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Reports from the Cutter Consortium
Agile EA: Governance IntroductionWatson, Jim | Executive Reports |
This Executive Report explores processes in enterprise architecture governance to achieve improved agility using technology advancements in Maven and virtualization. The report describes approaches for enterprise situational awareness, agile systems integration, and dependency management, along with technology variants and innovation.
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January 13, 2012, Cutter Consortium: Agile Product & Project Management
Time Management for IT Leaders
Cohen, Moshe | Executive Reports | <br/><br/> As a manager and a leader it's imperative for you to develop good habits, systems, and strategies around time management, both for your own effectiveness and for the benefit of the people you lead. As we'll explore in this Executive Report, effective time management includes an awareness of how you spend your time as well as clarity regarding your ...
Cutter Consortium: Enterprise Suite
Creating Crowd Value: Taking the Next Step Beyond the Social Enterprise
Coleman, David | Executive Reports |
As a business leader you're probably just starting to contend with social networks in your business and often find them to be of questionable value. The "social enterprise" is being touted as the next big thing: the new way to do business and a "social" way to do business. But the next big thing in collaboration is crowds, not the social enterprise. Social...
January 3, 2012, Cutter Consortium: Business Technology Trends & Impacts
The Indoor Garden: Cultivating Openness Inside the Organization
Feller, Joseph | Executive Reports |
Over the last decade, we've been engaged in an exploration of open innovation, crowdsourcing, peer production (such as open source software and Wikipedia), and related phenomena. In this Executive Report, I examine what we've learned about (and from) these phenomena and explore how these lessons can be applied to knowledge sharing, information processing, ...
December 8, 2011, Cutter Consortium: Business Intelligence
Is Agile Shortchanging the Business?
Robertson, James; Robertson, Suzanne | Executive Reports |
Agile methods provide a very efficient way to develop software. But efficiency is not the point. As we explore in this Executive Report, the point is that in the rush to experience the virtues of this effective development method, and the excitement of the surrounding publicity, an important question is left unanswered: Does efficient...
November 29, 2011, Cutter Consortium: Agile Product & Project Management
Applying Decision Models to Resource Allocation in Network Security
Moitra, Soumyo | Executive Reports |
Making effective decisions regarding the allocation of resources for network security is a key part of business today. This Executive Report focuses on the relevant issues, including a number of questions that require special attention from CIOs and chief security officers (CSOs). The report presents the questions to be asked, offers ways of answering them...
November 7, 2011, Cutter Consortium: Enterprise Risk Management & Governance
Successful ROI with Agile and Lean Adoption
Elssamadisy, Amr | Executive Reports |
Agile and lean methods are a means to an end, and that end is increased capability and productivity for your teams and organizations. This leads directly to cost savings and revenue. All too often, however, adoption and transformation initiatives fail to lead to such results. In this Executive Report, you will read about the financial returns of successf...
September 22, 2011, Cutter Consortium: Agile Product & Project Management
Enterprise BI Architecture Groups: The Key to Effective Agile Data Warehousin...
Hughes, Ralph | Executive Reports |
Agile data warehousing delivers powerful BI applications in the shortest time frame possible, yet coordinating multiple fast-moving BI teams demands more than simple project management. Organizations need an enterprise business intelligence architecture (EBIA) function to coordinate high-level requirements, designs, and technologies in order to avoid ruinou...
September 13, 2011, Cutter Consortium: Business Intelligence
Enterprise Integration with the Business Architecture
Whittle, Ralph | Executive Reports |
This Executive Report describes the business architecture (BA) as an element linked to other enterprise elements to collectively form a structure focused on the customer. Several figures illustrate the formal integration with the IT architectures, business processes, and strategy. Built, implemented, and governed as a "reusable asset," the BA enables the e...
September 12, 2011, Cutter Consortium: Enterprise Architecture
Using Enterprise Architecture for Governance, Alignment, and SOX Compliance
Finkelstein, Clive | Executive Reports ::
In this Executive Report, I describe a practical approach utilizing enterprise architecture (EA) for rapid compliance with business governance requirements such as the US Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 (SOX). Throughout the report, I show how senior management can establish internal controls by using a governance analysis framework (GAF), which is used to...
August 29, 2011, Cutter Consortium: Enterprise Architecture
Is It Time to Radically Change Your Approach to CRM?
Love, Jim | Executive Reports | 22 August 2011 | Innovation; Business Intelligence; Business-IT Strategies
CRM continues to ride a growing wave of interest as businesses struggle to find any way to gain advantage in difficult markets and difficult economic situations. Companies have demanded, or at least pursued, strategies that I call the "Three Fs" (features, functions, and fads). Vendors ha...
