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.

Having diversity is a stepping-stone in the process of effective workplace inclusion, not a conclusion. In this Advisor, we address the steps necessary to move the diversity and inclusion needle within organizations, first taking into account that organizations are responsible for the well-being and growth of their members.

This Advisor outlines the makeup of a transformational leadership team, how to form the team, how it can focus its efforts, behaviors, and expectations, and how to convert the themes and horizons established during transformation planning into objectives and key results to ground the change in metrics and reality.

In times of significant world threats, leaders have had to work closely with HR to address workers’ fear, stress, uncertainty, lack of clarity, and even panic. In this Advisor, we provide some tools to help HR management meet these challenges.

Silos can help distribute the work­load but they also make it difficult to collaborate and share resources. This Advisor explores some of the challenges that silos can create.

When it comes to digital twin security, how much of the safety, security, and reliability depends on the technology built into the digital twin system, and how much is down to its deployment, operation, and maintenance? This Advisor explores these and other digital twin security issues.

In this series, the authors explore leadership practices that enable teams to engage in collective creativity toward the best possible (novel, relevant, valuable) outcome. This Advisor looks at the particularly entrepreneurial qualities or acts that are part of this way of leading, and asserts that in a postindustrial innovation economy, the entrepreneurship component in leadership moves ahead of the management component.

This Advisor explores the advantages and disadvantages of recent technological advancements in banking, beyond automated teller machines and online banking.

In this Advisor, we describe some of the different forms of discounts available from cloud vendors in an effort to translate the cloud vendors’ terms into well-known financial concepts. 

At certain rarefied levels of architecture, an architect may be operating in a mode that is closer to artistry rather than design. It involves weaving people’s mental models with the conceptual and logical models that represent things that might be on the ground today as well as tomorrow, so that architectural ideas find their way into decisions and actions that change the landscape and outcomes sought by the enterprise.

This Advisor explores the results of our recent “Intelligent Process Automation in the Enterprise” survey measuring the benefits and ROI from IPA practices. This slice of data was analyzed to determine whether or not organizations' IPA initiatives are currently meeting or beating expectations, and the reasoning behind our respondents answers.

This Advisor explores how organizations can utilize digital twins to see their products in action, over time, when subjected to physical environments, as well as visualize exactly when and where maintenance is needed. This lets product developers close the loop on a product’s design simulations and helps engineers make more informed choices for future designs.

People in technical roles are uniquely qualified to contribute to diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts.