In a study in pigs, the researchers showed that devices made with this light-sensitive hydrogel can be triggered to break down after being exposed to blue or ultraviolet light from a small LED. “We are developing a set of systems that can reside in the gastrointestinal tract, and as part of that, we’re looking to develop different ways in which we can trigger the disassembly of devices in the GI tract without the requirement for a major procedure,” says Giovanni Traverso, an assistant professor of mechanical engineering, a gastroenterologist at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, and the senior author of the study. Incorporating this material into medical devices could avoid many endoscopic procedures and would give doctors a faster and easier way to remove devices when they are no longer needed or are not functioning properly, the researchers say. The new approach is based on a light-sensitive hydrogel that the researchers designed. However, MIT engineers have now come up with a way to trigger such devices to break down inside the body when they are exposed to light from an ingestible LED. Many of these have to be removed by endoscopic surgery once their job is done. We will discuss this in the next post.A variety of medical devices can be inserted into the gastrointestinal tract to treat, diagnose, or monitor GI disorders. Beyond decision-making, Business Architecture can also facilitate the actual execution of the new agile service delivery model. ICT Infrastructure is consistently pushed to become open, resilient, self-healing, scalable.īusiness Architecture coordinates all these evolutions, ensuring that investments will actually deliver the desired business outcome. The new mode of operations is open and collaborative, goes by fast cycles delivering incremental functionality, which allows for adaptive “fail-fast” approach with limited risk.įor example, Amazon makes a production change every 11 seconds, Google deploys over 2 billion containers each week, Netflix launched simultaneously in 131 countries (source: state of DevOps report 2015). Thanks to digital technologies, operations are going to be automated, simplified, precisely informed, promptly reactive and even predictive.
Operation had been revolutionized by digital disruptors in terms of agility, personalization, innovation speed. In order to help focus, Huawei has encoded the key principles of experience as “ROADS” (Real-time, On-demand, All-online, DIY, Social).įor example, customers of digital service providers typically will learn about new services through their social network, will want to be empowered to subscribe and consume their services in real-time when they need it, typically through app or portal. Digital businesses deliver experience to them through products, services and their combination, individually or as part of an ecosystem. Each one of these involves its own challenges that have to be addressed holistically.Įxperience is the ultimate front-end between a digital business and its users, customers, partners, employees. According to Huawei practice, digital business entails three constituents driving (left to right) and enabling (right to left) each other: experience, operations and (ICT) infrastructure.
Giovanni’s speech introduced the O-BA standard and illustrated how it can serve governments and businesses striving to become “digital”.įirst, we should characterize what is digital transformation is about. It does so on one hand, by aligning all aspects and actors of a transformation with business vision and goals while, on the other hand, answering the business questions regarding structural investments, especially in ICT. The O-BA standard focuses on transformation as a discipline to support business decision-making and bridge business and ICT. Giovanni, who is leading this effort within Huawei, presented Huawei’s perspectives on Business Architecture coming from best practices. Huawei was a Diamond Sponsor of this summit, is a Platinum Member of The Open Group and is participating in the creation of the O-BA standard, whose first part was launched in July 2016 as a Preliminary Standard. Part 1 – The Digital Transformation Challenges
Giovanni Traverso, Chief Business Architect of HUAWEI Service Strategy and Architecture Practice, to give a keynote speech “New Open Business Architecture (O-BA) to Support the Construction of Digital Business and Smart Government”. At The Open Group Shanghai 2016 summit, we invited Dr.
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