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Reports from the Cutter Consortium

Enterprise 3.0: How IT's All Going to Change
Andriole, Stephen J. | Executive Reports | 01 November 2009 | Business-IT Strategies

Enterprise 3.0 is about the radical changes that will move us away from talking about business technology alignment and closer to business technology convergence -- the inevitable outcome of technology, business, and management trends. This Executive Report by Steve Andriole explores both the specific changes w...
November 1, 2009, Cutter Consortium: Enterprise Suite

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

SOA Tipping Point
Rosen, Mike; The Cutter Business Technology Council | Executive Reports | 01 October 2009 | Business Technology Trends & Impacts

SOA has reached a tipping point in organizations' abilities to deliver business value.

http://www.cutter.com/content/trends/fulltext/reports/2009/10/index.html
October 1, 2009, Cutter Consortium: Business Technology Trends & Impacts

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

PII: You Don't Know Jack, But the Bad Guys Have His Personally Identifiable I...
Lister, Tim; The Cutter Business Technology Council | Executive Reports | 01 August 2009 | Business Technology Trends & Impacts

More major breaches have set the stage for regulations penalizing organizations when personal data in their files is compromised.

http://www.cutter.com/trends/fulltext/reports/2009/08/index.html
August 1, 2009, Cutter Consortium: Business Technology Trends & Impacts

Agile Service Orientation: Avoiding the "Ivory Tower"
Allen, Paul | Executive Reports | 01 August 2009 | Enterprise Architecture

A harsh economic recession calling for renewed cost reduction with an emphasis on tactical solution-delivery projects causes concern over the effectiveness of enterprise service-oriented architecture (SOA) and puts agile back in the limelight. SOA and agile methodologies are commonly seen as opposites, but opposites that...
August 1, 2009, Cutter Consortium: Enterprise Architecture

Lean and Portfolio Management: A Winning Combination in Trying Times
Love, Jim | Executive Reports | 01 August 2009 | Agile Project Management

Struggling with the age-old challenge of too much demand and not enough time and resources to do it all? We all know what the solution is: focus on those things that yield the greatest value for your organization. Fortunately, two major methodologies -- portfolio management and lean -- have emerged over the past decade th...
August 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.

http://www.cutter.com/content/trends/fulltext/rep...
July 21, 2009, Cutter Consortium: Innovation

E-Mail vs. the 21st Century
DeMarco, Tom; The Cutter Business Technology Council | Executive Reports | 01 July 2009 | Business Technology Trends & Impacts

E-mail -- the 20th century's killer app -- is running into serious resistance in the 21st. Young people in particular are communicating in niche media; thus, the entire domain of business communication is becoming more and more fragmented.

http://www.cutter.com/content/t...
July 1, 2009, Cutter Consortium: Business Technology Trends & Impacts

Living on the Web: Digital Life and Death in the Early 21st Century
Andriole, Stephen J. | Executive Reports | 01 May 2009 | Business Intelligence

Quite simply, the Web has a huge impact on our personal and professional lives. It will continue to do so, becoming the dominant platform for everything from communication to business transaction processing. Within a decade, the personal/professional merger will be complete with virtually no distinctions between what...
May 1, 2009, Cutter Consortium: Business Intelligence


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