Cutter Benchmark Review Editorial Calendar

2009 | 2008 | 2007 | 2006 | 2005 | 2004 | 2003

Each month, Dr. Gabriele Piccoli 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.

2009

Month Topic Guest Authors
September 2009 IT Governance Dennis Adams (UHouston), Bob Benson/Tom Bugnitz
August 2009 IT Budgeting Dennis Adams (UHouston), Bob Benson/Tom Bugnitz
July 2009 Personal Productivity Systems Joe Feller (University College Cork, Ireland), Jared Goralnick
June 2009 Life Is Service: Even for the IT Shop Geneviève Bassellier (McGill)/Ron Cenfetelli (Sauder School of Business, UBritish Columbia); Bob Furniss
May 2009 Unlocking the Organizational Potential of Social Networking Mary J. Culnan (Bentley University, USA); David Coleman, Senior Consultant, Cutter Consortium
April 2009 Cloud Computing and Software as a Service: The Hyper, the Hype, and the Facts Aurelio Ravarini (Università "Carlo Cattaneo" Italy)/ Luca Mari (Università Cattaneo – LIUC, Castellanza [VA], Italy); Jeff Kaplan, Senior Consultant, Cutter Consortium
March 2009 Mobile Technologies: Harnessing the Potential of the Anytime/Anywhere Future Katia Passerini (NJIT), Bhuvan Unhelkar
February 2009 Digital Data Genesis in Manufacturing and Beyond Claudio Vitari (Grenoble Ecole de Management, France), David J. Caruso, Senior Consultant, Cutter Consortium
January 2009 IT Trends for 2009 Dennis Adams Professor and Chair of the Decision and Information Sciences Department at the University of Houston, and Jeroen van Tyn, Senior Consultant, Cutter Consortium

2008

Month Topic Guest Authors
December 2008 IT-enabled Services Ron Cenfetelli (Sauder School of Business, UBritish Columbia); Peter McGarahan
November 2008 Project Management Kathryn Brohman (Queen's School of Business, Canada); Carl Pritchard
October 2008 Management of IT Talent Jo Ellen Moore and Mary Sue Love (both Southern Illinois University Edwardsville); Tim Stone
September 2008 Web Quality Eleanor Loiacono (Worcester Polytechnic Institute), Martin Bauer
August 2008 Strategic Orientation of IT Executives Leyland F. Pitt, Professor of Marketing, Segal Graduate School of Business, Simon Fraser University (Canada); Pierre Berthon, Clifford F. Youse Chair of Marketing, Bentley College (USA); Richard T Watson, J. Rex Fuqua Distinguished Chair for Internet Strategy, University of Georgia (USA); Christine Davis, Fellow, Cutter Consortium
July 2008 The Intricacy of IT Budgeting: Is the Glass Half Full? Dennis A. Adams, Chair of the Decision and Information Sciences Department, C.T. Bauer College of Business, University of Houston (USA), and Robert J. Benson and Thomas L. Bugnitz, Senior Consultants, Cutter Consortium
June 2008 Seeing the Future: Proliferating Data Sources and Forecasting Techniques Make It Possible Monica Adya, Assistant Professor of Management, Marquette University, and Russell Lloyd, Senior Lecturer, Operations Management, Cornell University School of Hotel Administration
May 2008 Green IT Rick Watson and Marie-Claude Boudreau (University of Georgia), Emily Ryan
April 2008 Enterprise Agility Alan MacCormack (Harvard Business School), Lou Mazzucchelli/Tim Lister
March 2008 Mashups: Strategic and Technological Issues for Corporate Use Charalampos Patrikakis, A.S. Voulodimos, and G.V. Taskasaplidis; Stefan Andreasen
February 2008 Creating Better Business Cases for IT Projects John Ward (Cranfield Univ, UK) and Elizabeth Daniel (OU Business School, UK), Mike Sisco
January 2008 IT Trends for 2008 Dennis Adams, Professor and Chair of the Decision and Information Sciences Department at the University of Houston, and Jeroen van Tyn

2007

Month Topic Guest Authors
January 2007 Trends for 2007: Looking Back to Look Ahead Dennis Adams, Professor and Chair of the Decision and Information Sciences Department at the University of Houston; Jeroen van Tyn, Senior Consultant, Cutter Consortium
February 2007 Web 2.0: A New Approach to the Web ... or Not? Joe Feller, Professor, Accounting, Finance, and Information Systems, University of College Cork, Ireland; Tom Welsh, Senior Consultant, Cutter Consortium
March 2007 E-learning: Future Developments and the Potential for Modern Organizations Katia Passerini (NJIT), Lance Dublin
April 2007 CIO Leadership Rick Watson and Elena Karahanna (UGeorgia), Bipin Patel
May 2007 Massive Multiplayer Games: Potential and Challenges for Business Organizations Blake Ives and Dennis Adams (UHouston), Tony O'Driscoll
June 2007 Wake Up and Be Prepared: Preventing a Full-Blown Crisis Tom Horan (Claremont Graduate U), Rebecca Herold
July 2007 Making Agility Stick: What’s Working, What’s Not Laurie Williams (North Carolina State U), Sam Bayer
August 2007 Budgets Dennis Adams (UHouston), Bob Benson and Tom Bugnitz
September 2007 The State of Business Intelligence Rajiv Sabherwal, Vince Kellen
October 2007 Offshoring and Skill Sets Steve Hawk, Phil Zwieg
November 2007 Strategic IT + Dynamic Capabilities Paul Pavlou (Univ California-Riverside), Bob Benson and Tom Bugnitz
December 2007 Open Innovation Joe Feller of University College Cork, Ireland, and Ana Pereira

2006

Month Topic Guest Editors
January 2006 Data Privacy Alan Chapell, President of Chapell & Associates and a widely recognized thought leader on issues of privacy, consumer perception, and interactive marketing; and Mary Culnan, Professor of Management and Information Systems at Bentley College
February 2006 New Technology Trends to Watch Cutter Consortium Business Technology Council Fellows Tim Lister and Lou Mazzucchelli, and Dennis Adams, Chair of the University of Houston's Decision Information Sciences Department
March 2006 Knowledge Management Cutter Consortium Senior Consultant Karl Wiig and Dr. Dorothy E. Leidner, Professor of Information Systems and Director of the Center for Knowledge Management at Baylor University
April 2006 Content Management: How to Be Content With Your Solution Aurelio Ravarini, Director of CETIC, Research Center on Information Systems, Università Carlo Cattaneo, Italy and Brad Kain, President and Cofounder, Quoin Inc.; Senior Consultant, Cutter Consortium
May 2006 IT Innovation After a Recession: Where Do We Go from Here? George Westerman, Research Scientist, MIT's Center for Information Systems Research; Lee Devin, Professor of Theater Emeritus, Swarthmore College; Author
June 2006 Wireless Systems Munir Mandviwalla, Associate Professor and Founding Chair of Management Information Systems, Temple University; Michael Enright, President, Hamilton Technology Advisors; Senior Consultant, Cutter Consortium
July 2006 The Virtual Team Is the New Team: Get Ready to Manage It Carol Stoak Saunders, Professor of Management Information Systems, College of Business Administration, University of Central Florida; Sid Henkin, VP, Market Innovation for Prism Learning Solutions; Senior Consultant, Cutter Consortium
August 2006 The Intricacy of IT Budgeting: How to Make the Most of a Complex Process Dennis A. Adams, Associate Dean of Graduate and Professional Programs, C.T. Bauer College of Business, University of Houston; Robert J. Benson Principal, The Beta Group; Senior Consultant, Cutter Consortium; Thomas L. Bugnitz, President, The Beta Group; Senior Consultant, Cutter Consortium; William B. Walton Principal, The Beta Group; Senior Consultant, Cutter Consortium
September 2006 Does Best Practice Makes Perfect? Erica Wagner, Assistant Professor, Information Systems, School of Hotel Administration, Cornell University; Sue Newell, Cammarata Professor of Management, Bentley College; Visiting Professor of Management at Royal Holloway, University of London; William M. Ulrich President and Founder, Tactical Strategy Group, Inc.; Senior Consultant, Cutter Consortium
October 2006 Service-Oriented Architecture: Old Wine in New Bottles or a Critical Tool for the Organization? Andy Schwarz, Assistant Professor, Information Systems and Decision Sciences Department, E.J. Ourso College of Business, Louisiana State University (LSU); Rudy Hirschheim, Ourso Family Distinguished Professor, Information Systems and Decision Sciences Department, E.J. Ourso College of Business, LSU; Michael Rosen, Director, Enterprise Architecture Practice, Cutter Consortium
November 2006 Alignment: The Never-Ending Balancing Act Rajiv Sabherwal, University of Missouri Curators Professor; Emery C. Turner Professor of Information Systems, College of Business Administration, University of Missouri-St. Louis; Kenneth G. Rau, Managing Partner, The Winchester Services Group; Senior Consultant, Cutter Consortium
December 2006 Mainframe Skill Kate Kaiser, Associate Professor of Management, Marquette University; Phil Zwieg, Principal, Z-Sharp, LLC

2005

Issue Title
January 2005 What We Talk About When We Talk About IT Spending
February 2005 Achieving the Benefits and Minimizing the Costs of BPM
March 2005 Metrics: Enabling Decision-Making Agility
April 2005 Leadership: In IT and Beyond
May 2005 MDA in the Balance
June 2005 Sourcing: Making the Relationship Work
July 2005 Sarbanes-Oxley: Will It Ever End?
August 2005 When Benchmarking Fits and When it Doesn't
September 2005 Current Developments in IT Security and Risk Management
October 2005 The Business Value of Customer Data
November 2005 It's Your Responsibility: Managing the Transition to Open Source Software
December 2005 Security and Risk Management: The Never-Ending Game of Chess

2004

Issue Title
January 2004 Trends in Corporate IT Spending: A Permanent Change Or a Pause to Digest?
February 2004 Project Management: Part I -- Methods, Models, and Practices
March 2004 Project Management: Part II -- Skills and Morale
April 2004 Enterprise Information Portals: Resolving the Identity Crisis
May 2004 Information Security: Awareness Is Spreading, but Not Fast Enough
June 2004 Strategies for Sourcing: In, Out, and Offshore
July 2004 Skills Today, Gone Tomorrow
August 2004 Service-Oriented Architecture: Excitement, Value, and Confusion
September 2004 IT Governance and the Business-IT Relationship
October 2004 How to Make Teamwork in IT Effective
November 2004 Software Modeling: At the Cutting Edge
December 2004 Open Source Software Adoption And Effectiveness in IT

2003

Issue Title
January 2003 Burnout, Organizational Slack, and IT Capability
February 2003 Real-Time Visibility, Enterprise-Wide: Are We There Yet?
March 2003 Project Management Revisited
April 2003 The Serious But Unfinished Business of Software Quality
May 2003 Managing IT Innovation: Spotting the Next Big Thing
June 2003 An Update on Web Services: Better Definitions, Expanding Use
July 2003 Business Process and IT Outsourcing: The Momentum Mounts
August 2003 Software Testing: A Field in Transition
September 2003 ERP: Checking the Status on Benefits
October 2003 Trends and Issues in Data Mining
November 2003 An Update on Software Modeling: Practices and Patterns
December 2003 Preparing for the Next Digital Revolution
Cutter Benchmark Review Editorial Calendar