August 22, 2011, Cutter Consortium: Innovation
Social Media and the Enterprise: Part I -- From Apprehension to Explosion
Baudoin, Claude R. | Executive Reports | 18 July 2011 | Business-IT Strategies; Business Intelligence
Social media, including but not limited to social networks, is no longer just where you spend your evenings when there is nothing on TV. As we'll explore in this two-part Executive Report series, it is now increasingly relevant not only to the professional life of your colleagues and employees...
August 18, 2011, Cutter Consortium: Business Intelligence
A Structured Approach to IT Cloud Migration
Cohen, Beth | Executive Reports | 20 July 2011 | Enterprise Architecture; Enterprise Risk Management & Governance; Business Intelligence
Migrating IT systems and infrastructure to cloud ecosystems cuts costs and improves service delivery. However, moving complex IT infrastructures directly to cloud architectures is not simple or easy. As discussed in this Executive Report, an enterprise needs...
July 20, 2011, Cutter Consortium: Enterprise Architecture
Transitioning to Agile and Complexity at Cisco VTG
Smits, Hubert; Rilliet, Kathleen | Executive Reports | 12 July 2011 | Agile Project Management
This Executive Report summarizes and explains the authors' work in implementing agile software development practices in the large and complex Cisco Voice Technology Group (VTG). The chosen solutions as well as the efforts required to implement them are discussed. The report follows John Kotter's 8 S...
July 12, 2011, Cutter Consortium: Agile Product & Project Management
Aligning Enterprise Architecture, Strategy, and Portfolio Management
Finkelstein, Clive | Executive Reports | 05 July 2011 | Business-IT Strategies; Enterprise Architecture; Business Intelligence
Success with enterprise architecture depends on strategy, rather than on existing business processes. This leads to the development of a strategic model of the enterprise as a "picture of the business" for management, while also being a high-level enterprise model for...
July 5, 2011, Cutter Consortium: Enterprise Architecture
Scaling Agile Technical Practices: Implementing Continuous Integration to Ena...
Golden, Jonathon M. | Executive Reports | 23 June 2011 | Agile Project Management
While concepts borrowed from lean manufacturing have long been associated with agile software development methodologies, they have become more en vogue recently. One of these concepts, Kanban, has emerged of late as an overused buzzword. Implementations of "Kanban" are appearing throughout the software industry ...
June 23, 2011, Cutter Consortium: Agile Product & Project Management
What Is a Complex Project Manager -- Really?
Wysocki, Robert K. | Executive Reports | 10 June 2011 | Agile Project Management
Despite their differences, there is one common link that all complex projects share: the need for a very special type of project manager, a person I call a "complex project manager." This family of professionals has not yet been formally defined. In this Executive Report, I present my thoughts on exactly who this ...
June 10, 2011, Cutter Consortium: Agile Product & Project Management
Corporate Cyber Attacks, Threats, and Security
Majumdar, Arun K. | Executive Reports | 19 May 2011 | Enterprise Risk Management & Governance
This Executive Report by Arun K. Majumdar provides executives, government workers, and security professionals a fast track to gaining insight into cyber security. It covers executive liabilities and accountabilities, the top eight cyber security cases, situational awareness, and a multitude of need-to...
May 19, 2011, Cutter Consortium: Enterprise Risk Management & Governance
Being a Collaborative Leader (and Getting Things Done)
Spann, David | Executive Reports | 13 May 2011 | Agile Project Management
Being a collaborative leader requires a clear set of beliefs and disciplined practices to back up those beliefs. If you are a leader who wants people to work together better, deliver results faster, and exceed basic customer satisfaction, you will need to look in the mirror and see how your behaviors compare to the colla...
May 13, 2011, Cutter Consortium: Agile Product & Project Management
Improving People and Processes: Lean-Agile, Systems Thinking, and the System ...
Maeda, Masa K. | Executive Reports | 18 April 2011 | Agile Project Management
Organizational improvements typically address localized ailing areas or enterprise-wide transformations. Low ROI and high risk are commonplace. Lean and agile adoption often adds value, but some organizations still struggle to improve. This Executive Report by Masa K. Maeda provides an alternative for improvement th...
April 18, 2011, Cutter Consortium: Agile Product & Project Management
Successful Application Modernization and Rationalization: Part II -- Long-Ter...
