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Digital Transformation, Enterprise Architecture

Gartner’s Influence on Technology Decisions: A Balanced Approach to Enterprise Architecture Tools

Gartner’s Influence on Technology Decisions: A Balanced Approach to Enterprise Architecture Tools

In today’s rapidly evolving technological landscape, choosing the right tools and vendors to support enterprise architecture (EA) is more critical than ever. These decisions can significantly impact how well an organization aligns its IT capabilities with its strategic goals. Gartner, one of the most influential players in technology research, provides resources like the Magic Quadrant …

Business Intelligence, Digital Transformation, Enterprise Architecture

How Enterprise Architecture Can Foster Sustainable Practices

How Enterprise Architecture Can Foster Sustainable Practices

From Sustainability Strategy to Execution In the last ten years, enterprise architects have played a central role in the digital transformation. Their holistic view of the organization, underpinned by comprehensive methodologies and extensive access to IT and business portfolio data, makes them ideally suited to translate business strategies into actionable plans. However, enterprise architects have …

Digital Transformation

Sustainability in Technology: Innovating for a Greener Future

Sustainability in Technology: Innovating for a Greener Future

What Is Sustainable Technology? Sustainable technology aims to improve the environmental compatibility of societies, companies, and households. It involves reducing the carbon footprint of various tasks and using more environmentally friendly production techniques. Ideally, it achieves both. Sustainable technologies permeate all levels of green projects and strategies. From “greener” phone companies like Fairphone to large-scale …

Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning

Machine Learning as Decision Making

Can ML replace all decision logic? Traditionally, software developers used logical gates or decision trees to make choices in code. When the criteria are met, the system can make a decision without human input. One of the uses for Machine Learning is to allow the software to make decisions without hard-coded logic or semantic-based algorithms. …

Artificial Intelligence, Business Intelligence, Digital Transformation

How Emerging Technologies Are Transforming Businesses

Advances in emerging technologies have created an environment ripe for inventors and entrepreneurs seeking to create innovative solutions and products which are designed to improve and better existing business processes. The role of Digital Transformation can be thought of as a process facilitating the shift towards more efficient and productive ways of doing things. In this article, we will review some of the more recent advancements in emerging technologies which are helping businesses transform their operations.

Leadership, Management

Metacognition – how to deal with derailing agendas

matacognition

The word Meta comes from Greek and it means a change or beyond. The meaning of Cognition is more obvious, it represents our thinking. Metacognition refers to an ability to think beyond your current thought process or to change your thought while it occurs. I prefer to think of it as a skill that allows …

Business Intelligence, Digital Transformation, Management

Systems Thinking

systems

Systems Thinking is not about systems or even about technology, although its origins started in that domain. Systems Thinking is about seeing the world from a 30,000 foot view. The idea behind this concept started in information management, where technologists needed to understand the full big picture in order to design individual parts of a …

Artificial Intelligence, Conversational UI, Digital Assistants

The Future of Personal Digital Assistants

digital assistants

oday, an average person can have over a dozen individual tasks that need to be completed in any single day. Food shopping, going to work, making dinner, picking up kids from school, going to the gym, seeing a stylist, planning a vacation, doing homework, and so on. As our lives get busier and more fast-paced, we start to rush through things, which often results in lower attention to detail and subsequent less than optimal results.

Business Intelligence, Digital Transformation

How to Adopt New Technology

How to Adopt New Technology

The process by which organizations and people adopt technology is a well-studied phenomenon, yet a lot of organizations operate seemingly in the dark without a proper methodology or model, often leaving them with tools which have little use or systems which are nearing the end of their lifespan soon after they are launched. It’s no …