Scrum embodies Agile ways of working and new organizational constructs, but does it consistently deliver the Agile promise of improved performance? Agile Lineout — another metaphor from rugby — is a new approach that uses progressive steps to increase predictability, quality, and delivery efficiency.

Although the concept of a digital twin in automotive is not new, the mass deployment of embedded con­nectivity and the ability to remotely extract critical vehicle data is. As vehicle components and systems evolve from concept and design to manufacture and operation, so does the digital twin.

This Advisor explores the challenges of LC/NC and the potential benefits for businesses, from simply reducing the IT backlog to serving as a POC for digital transformation.

In a recent webinar, Cutter Consortium Senior Consultant Mike Rosen explored the circular economy concept, its broad impact on business and operating models, and the role of architects in facilitating the shift to a circular economy. This Advisor shares the Q&A session that followed. Perhaps Mike’s advice will spark some new ideas on how your organization can participate in the circular economy.

Microsoft buying Nuance Communications — a leader in natural language processing (NLP) and speech-powered solutions — for US $19.7 billion is the most important artificial intelligence (AI)–related acquisition to take place so far this year.

Digital twins have the power to vastly increase the reliability and cost-effectiveness of products, creating an enormous economic impact. However, most businesses lack the dedicated resources to create a simulated product model, verify the model, deploy the model, and analyze the collected information. This article presents a solution that easily integrates across business functions and places digital twins within reach of many companies currently overwhelmed by the challenge.

In this Advisor, we turn our attention to the risk mismanagement of the US’s COVID-19 pandemic vaccination preparations.

Portfolio management in the enterprise is very similar to portfolio management in the financial community — with similar disappointments. In this Advisor, we explore five elements of failure that contribute to these disappointments.

There are many good practices in bridging the maturity gap that are common to all leading EA practices: Determining the type of architectural change required, deciding the required level of EA maturity, defining the right set of areas for change, and creating well-defined maturity descriptions all help make overall improvements in EA maturity. This Advisor provides suggestions to help you build EA maturity that are considered common sense, but are frequently overlooked.

As the technology develops, digital twins could give rise to a new era of predictive medicine by giving clinicians a way to simulate the outcomes of possible interventions and create detailed plans for complex surgeries. This Advisor explores the potential of digital twin technology in the healthcare industry.

Explore the leadership lessons learned by observing four gathered but distant string quartets performing a new 35-minute piece of music collaboratively in various performance settings.

As the fourth installment in the series “Ingredients for Enterprise Agility,” this Advisor explores how a transformation team can create and maintain momentum by mobilizing volunteers, walking the board, applying the pickup sticks model, and creating an evidence board.

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.

For years, businesses have been operating in a world that has become riskier and increasingly volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous (VUCA). With the emergence of COVID-19, the past year has catapulted that risk, upending social, political, and economic structures in ways previously unimagined. In this Advisor, we take a closer look at some of the challenges that employees and leaders face in this increasingly VUCA world.

Innovation doesn’t always mean grand invention. Sometimes reimagining the supply chain can yield big results and redefine a company’s future.

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.

To successfully accelerate transformation, digital leaders must be tightly aligned in three pillars: 1) team (for continuous collaboration), 2) talent (for continuous learning), and 3) technology (for continuous delivery). This Advisor provides insight into these three pillars and explores how to use each to support organizational transformation.

This Advisor 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.

Digital transformation brings an accelerated move of data and applications to the cloud, which translates to a larger attack surface for cybercriminals. This Advisor explores how to use runtime application self-protection (RASP) to improve and advance application security for organizations.

This Advisor explores the seven new rules of data analytics, the associated IT architectural adoption challenges which encompass technological, IT staff, and organizational issues. and strategies for addressing them.

How many times must a predictable, recurring risk transform into a crisis before those in charge decide that perhaps steps should be taken to mitigate the risk? In the case of Texas power-generating utilities and US states’ pandemic vaccinations preparations, it appears that the answer is at least three times and counting.

Digital twins have a range of capabilities that contribute to organi­zational agility. This Advisor explores how these capabilities link to agility dimensions, including data management capabilities, simulation, modeling, optimization, learning, and traceability.

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.