3 Technologies Powering the Autonomic Enterprise

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Part I explored autonomy for the Enterprise-In-Motion. Key enablers include Digital Process Automation (DPA) and artificial intelligence, the nervous system.
This Part II focuses on three additional enablers for autonomy: Blockchains, edge computing, and Value-Stream-As-A-Service. Autonomy emanates from their combined transformational potential.

Take the generic manufacturing value stream example above, which at its core reflects the capabilities of Adaptive Digital Factories.

Moreover, blockchain enables decentralized applications and, even more importantly, Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAO). Since actual code is executed for running the organization, it leaves little to the imagination for the interpretation of the governing policies.

When it comes to autonomic IoT, the emerging connected devices trend is edge computing.

Blockchain within enterprises can also promote alternative flat organizational patterns. DAO allows participation by all shareholders, employees or other stakeholders to quickly agree and vote on decisions. Since actual code is executed for running the organization, it leaves little to the imagination for the interpretation of the governing policies.
When it comes to autonomic IoT, the emerging connected devices trend is edge computing.Increasingly, business logic and AI models are executing at the IoT edges. The actuators and sensors of connected devices often leverage gateways to connect to the Cloud. Connected devices and gateways are becoming ever more powerful in storage, computation, and networking optimizations.

Value-Stream-As-A-Service for Autonomy
Which brings us to the last – but perhaps most important – enabler. The Enterprise-In-Motion will achieve its autonomous objectives in the context of end-to-end value streams executing on the cloud.
As discussed in the VSaaS article, Value-Stream-As-A-Service is a new model for collaboration, involving multiple enterprises or business units.

In reality, VSaaS is an extended Enterprise-In-Motion. So the enterprise is extended: it includes parts and services obtained sometimes from organizations that are thousands of miles away.”

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