Consulting and Training

Cutter Consortium offers advice and guidance from world-renowned consultants. Our expertise and credentials are unmatched by any other service provider. And unlike many other consulting firms that use senior partners to sell a job but then assign junior staff to actually perform the work at the customer's site, Cutter deploys only its expert Senior Consultants, Fellows, and Technical Coaches - the very same people who refine the engagement with you - on every assignment. Our approach is collaborative: we can draw from our more than 150 best-in-class consultants to assemble the ideal team, uniquely suited to your needs, comprising individuals with diverse skills, experience, and styles, to help your organization tackle any challenge that might arise. At Cutter, we offer consulting is lots of different shapes and sizes:

Access to the Experts Inquiry Program

Cutter's Access to the Experts program, every single inquiry is fielded by a Cutter Senior Consultant, Fellow, or Faculty member with hands-on experience addressing IT challenges at enterprises and organizations worldwide. You get astute analysis, insight, and tested answers to your questions, unlike those you'd get in any other inquiry program. Read some case studies.

Video Consulting

The only thing tighter than your budget is your schedule. Cutter's video consulting, saves you precious time and money and you still get the same expert advice and analysis Cutter always provides. From participating in a presentation to sharing your documents and applications, stakeholder interviews, and real-time collaboration, Cutter's Video Consulting is the next-best-thing to bringing these consultants to your location to accomplish your goals.

Team Consulting

Cutter has pioneered, with great success, Team Consulting engagements. With Team Consulting, a group of Cutter consultants work together on a complex, multi-dimensional problem that crosses “specialty” lines. This approach is surprisingly cost-effective, thanks to tight organization, automated collaboration tools, and Cutter’s ability to call upon just the right people for the task from its community of experts. You get the individual and collective wisdom of a diverse team of thought leaders.

Short-term Strategic Consulting

Put Cutter's experts' deep experience to work helping you formulate your strategy, perform assessments, understand how cutting-edge technologies can fit into your current plan and culture, and more. Cutter's subject- and domain-area expertise is unparalleled, ranging from developing an enterprise architecture plan to benchmarking software development processes; identifying business performance management dashboards, working with IT strategic planning committees to conduct due diligence, analyzing sourcing strategies, and more. Read some case studies.

Consulting Support for Major Change Initiatives

Major initiatives, like transitioning to an Agile enterprise, beginning an enterprise architecture program, or making a cultural shift towards innovation and agility, require on-and-off support over longer periods of time. Unlike other consulting groups, Cutter doesn't move into your office. We provide ongoing guidance and support as necessary. From conducting needs and/or gap analyses, to creating implementation plans, training, coaching, providing risk and change management support and whatever else is required, Cutter can be your trusted partner for any major project implementation or strategic change. Read some case studies.

On-Site Training

Our extensive curriculum of more than 60 in-house workshops, developed and presented by our Senior Consultants, can be customized to meet your organization's needs. Our training offerings run the gamut from technical programs like test-driven development to developing the skills of your organization's next generation of leaders.

Team Coaching and Facilitation

Our technical coaches are seasoned, hands-on experts: they work in your organization to ensure that newly adopted skills, from XP to agile project management, become ingrained in your culture. They also serve as expert members of your team, contributing its output. Cutter's expert facilitators bring a positive perspective to project chartering sessions, post-mortems, and any potentially contentious meeting or discussion, guiding groups toward consensus as they help teams gel. Read some case studies.

Executive Coaching and Mentoring

Cutter's top experts are available to advise senior executives on an ongoing basis through Cutter's mentoring services. Select consultants also provide executive coaching, focusing on areas as diverse as leadership and innovation. Read some case studies.