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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This on-demand webinar introduces several approaches to measuring EA value and recommends a process for deriving EA value metrics that aligns with your organization’s value drivers.
This issue of Cutter Business Technology Journal, with Guest Editor Eric Willeke, explores the strategies leaders should embrace to enable transformational change. These include integrating elements of digital, Agile, DevOps, and other modern practices, embracing a holistic mindset and culture, measuring impact, and reimagining new approaches to formerly tried-and-true practices.
Successful transformation requires organizations to structure and operate in new ways, which requires creating many new patterns for designing teams and their collaborations with other groups. Anna Wiedemann et al. introduce one example of an organizational structure tactic for enabling successful evolutionary change with a small group of development teams supported by a vendor-managed operations environment.
As leaders, we naturally focus on the exciting, high-impact areas, which unfortunately leads to blind spots around the boring, "un-fun" areas. Cheryl Crupi shares six hygiene factors that can be crippling if not addressed. The factors highlight the need for a holistic approach to agility that integrates elements of digital, Agile, DevOps, and many other modern practices for companies that want to be successful in the digital age.
Cristina Popescu and Danish Aziz introduce objectives and key results (OKRs), one of the core tools for creating alignment in times of intense change and anchoring the types of steering approaches capable of keeping up with the decision speed required to be effective in the digital age.
In this Advisor, Barry O'Reilly discusses how 2021 will be the year to forgo making predictions with the hope that more designers of systems and organizations will realize the importance of residue, of introducing greater optionality, and of diversity of approaches to problems, instead of simplistic beliefs in easy solutions to complex problems.
The notion of shifting security left — to an earlier point in development — is growing in popularity. This Advisor explores how a combination of two tools can enable your security and technology teams to provision secure, purpose-built infrastructure that you can then use to guarantee compliance to your policies by implementing those policies as code.
As data breaches continue to occur with increasing frequency, a new innovation called fully homomorphic encryption or FHE provides the ability to perform computational processing on encrypted data without the need to decrypt it. This Advisor explores the benefits and limitations of this new form of encryption.