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Yes, I know there hasn’t been much activity on this blog for quite a while now. But don’t worry. I’m still here, still busy as ever. It’s just that, right now, much of that work is necessarily appearing elsewhere. For…
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Yes, I know there hasn’t been much activity on this blog for quite a while now. But don’t worry. I’m still here, still busy as ever. It’s just that, right now, much of that work is necessarily appearing elsewhere. For…
Organizational resilience is emerging as a key source of competitive advantage in the age of hyper-competition and disruption. A new breed of leaders understands that winning requires being ambidextrous—the ability to embrace both speed/creativity and scale/productivity. In their Executive Update “Ambidextrous Organizations: How to Embrace Disruption and Create Organizational Advantage,” Cutter Consortium Senior Consultants Wilhelm Read more
The Industrial Agile Framework™, developed by Cutter Consortium Senior Consultant Hubert Smits and Peter Borsella, pulls together everything that’s needed to design and mass produce a product —beginning with an idea and including design, components, supplier considerations, manufacturing, and everything in between — to shorten the idea-to-launch time span for industrial products. In the Cutter Read more
MIT CISR research has concluded that digitally transformed companies enjoy net margins 16% above the industry average. Our top content from 2018 covers transformation’s various facets, such as business models, digital design, agility, analytics, and employee experience. Here are our top ten publications in 2018. Each of these publications can be accessed with free registration […]
With great power, as they say, comes great responsibility.#AI is powerful because the results are transferable from one domain to another.– @BulentKIzILtan, fomer head of Deep Learning @Aetna #cxotalk #HealthTech— Michael Krigsman #CXOTALK (@mkrigsman…
Everybody’s favourite internet-book-retailer-cum-cloud-computing-giant is planning for a wide range of outcomes after Brexit.”Like any business, we consider a wide range of scenarios in planning discussions so that we’re prepared to continue serving cu…
The purpose of this blogpost is to enumerate the declared ethical positions of major players in the data world. This is a work in progress.GoogleIn June 2018, Sundar Pinchai (Google CEO) announced a set of AI principles for Google. This inclu…
With the increase in regulations governing the privacy of personal…
Decisions made within the Enterprise are best made when adequately informed. The ability to access knowledge in a timely manner, to categorise, analyse and prioritise its importance is essential. Capturing knowledge both explicit and tacit can be an endeavour in … Continue reading →
Analyzing or designing the various features and functions of a software system can be daunting, especially when there are multiple actors and other interfacing systems involved. Thankfully, analysts can turn to use cases to make this process much easier. At the very minimum, an effective use case should: define how stakeholders interact with a system define how a system […]
Anyone fancy a job as Head of Infrastructure? Here is the job description, posted to Linked-In earlier this week.We’re responsible for “IT Change”, including the end to end architecture, deployment and maintenance of IT infrastructure technologies acro…
Some people talk as if data protection and security must be fixed before May 2018 because of GDPR. Wrong. Data protection and security must be fixed now.Morrisons (2014)The High Court has just found Morrisons to be liable for a leak of employee data by…