Estes, Don | Executive Reports | 18 April 2011 | Enterprise Architecture
In Part II of this two-part Executive Report series on modernization, author Don Estes focuses on strategies that deliver the greatest business value, examining both conventional and promising unconventional approaches in depth, with their respective pros and cons. Since conventionally modernized applications will inevit...
April 18, 2011, Cutter Consortium: Enterprise Architecture
Current Solutions for Unstructured Data
Dooley, Brian J. | Executive Reports | 24 February 2011 | Business Intelligence
Unstructured data, particularly text, makes up at least 80% of all corporate data and an incalculable amount of potentially relevant data on the Web. As we explore in this Executive Report by Brian J. Dooley, developing the capability to mine these information stores and apply the data to business processes is an i...
February 24, 2011, Cutter Consortium: Business Intelligence
The 12 Basic Tenets that Characterize Complex Project Management
Wysocki, Robert K. | Executive Reports | 01 October 2010 | Agile Project Management
In this Executive Report by Robert K. Wysocki, we explore in detail the 12 basic tenets that characterize complex project management (CPM). For readers new to CPM or those considering adopting some form of it, this report will provide an introduction to some of the differences as compared to what you are current...
October 1, 2010, Cutter Consortium: Agile Product & Project Management
The Emerging Risk Environment and What You Need to Know About It
Dooley, Brian J. | Executive Reports | 01 October 2010 | Enterprise Risk Management & Governance
In recent years, both the enterprise risk environment and enterprise security measures have evolved considerably. In this Executive Report by Brian J. Dooley, we look at how risk is now being brought into the fold of a unifying concept, enterprise risk management (ERM), which attempts to consolidate...
October 1, 2010, Cutter Consortium: Enterprise Risk Management & Governance
The Debate Surrounding Offshoring and Its Effect on Employment
Cullen, Sara; Gupta, Nupur; Manap, Madina; Rosales, Alejandro | Executive Reports | 01 August 2010 | Business Technology Trends & Impacts; Sourcing & Vendor Relationships
Although offshoring has existed in a variety of forms for decades, its controversy continues unabated. The debate includes whether offshoring actually saves money or not, what activities are and are not good candidates for off...
September 10, 2010, Cutter Consortium: Business Technology Trends & Impacts
Avoiding System Bankruptcy: How to Pay Off Your Technical Debt
Kolsky, Amir | Executive Reports | 01 September 2010 | Agile Project Management
In life we are all familiar with debt, especially financial debt. The longer a monetary debt is left unpaid, the more interest accrues. Eventually bankruptcy may be declared. Similarly, in software development, every time something is executed incorrectly, it may be thought of as technical debt. If the technical deb...
September 1, 2010, Cutter Consortium: Agile Product & Project Management
BI Unwired: The Case for Mobile BI
Hall, Curt | Executive Reports | 01 September 2010 | Business Intelligence
Corporate adoption of mobile BI -- the ability to access, view, and interact with corporate data on mobile devices such as smartphones and tablets via reports, interactive dashboards, visualizations, and ad hoc reporting -- was fairly limited for its first five years or so. Today, organizations are increasingly employing ...
September 1, 2010, Cutter Consortium: Business Intelligence
The Project Manager and the Business Analyst: A Dynamic Duo for Managing Comp...
Wysocki, Robert K. | Executive Reports | 01 June 2010 | Agile Project Management
This Executive Report by Robert K. Wysocki explores the collaborative relationship that can and should exist between a project manager (PM) and a business analyst (BA). Such a relationship assures the business sponsor and the client that the probability of delivering acceptable business value will increase as a res...
August 1, 2010, Cutter Consortium: Agile Product & Project Management
What Is a "Good" Project Manager?
Hall, Payson | Executive Reports | 01 August 2010 | Agile Project Management
The success of enterprises depends upon their ability to define, prioritize, and execute mission-critical projects successfully. Project management is essential, but which project managers (PMs) best serve the organization? This Executive Report by Payson Hall examines the diverse skills and knowledge necessary to mana...
August 1, 2010, Cutter Consortium: Agile Product & Project Management
KM in Perspective: The Dynamic Knowledge Synchronization Model
Unhelkar, Bhuvan | Executive Reports | 01 August 2010 | Business Intelligence
Knowledge synchronization is a crucial aspect of knowledge management (KM) that bridges the gap between the tacit, subjective knowledge stored in people's heads and the explicit, objective knowledge stored within the organization's IT systems. This Executive Report by Bhuvan Unhelkar presents the dynamic aspect of suc...
