Announcing the completely retooled Cutter Benchmark Review !

Based on your feedback, we have completely retooled Cutter Benchmark Review ( CBR ) to provide you with even more benefits and insight. Subscribers to CBR still receive data upon which they can benchmark their organization and expert insight and analysis of that data, but now each issue's contributing authors -- an academic and a practitioner "in the field" -- will analyze the same set of data so subscribers receive multiple viewpoints, enabling you to make decisions based on a broad range of fact, advice, and experience.

In addition, we're pleased to announce a brand new Editor for CBR , Dr. Gabriele Piccoli, a Senior Consultant with Cutter's Business-IT Strategies practice and an assistant professor of Information Systems at the School of Hotel Administration at Cornell University.

About CBR's new Editor, Gabriele Piccoli

Dr. Piccoli is uniquely qualified to bring you the highest level of analysis of the current trends and hot-button issues you face each day as a business technology professional. In addition to Cutter's Business-IT Strategies, Gabe's research has appeared in Cutter's Business IT Strategies practice, MIS Quarterly, Decision Sciences Journal, MIS Quarterly Executive, Communications of the ACM, Harvard Business Review, The DATABASE for Advances in Information Systems, and The Cornell Hotel and Restaurant Administration Quarterly, as well as other academic and applied journals. Each month, Gabe hand picks renowned academics and expert practitioners such as Cutter Consortium Senior Consultants Bob Benson, Mike Rosen, and Tim Lister, Dorothy Leidner from Baylor University, Mary Culnan from Bentley College, and Rick Watson from the University of Georgia. Together they go through a rigorous vetting process to ensure that the topics and how they're drilled into yield insightful analysis. The data, woven together with current-day experiences, and a prediction of future implications provides you with an understanding of the issues allowing you to make informed business decisions.

Upcoming Topics

Take a look at what you'll receive in upcoming issues of the new Cutter Benchmark Review :

• Open Source Software with Senior Cutter Consortium Consultant Jason Matthews, Rick Watson from the University of Georgia, and expert practitioner Marie-Claude Boudreau
• New Technology Trends to Watch with Senior Cutter Consortium Consultants, Tim Lister and Lou Mazzucchelli and Dennis Adams from the University of Houston
  
  
• Data Privacy with expert practitioner Alan Chapell and Mary Culnan from Bentley College
  
  
• Knowledge Management with Senior Cutter Consortium Consultant Karl Wiig and Dorothy Leidner from Baylor University
  
  
• Security with expert practitioner Jeff Schiller and Richard Baskerville from Georgia State University

Like all analysis, opinion, and advice from Cutter, Cutter Benchmark Review gives you a direct line to today's thought leaders. With CBR, your organization benefits from the unique opportunity to glean insight from the cutting-edge ideas being studied in some of the world's leading educational institutions, as well as the perspective that only seasoned experts with hands-on experience solving real problems in real enterprises can provide.

We value your input. If you have any ideas or suggestions for future Cutter Benchmark Review issues, please contact CBR's Managing Editor, Cindy Swain at cswain@cutter.com.

We look forward to continuing to serve you.