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Reports from the Cutter Consortium
Bungee Jumping ... System Style: The Risks Complexity Brings to SystemsOrr, 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
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
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
Zen and the Art of the New Social CRM
Love, Jim | Executive Reports | 01 April 2010 | Business-IT Strategies
A new generation of customer relationship management (CRM) is emerging. Social CRM brings the promise of Web 2.0 together with the allure of social networks. Is this a breakthrough for CRM? Or is it just another case of overpromise and underdeliver? In this Executive Report by Jim Love, we take you through the practical issu...
April 1, 2010, Cutter Consortium: Enterprise Suite
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
Documentation Strategies in Agile Environments
Elssamadisy, Amr | Executive Reports | 01 February 2010 | Agile Project Management
Documentation is one of those unclear and foggy issues in the agile community. How much documentation should we create and maintain? The intent of this Executive Report by Amr Elssamadisy is to describe different document categories, how they directly affect the success of software development teams, and how to s...
April 1, 2010, Cutter Consortium: Agile Product & Project Management
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
Mobilizing for a (Mostly) Mobile Future
Clarke, Roger | Executive Reports | 01 March 2010 | Business-IT Strategies
People born in the last two decades have grown up with electronic devices in their hands. Their patterns of device use, thought, and behavior are different from those of previous generations. As they become customers and employees, they expect to be able to interact with people and organizations using the devices and int...
March 1, 2010, Cutter Consortium: Enterprise Suite
Business Intelligence and Networks of Things and People
Di Maio, Paola | Executive Reports | 01 March 2010 | Business Intelligence
The overall mission of operational and business intelligence (BI) is to make sense of and to strategically leverage data and information, much of which can be unstructured. In the near future, thanks to the proliferation of sensor-based information networks, the typical opportunities and challenges linked to knowledge mi...
March 1, 2010, Cutter Consortium: Business Intelligence
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
The 2010s: Is Your Staff Ready?
The Cutter Business Technology Council | Executive Reports | 01 February 2010 | Business Technology Trends & Impacts
What will the 2010s bring? It is not easy to look into the future; however, CIOs will have to do just that if they want to build and mold a staff capable of taking on the new challenges coming with this decade. CEOs and CIOs have many responsibilities and priorities, but the two ...
February 1, 2010, Cutter Consortium: Business Technology Trends & Impacts
Agile in Practice: A Composite Approach
Unhelkar, Bhuvan | Executive Reports | 01 January 2010 | Agile Project Management
This Executive Report by Bhuvan Unhelkar presents the Composite Agile Method and Strategy (CAMS) as an all-encompassing approach to the use of agile principles and practices across processes at various levels within the organization. CAMS involves such process elements as business management (e.g., Six Sigma), pro...
January 1, 2010, Cutter Consortium: Agile Product & Project Management
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
EA at 23: Allowed in the Bar, But Still Being Carded
Baudoin, Claude R. | Executive Reports | 01 January 2010 | Enterprise Architecture
Enterprise architecture (EA) can be traced back to 1987 and has continually evolved ever since. In this Executive Report by Claude R. Baudoin, we look at the state of EA today, including the frameworks that have evolved in the last few years, the challenge of business-IT alignment, business process management (BPM...
January 1, 2010, Cutter Consortium: Enterprise Architecture
How Not to Run an IT Project: A Case Study
Simon, Phil | Executive Reports | 01 January 2010 | Business Intelligence
The reasons for, and statistics on, IT project failures are well known and cited. However, because so many organizations attempt to hide their dirty laundry, rarely do we see an insider's account of the precise points at which a project derailed. In this Executive Report by Phil Simon, a case study is utilized to examine ...
January 1, 2010, Cutter Consortium: Business Intelligence
How to Write a Bulletproof Project Overview Statement
Wysocki, Robert K. | Executive Reports | 01 December 2009 | Agile Project Management
In this Executive Report by Robert K. Wysocki, we examine the project overview statement (POS) -- the first document you create as part of the process for getting approval of a new proposed project. If done right, the POS can have a positive impact on executive management support, meaningful client involvement,...
December 1, 2009, Cutter Consortium: Agile Product & Project Management
SOA: Understanding the Practice 2010 -- Creating Business-Driven Services
Hazra, Tushar K. | Executive Reports | 01 November 2009 | Enterprise Architecture
Many may say that service-oriented architecture (SOA) is not the "next big thing" in 2010 and beyond. However, to arrive at the future of SOA and all its potential, the time to act is now -- build business services today. SOA can make your business agile and help you adapt to the transformational changes of busine...
November 1, 2009, Cutter Consortium: Enterprise Architecture
Unbalanced Priorities
Blitstein, Ron; The Cutter Business Technology Council | Executive Reports | 01 November 2009 | Business Technology Trends & Impacts
Companies have pursued efficiency, economies of scale, and mass markets at the expense of products that excite consumers and promote loyalty. The upside has been declining unit-cost curves, which have allowed products to reach consumers at prices more affordable t...
November 1, 2009, Cutter Consortium: Business Technology Trends & Impacts
The End of the Internet Static Age: Desperately Seeking Search 3.0
Ummel, Mitchell | Executive Reports | 01 October 2009 | Business Technology Trends & Impacts; Business Intelligence
Barriers to the continual refinement of today's traditional search engine model are looming as the Internet continues to grow exponentially, as the information signal-to-noise ratio continues to shrink, and as we embrace the emerging Web 3.0 era, which is characterized by semantic...
October 1, 2009, Cutter Consortium: Business Technology Trends & Impacts
Data Security Implications for New Enterprise Architectures
Cohen, Beth | Executive Reports | 01 October 2009 | Enterprise Architecture
Data integrity and confidentiality have long relied on a combination of network- and application-based security. As enterprise architecture (EA) becomes more complex, data is progressively more integrated within massive data warehouses and distributed architectures. In addition, sensitive business data is increasingly b...
October 1, 2009, Cutter Consortium: Enterprise Architecture
Making Agile "Sticky": Strategies for Long-Term Success with Agile Adoption
Elssamadisy, Amr | Executive Reports | 01 October 2009 | Agile Project Management
If you are experiencing problems with your agile adoption initiatives, you are not alone. However, with experience we've seen common attributes and behaviors emerge that you can employ to increase your chances of agile success -- as well as to avoid failure. This Executive Report by Amr Elssamadisy focuses on thes...
October 1, 2009, Cutter Consortium: Agile Product & Project Management
The Key to Managing "Fuzzy" Projects
Wysocki, Robert K. | Executive Reports | 01 September 2009 | Agile Project Management
In this Executive Report, I provide a strategy for the effective management of "fuzzy" projects. A fuzzy project is any project where the goal, the solution, or both are not clearly defined. Managing such high-risk projects is challenging. The most important things to remember are to understand the degree to w...
September 1, 2009, Cutter Consortium: Agile Product & Project Management
Code Blue for IT Innovation
Austin, Rob; Ellyn, Lynne; The Cutter Business Technology Council | Executive Reports | 01 December 2008 | Innovation; Business Technology Trends & Impacts
Today's harsh economic realities threaten to drive the creative spirit from IT organizations, throttling back the flow of capital and new ideas; the innovation agenda in IT is on life support.
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July 21, 2009, Cutter Consortium: Innovation
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