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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Jacek Chmiel provides a reality check on citizen development, pointing out that rather than digital natives, it’s digital-era employees who have the most to gain from digital transformation technology, often starting with no code and moving into the low-code environment of their choice. Chmiel suggests two solutions to the issue of poor flexibility in these platforms: having deep knowledge of the platform and/or augmenting with hard-core code. He also tackles the issues of IT security and vendor lock-in and then looks at the future of low-code.
Ronan Hughes says low-code/no-code can be viewed as a low-risk/no-regrets approach to organizational transformation. He describes how citizen development (CD) can improve IT delivery and speed strategic development and operations and then goes into detail about the opportunities CD offers to the business, IT, and combined business/IT applications.
Noel Carroll et al. outline several digital transformation challenges, illustrate how citizen development addresses them, and offer seven recommendations for those planning such an initiative.
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This Advisor offers a brief introduction into how to create a cloud center of excellence and provides procurement-friendly discussion points for reaping the benefits of cloud computing.
Although still in development, products and services utilizing FHE are available. Organizations should consider investigating the technology now in order to prepare for when it starts to enter the mainstream. This Advisor examines some companies, products, and services utilizing FHE that can help you in your investigation.
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Even before the pandemic, online retail and rapid food delivery struggled to service “the last mile” to the doorstep. Surging demand from “stay/work/live-at-home” consumers compounded the problem and stressed even the most reliable delivery services.