August 1, 2010, Cutter Consortium: Business Intelligence
Agile Business: The Final Frontier
Thomsett, Rob | Executive Reports | 01 July 2010 | Agile Project Management
The agile movement has reached a tipping point. It can either remain a powerful approach to software and business product development, or it can evolve and expand into an even more powerful business and cultural paradigm. In this Executive Report by Rob Thomsett, we will present an integrated model for business agility ...
July 1, 2010, Cutter Consortium: Agile Product & Project Management
The Emergence of Organizational Intelligence
Veryard, Richard | Executive Reports | 01 July 2010 | Business Intelligence
Organizational intelligence is a new way of looking at business improvement and survival, combining the latest management thinking with advanced software technologies to produce highly effective organizations. People and technology have complementary forms of intelligence, and in an intelligent organization these abilit...
July 1, 2010, Cutter Consortium: Business Intelligence
Achieving Business Benefits by Implementing Enterprise Risk Management
Sherringham, Keith; Unhelkar, Bhuvan | Executive Reports | 01 July 2010 | Enterprise Risk Management & Governance
The global financial crisis and the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico highlight the significance of risk in business and the need to embed capacities and capabilities for the management, mitigation, and response to risk. From the ownership of risk by company directors through managemen...
July 1, 2010, Cutter Consortium: Enterprise Risk Management & Governance
Achieving Real Value-Add From Your Business-Driven Enterprise Architecture: R...
Boettger, Skip | Executive Reports | 01 July 2010 | Enterprise Architecture
In astrophysics, dark matter is responsible for the universe not flying apart, thus encouraging the growth and stability of the universe's cohesiveness and structure. In the business-driven enterprise architecture (BDEA), the "dark matter" of the BDEA is what is ultimately responsible to ensure complete integrity and co...
July 1, 2010, Cutter Consortium: Enterprise Architecture
Bungee Jumping ... System Style: The Risks Complexity Brings to Systems
Orr, Ken; The Cutter Business Technology Council; Grochow, Jerrold; Margáin, Julio César | Executive Reports | 01 April 2010 | Business Technology Trends & Impacts
Society is becoming increasingly dependent on complex, technology-rich systems. With increased complexity comes increased potential for disaster, since we currently lack the ability to understand how such large-scale, interconnected ...
June 21, 2010, Cutter Consortium: Business Technology Trends & Impacts
Social Business Intelligence: Why Every Company Needs Social Media
Andriole, Stephen J.; Schiavone, Vince | Executive Reports | 01 June 2010 | Business Intelligence
This Executive Report by Steve Andriole and Vince Schiavone focuses on the roles that social media can play in the execution of your business strategies and the improvement of your business processes and models. The report describes a process that should lead to the optimization of social media in ...
June 1, 2010, Cutter Consortium: Business Intelligence
Has a Flat World Flattened Education, Too?
Scott, Robert D.; The Cutter Business Technology Council; Weis, Allan H.; Nolan, Richard L. | Executive Reports | 01 June 2010 | Business Technology Trends & Impacts
Colleges and universities are rapidly adopting online learning and other computer-based learning tools and techniques. The next generation of graduates will be computer savvy but not necessarily technically or socially competent. C...
June 1, 2010, Cutter Consortium: Business Technology Trends & Impacts
Agile SOA
Dooley, Brian J. | Executive Reports | 01 June 2010 | Enterprise Architecture; Agile Project Management
Service-oriented architecture (SOA) and agile software development have both evolved in recent years toward a combined concept of enterprise agility. Coming from different environments and differing in requirements, they are nonetheless founded in many of the same principles. Bringing them to...
June 1, 2010, Cutter Consortium: Agile Product & Project Management
Rational Economic Behavior and the Internet: Why You Want to Pay Per Packet
Mazzucchelli, Lou; The Cutter Business Technology Council; Weis, Allan H.; Rangaswami, JP | Executive Reports | 01 May 2010 | Business Technology Trends & Impacts
The current mode of flat-rate pricing for wired and wireless data communications discourages space-efficient software, encourages unlimited consumption, and is unsustainable. Rising capital and operating expenses to keep pace with inc...
May 1, 2010, Cutter Consortium: Business Technology Trends & Impacts
BI: Lessons for Business from the Sports World
Maurno, Dann A. | Executive Reports | 01 May 2010 | Business Intelligence
Today's BI providers struggle with lightning-fast data mining and presentation -- two things that sports intelligence providers have mastered. The announcer's teleprompter and on-screen graphics prove that information can be both instantaneous and engaging. The sports world has also mastered mining and refining historic d...
