Sure, we all want our IT initiatives to succeed. We regularly evaluate our projects, in-flight or upon completion, looking for tangible lessons to learn. We apply these strategic and tactical takeaways in hopes of increasing the chances of success for each subsequent initiative. We seek approaches that work for different industries, organizations, teams, and technologies.…
2017 saw an explosion of machine learning in production use, with even deep learning and artificial intelligence (AI) being leveraged for practical applications. “Basic analytics are out; machine learning (and beyond) are in,” says Kenneth Sanford, U.S. lead analytics architect for collaborative data science platform Dataiku, as he looks back on 2017. Sanford says practical…
Join host Maryfran Johnson on Twitter (@CIOonline) for an in-depth interview with CIO Joel Jacobs of MITRE Corp., a private non-profit research organization that provides consulting, engineering, and technical services for numerous federal government agencies. They will discuss how MITRE keeps innovating — in everything from predictive analytics to mobile app development, plus Jacobs’ unique…
Walk into a leadership meeting and ask the following question: “Who here has experience working with business architectures?” You’ll get about the same response as you would by asking, “Who could use a coffee right about now?” Everyone knows, but no one can explain. Business architecture is an enterprise blueprint. It defines the organizational structure…
After two decades, platform companies are still collecting tons of data, filling their databases with information of everyone’s knowledge, opinions, recommendations, locations, movements, buying behavior, relation status, lifestyle, etc. This is not a secret and nothing new. And speaking of artificial intelligence (AI), the platform companies are fully embracing and heavily investing into AI. However,…
Today’s CIO need to achieve many things to be relevant to their business counterparts. At the top of this list should be establishing business transparency. The question is how do they achieve it? And what things are needed to put transparency in place? These are the questions that I posed recently to the #CIOChat. Their…
For all the hype, blockchain has yet to go mainstream in the enterprise. That may well change in 2018 as the technology’s reputation for trusted transactions continues to grow among IT leaders. Blockchain is a shared digital ledger for recording transactions. Each transaction among participants in a network is tucked into a record known as a…
The word agile has hit mainstream in the German market. What used to be exotic 5-6 years ago is now in the minds of IT leadership at all levels. Unfortunately, the word agile is being interpreted in multiple ways. We are finding that most organizations immediately jump into “doing agile” – learning what SCRUM is,…
As CIOs work out their spending and strategies for the year, the annual review of the disaster recovery and business continuity plan will inevitably form part of a lengthy to-do list. Yet with the ever-increasing threats from both natural and man-made disasters – from the devastating fires and flooding in California last year through to…
Business-capability models, business-process models, and business-organizational models define the foundation of your business partner’s business. We’ve all seen them. Some look amazingly complex, and others you wonder if they were stopped half way through the process. Together, these models are the cornerstone for tomorrow’s success, as they define the present and future state of a…