This Advisor explores how knowledge graphs (KGs) help connect and extract value from big data. While widely adopted by tech giants, KGs shouldn’t replace relational databases outright; the choice depends on factors like data exploration speed and scalability needs. KGs enable visualizing connections for deeper insights, uncover hidden interdependencies through algorithms, and allow flexible scaling by starting small and expanding over time.

Part II of this Advisor series on change management focuses on the critical role of a reimagined change management office (CMO) in driving successful digital transformations. It examines the CMO’s solution catalog, levels of program engagement, and essential enablers for effective change management, offering actionable insights to enhance organizational adaptability and transformation outcomes.

This Advisor explores how AI tools are transforming sustainable agriculture by integrating with traditional farming practices. Through three case studies, it highlights how farms are leveraging AI for disease detection, weather prediction, and crop management while addressing challenges such as infrastructure gaps and community skepticism. By blending technology with local knowledge, these farms demonstrate pathways to achieving climate-resilient and sustainable agricultural outcomes.

In this Advisor, CIOs highlight the importance of IT projects that, while lacking direct business impact, deliver critical strategic benefits such as resource optimization, technical debt reduction, and infrastructure support. They discuss the challenges of managing ROI in environments constrained by limited resources, emphasizing the CIO’s role in balancing cost-efficiency with human impact and explore the often-overlooked accountability of reallocating resources to higher-impact projects, reinforcing the broader value IT contributes to organizational goals.

This Advisor emphasizes that true leadership transcends titles and is rooted in authenticity and conscious awareness. The inner leadership journey shifts from ego-driven action to being, unlocking profound personal and organizational transformation essential for today’s leaders.

This Advisor builds on our previous discussion about AI’s transformative role in wildlife conservation and research. It delves into the development of AI applications and highlights key AI models such as CNNs, SVMs, and random forests. These technologies enhance efforts in species identification, habitat monitoring, and biodiversity tracking, driving global collaboration and more effective conservation strategies.

Healthcare and pharma are embracing a data revolution, powered by wearables, AI, and genomics/precision medicine. These technologies drive efficiency, precision, and innovation, but their true value depends on aligning outcomes with stakeholder needs. This Advisor explores how data-driven decision-making, value-based metrics, and emerging technologies are transforming healthcare services.

In Part I of this three-part Advisor series on change management, we lay out the challenges associated with change in digital transformations and explore an innovative CMO solution to those challenges that leverages data analytics and GenAI.

This Advisor suggests a new framework for incorporating corporate responsibility into product design; its categories include equity and justice, transparency, health and safety impacts, circularity, and climate and ecosystem impacts. This method results in an inclusive design process that embodies corporate responsibility.

This Advisor explores the Digital Trust Transformative Market (DTTM) model, which offers a robust solution to the challenges faced by traditional agri-food supply chains. DTTM leverages blockchain technology to foster trust among supply chain actors and enables the creation of dynamic, efficient, sustainable supply chains.

In this Advisor, bestselling author Philippa White stresses that business is at an inflection point: the power is shifting into the hands of customers and employees, and there is a competitive urgency to create spaces and cultures where people want to work. The leaders who can do this will win; these leaders put human values like kindness, empathy, vulnerability, imagination, creativity, and courage first.

This Advisor provides an overview of how AI-powered platforms are radically transforming wildlife conservation and explores key application domains and use cases. These technologies also facilitate greater collaboration among the global conservation community.

Farmers, commodities suppliers, investors, and governments are well aware of the need for innovation to support more sustainable practices and protect scarce agricultural resources. However, due to the complexity and individuality of farming systems, knowing what tech to invest in and under what circumstances is a significant challenge. As this Advisor explores, recent advances in AI can support these innovation decisions and provide information on the broader direction of relevant emerging technologies.

People understand what character is and why it matters but not what it takes to cultivate the habits associated with character. Without this understanding, efforts to elevate character to achieve competitive advantage at either the individual or organizational level will be compromised. As this Advisor explores, character must be embedded and institutionalized across the organization to reach its full strategic impact.

Europe has an urgent need to decarbonize, but its progress lags other regions, including the US, Australia, and Japan. This Advisor examines the current state of carbon capture, utilization, and storage (CCUS) technologies in Europe and explains how some countries are increasing their carbon-capture capacities.

In this Advisor, data and AI innovation strategist Bill Schmarzo introduces a collaborative, design-centric, human-empowered framework that can help organizations leverage AI to create new sources of customer, product, service, and operational value.

This Advisor presents results from a recent study that investigates how humility and narcissism affect CEO behavior. With a sample of 190 CEOs and data collected from interviews and public sources, the author introduces a set of diverse CEO archetypes by measuring humility, narcissism, and entrepreneurial status.

To illustrate the benefits of our dynamic pricing approach over other benchmarks, we carried out several computational studies and a case study using Share Now data from the city of Vienna, Austria. As this Advisor explores, that approach outperforms all benchmarks, saves providers operational costs, and improves sustainability via clear decarbonization benefits.

As examples from Southwest Airlines and Delta illustrate, there is a critical need for CIOs to address technical debt within mission-critical systems. Frequent Cutter contributor Myles Suer recently spoke with a group of CIOs about this need and the steps leaders can take to protect these systems. This Advisor shares some of those insights, emphasizing enterprise architecture’s role in eliminating tech debt.

Organizations that are highly effective at strategic portfolio management are twice as likely to achieve better business outcomes as those that aren’t. This case study from a Fortune 500 organization reflects strategic portfolio management concepts in action and illustrates the value that a capability perspective can bring to project portfolio decision-making.

Companies are applying AI, computer vision, machine learning, and robotics to develop intelligent recycling platforms that enhance the efficiency and profitability of the recycling process. This Advisor examines some of these emerging technologies.

Digital twins have been widely adopted by the aerospace and manufacturing industries, but their potential benefits in the mining industry are only starting to be realized. This Advisor presents a mining industry case study with a focus on data collection, integration, and storage challenges.

There are many perspectives on what constitutes “good” nonprofit organization (NPO) governance. Even so, most agree that, given the behavioral expectations faced by NPO board members, strong judgment (informed by the dimensions of leader character) must combine with instrumental skills to underpin all decisions made by the board.

This Advisor takes a closer look at a new concept called “smart farming.” This concept refers to the use of advanced technologies and data-driven approaches to improve agricultural productivity, efficiency, and sustainability. Specifically, it involves integrating modern technologies into traditional farming practices to monitor, automate, and optimize agricultural operations

Competing factors come into play to determine our tolerance to AI hallucination. This Advisor stresses that understanding context is crucial to making informed decisions about strategically adopting and implementing emerging technologies and provides key takeaways that can help us balance the potential value of the opportunity with our risk tolerance.