The rate of innovation in today’s digital world often seems to be outpacing the implementation of the tools.  To help understand the most effective solutions to today’s biggest digital tool challenges Thom Singer and Craig Brown are joined by SBE VIsion President and CTO David Vredenburgh.  SBE Vision works to solve the world’s toughest engineering problems, from overcoming information silos to keeping up with today’s pace of innovation and implementing AI in data configuration, you won’t want to miss these lessons learned from one of the industry's leading experts. 

 

On today’s podcast, you will learn:

A tool development approach that works 

• The centralized control of information is not as effective as it once was. 
• Overcoming information silos will require an updated approach to data and tool management. 
• The constantly increasing pace of digital innovation has created an abundance of tools that need proper management.
• Focused innovation is essential for continued business growth. 

 

An agile approach to configuration

• Effective information correlation requires solving both semantic problems and configuration problems.
• Building the next prototype is not always the best next step in configuration. 
• Overcoming such hurdles will require key collaborations of many smart people. 

 

Lessons learned from the developing tools in the defense industry 

• Configuration in the defense industry presents a unique set of challenges. 
• Solving these problems will require advanced technologies coupled with very smart people. 
• Regardless of who solves the most difficult problems, they will be solved. 
• The pace of innovation seems to have slowed only because the complexity of systems has grown exponentially.  
•  There is a direct correlation between high quality data sets and high quality results. 
• AI plays a critical role in today’s effective data configuration. 
• It is essential to focus on the end user with every system that is created.

 

Career advice from a CTO

• Never stop learning as much as you can about the topics surrounding your position. 
• Software engineers continue to be in incredibly high demand around the world.

 

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