Companies across various industries — including manufacturing, medical, electronics, defense, construction, and retail (among others) — are investigating the potential for applying blockchain technology for proving the provenance of parts and materials used in assembling products or building new structures.

The IIoT risk is real. A strategy to manage this risk is a must, and the components discussed in this Advisor can help.

Being in a project management office (PMO) is tough. In many ways it feels like the ultimate corporate middle man role. What we are really trying to do is fundamentally change the role of the PMO. At the end of the day, perhaps even the name of the role will be altered: from PMO to Change Agents.

There are no silver bullets to adopting an enterprise architecture in your startup, but the aim is to enable your culture to accept it so as to drive the organization’s digital transformation.

Data science is essential in extracting value from big data but it is not sufficient. It makes use of technical, management, and business analysis skills. Data science also deals with the enterprise architecture of the organization. Astute leadership is essential and an imperative for value extraction from big data.

In this Advisor, we propose a maturity framework that addresses the data management challenges for organizations seeking to develop and deploy IoT platforms.

Effective digital IT strategies and successful execution of long- and short-term plans enable organizations to realize the goals of digital business strategies and provide guidance to enterprise architecture.

Discover how pilot projects for digital innovations can benefit from adopting an Agile development approach. 

Business architecture provides the transparency needed to proactively avoid crises through risk and compliance management — and to respond in kind when crises do arise.

Based on the demand for Agile skills in the workplace, it is quite clear that leaders across the globe are coming to rely more and more on Agile principles and practices to achieve their goals. What makes some of these leaders successful with their Agile adoptions while other leaders seem to struggle?

Blockchain is expected to see considerable application in insurance, including for claims management and processing; P2P insurance; managing policy, documentation, and other insurance information; automating sales and underwriting; and for supporting compliance efforts.

Peer-to-peer financing in the form of crowdfunding is increasingly filling a funding gap for companies that are unable to obtain traditional financing or are too early in their lifecycle to attract angel investors and venture capitalists.

Driving business risk down is just smart business. Software-related business risk is an increasing portion of business risk, so knowing how to assiduously reduce software risk has become part and parcel of today’s business reality.

For an enterprise architect, the key point is to understand digital disruption as well as you can and plan the best possible response given this understanding.

People, on their own, are generally not good at using both fast and slow thinking, which is why quantitative analysts exist and use lots of tools.

In this Advisor, I offer a real-world example of a company that is investing in the Industrial IoT (IIoT), taken from an ongoing project in a global life science–biopharma organization.

Implementing robotic process automation (RPA) in any organization is itself a process with defined steps. In this Advisor, we discuss the critical junctures required to achieve process automation implementation in any organization.

Many long-standing problems like technical debt owe their longevity to two factors — not dealing effectively with their causes and not dealing effectively with their resilience. Because what limits our ability to deal with technical debt might be not be technical, it is useful to explore possible psychological sources of the longevity of the technical debt problem, including the language we use to describe it.

This Advisor considers the decision-making challenges faced by architects within complex enterprises and in the face of many kinds of uncertainties, as well as a way to think about how to design in the real-world gray area that lies between certainty and uncertainty.

Blockchain has a number of applications in finance and accounting, including for facilitating triple-entry accounting, ensuring data integrity, automated auditing, and streamlining money transfers and payments.

I strongly believe that adopting a particular methodology is not the answer to achieving agility. Rather, organizations need to fix their internal structure and the way they operate. In this Advisor, I will discuss the challenges hindering agility and also the bottlenecks that prevent organizations from delivering business value. I focus on six phenomena that make any organization rigid.

How do you want your billing? Per hour? Per second? Per millisecond? Amazon Web Services (AWS) now has them all.

EA can be an effective tool for addressing digital and IT transformation in businesses of any size, as long as they are not rigid about their approach and do not try using a big hammer where thumb pressure will work.

We’re in the very beginning of a revolution dubbed the "Internet of Things," which enables us to propose and develop solutions for interacting with everything connected to the global Internet. Today, it’s the time for everything, rather than everyone, to get connected.

In this Advisor, I look at three stages of information superiority, with increasing levels of customer centricity.