IDG Contributor Network: 8 common business design and architecture models

Enterprise architects are often asked to prioritize initiatives and projects. To complete this task, they need their organization’s strategies, goals, tactics and objectives. Too often, these can be very difficult to gather either because architects have never been aware that they existed or sometimes because they simply and plainly don’t exist. To extrapolate these strategies…

Merck prescribes AI for supply chain complexity

Merck KGaA is using artificial intelligence to better understand how its pharmaceutical products, including fertility and oncology drugs, traverse a network of suppliers and partners that is becoming more complex. It’s the latest leg in the German company’s journey from reacting to changes in the supply chain to predicting them and prescribing corrective actions, says…