Mark Miller - April 19, 2019 - 14 views

The healthcare industry has been a champion of whole-person care for decades, yet we seem no closer to a solution for proactive health management than we were in the early days of nurse advice lines and disease management programs. In the past, public and private healthcare organizations looked toward Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs to help […]

Navin Rao - April 18, 2019 - 25 views

Imagine a short circuit triggers a fire in your building while you’re at work, and the smoke detector in your smart home fails to raise an alarm. Or you receive a notification that your bank account was compromised because the bank’s mobile application had experienced a cyber attack. Or the insulin-monitoring digital pill miscalculates your […]

In healthcare, the process of receiving payment is unlike that of any other business. For most transactions in other industries, the consumer makes a full payment when a service is performed or product is received. Such is not the case in healthcare: Imagine going to Best Buy and saying, “I’ll take the TV home now, […]

Not since the dot-com boom of the early 2000s has there been a topic as ubiquitous in business circles as digital transformation. That’s likely because so few companies have truly found their groove in reimagining and rearchitecting their capabilities for the Fourth Industrial Revolution. It remains a battle even for those organizations that have been […]

Raja Renganathan - April 9, 2019 - 136 views

As businesses strive to rapidly build and release new applications and functionalities to market, microservices are becoming a key part of the enterprise application roadmap. Containerization technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes have made microservices architectures easier to use and thus more popular and widely accepted. Adopting a microservices architecture offers many business benefits, including […]

Bruce Rogow - April 4, 2019 - 87 views

As I meet with executives from enterprises seeking digital enhancement, many suggest that in order to achieve material value from new digital services, offerings and technologies, they need to balance two factors: the pace of the initiative and “the realization horizon.” My previous blog discussed pacing. From there, it becomes critical to utilize realization horizons. […]

Anbu Muppidathi - April 2, 2019 - 331 views

When working with modern technologies, the use of legacy design principles will only yield short-term benefits. The end result may satisfy purely functional needs, but it often falls short of truly addressing human behaviors and desires. For this reason, many organizations are turning to data-driven design. By applying analytics to how users navigate systems and […]

Risto Miikkulainen - March 28, 2019 - 237 views

Deep neural networks (DNN) have produced groundbreaking results in many complex applications of AI, such as natural language processing, facial recognition, sentiment analytics and object recognition. For instance, the accuracy of Google’s machine translation system improved 60% using a DNN approach. Finding the right network architecture – that is, the components of the network and […]

Donna Tuths - March 26, 2019 - 412 views

Consider this: according to Gartner, by next year 89% of companies will compete primarily on experience, and those that excel at experience will be five times more valuable than those that don’t. What do we mean when we use the word experience, and how is it different from traditional forms of marketing? You can think […]

Prashanth Bhushan - March 26, 2019 - 139 views

Internet connectivity is now ubiquitous, creating what many call a “network of everything.” Digital capabilities are designed into virtually every new product, from land mobile radios used by law enforcement to connected medical wearables to jet engines that collect their own data, diagnose issues, perform updates and predict maintenance to maximize equipment availability and optimize […]