a wholly new way of solving complex problems; as we explore in this Advisor, that requires a new way of thinking about problems. Software programs designed for conventional computers aren’t going to work.
If enterprises must be agile as well as secure, there cannot be daylight between security design and the broader architecture and purpose of the enterprise. Many enterprises may need to take a step back, survey the security landscape, and evaluate the level of coherence of their security architecture.
Finding and leveraging the right data is key to achieving strategic advantage. Creating a data supermarket of usable data can help businesses make critical decisions, and a system called cataloging makes this data supermarket possible. This Advisor explores how cataloging enables the connection of different elements of a data pipeline to provide a more orderly and efficient management of data, especially as the volume and variety of data increases.
More than a decade ago, Cutter Consortium introduced the concept of green IT in an Executive Report and outlined IT’s role in creating a sustainable environment. The topic has become all the more important and relevant today. In this Report, we provide an updated, holistic view of greening IT and how we can — and should — embrace IT to address the environmental challenges we face.
The accompanying Executive Report, an update to a previous Report, outlines IT’s environmental impacts, discusses three key facets of green IT, and shows how we can go green with our IT systems and applications. The Report highlights opportunities for IT-enabled solutions and assistance to better sustain and manage our environment and presents useful insights to help make smart green IT decisions.
In Part II of this Executive Update series on business architecture and sustainability, we detail business architecture’s role in transitioning to the circular economy while concurrently delivering related business strategies that include opening up new markets and new revenue streams.