May 1, 2010, Cutter Consortium: Business Intelligence
The Art of Change: Fractal and Emergent
Malan, Ruth; Bredemeyer, Dana | Executive Reports | 01 May 2010 | Enterprise Architecture
This Executive Report by Ruth Malan and Dana Bredemeyer explores the role of enterprise and other architects in highly adaptive, innovative, and agile organizations. We consider the pressures on organizations to master the art of change and present a fractal metaphor for the tandem role of strategy and arc...
May 1, 2010, Cutter Consortium: Enterprise Architecture
Cloud Implications for Agile Development
Dooley, Brian J. | Executive Reports | 01 May 2010 | Agile Project Management
Cloud computing and agile development are complementary concepts that have come together in myriad ways to aid in the rapid development and deployment of software to meet real business requirements. Both are currently in a state of evolution, which is creating interesting synergies as the enterprise IT environment con...
May 1, 2010, Cutter Consortium: Agile Product & Project Management
Complex Event Processing: Technology, Products, and Applications
Hall, Curt | Executive Reports | 01 April 2010 | Business Intelligence
Complex event processing (CEP) monitors, aggregates, and analyzes large volumes of events in real (or near real) time across multiple data streams to offer instantaneous insight into live data on markets, transactions, customers, and operations -- thus enabling immediate response and better decision making based on timely in...
April 1, 2010, Cutter Consortium: Business Intelligence
Revolution in Software: Using Technical Debt Techniques to Govern the Softwar...
Gat, Israel | Executive Reports | 01 April 2010 | Agile Project Management
Recent advances in source code analysis techniques enable us to quantify technical debt. By so doing, software quality can be tied to cost and value through a common denominator: the dollar. This tie enables the governing of the software development process with great effectiveness at both the tactical and strategic leve...
April 1, 2010, Cutter Consortium: Agile Product & Project Management
Business Process Management: Cutter Glossary
Baudoin, Claude R. | Executive Reports | 01 April 2010 | Enterprise Architecture
Every discipline goes through a phase when the terminology is ambiguous or requires frequent explanations. Business process management (BPM) is currently in that immature state. Existing glossaries are often incomplete (or spill over to cover adjacent concepts), obsolete, biased toward a specific approach, or of li...
April 1, 2010, Cutter Consortium: Enterprise Architecture
And Now for Something Completely Different: IT Governance from a Relationship...
Lee, Laurence Lock | Executive Reports | 01 April 2010 | Enterprise Risk Management & Governance
Traditional process/compliance-centered approaches to IT governance have not proven totally effective against the general malaise of often poor return from IT investments. This Executive Report by Dr. Laurence Lock Lee offers a relationship-centered approach to IT governance as a profitable adjunct ...
March 1, 2010, Cutter Consortium: Enterprise Risk Management & Governance
EA as an Organizational Capability: Breaking Through the Glass Ceiling
Allen, Paul | Executive Reports | 01 March 2010 | Enterprise Architecture
There is an increasing realization that enterprise architecture (EA) cannot work in technological isolation but must work collaboratively as a capability within the culture of the organization. The EA team should act as one -- albeit key -- cog in the organizational engine with the overall goal of improving the effectiven...
March 1, 2010, Cutter Consortium: Enterprise Architecture
A Requirements Management Lifecycle that Works for Every Project
Wysocki, Robert K. | Executive Reports | 01 March 2010 | Agile Project Management
This Executive Report by Robert K. Wysocki defines a robust requirements management lifecycle (RMLC) that adapts to any project. The report begins with a bird's eye view of the RMLC and then gives a description of the project landscape. This allows for a foundation to discuss how the RMLC and the various project m...
March 1, 2010, Cutter Consortium: Agile Product & Project Management
Smart Grid Energized! A High-Voltage App on the Internet of Things
Ummel, Mitchell; Rosen, Mike; Orr, Ken | Executive Reports | 01 February 2010 | Enterprise Architecture
There's a digital revolution descending squarely upon an industry that time (and TCP/IP) nearly forgot: our aging, yet highly reliable, electric utility grid. The Smart Grid is to be borne upon the innovations and technologies of the Internet, melding with traditional electric utility generat...
February 1, 2010, Cutter Consortium: Enterprise Architecture
Enterprise Risk Management Framework: A Practical View
Doughty, Ken | Executive Reports | 01 January 2010 | Enterprise Risk Management & Governance
Enterprise risk management (ERM) facilitates management's desire to effectively manage the organization's risk and to create sustainable value to its stakeholders through capital growth and increased dividend stream. No organization operates in a risk-free environment, and ERM does not create such an en...
January 1, 2010, Cutter Consortium: Enterprise Risk Management & Governance
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