E-MailResource Centers
Cutter Consortium's Resource Centers provide unparalleled research, analysis, advice, and case studies from Cutter's teams of experts. With a license to the full suite or any combination of Cutter's Resource Centers, you'll have round-the-clock, fully searchable, online access to the Resource Centers' deliverables, such as monthly Executive Reports and Executive Summaries, a continuous flow Executive Updates, and E-Mail Advisors, and/or monthly Journals. In addition, client companies gain access to additional relevant research published by Cutter Consortium and receive print editions of many of the publications.
The Agile Product & Project Management Resource Center
Cutter Consortium's Agile Product & Project Management practice provides you with information and guidance — from experienced, hands-on Senior Consultants — to help you transition (or make the decision to transition) to agile methods. Led by Practice Director Jim Highsmith , Cutter's team of experts focuses on agile principles and traits — delivering customer value, embracing change, reflection, adaptation, etc. — to help you shorten your product development schedules, and increase the quality of your resultant products. Cutting edge ideas on collaboration, governance, and measurement/metrics are united with agile practices, such as iterative development, test-first design, project chartering, team collocation, onsite customers, sustainable work schedules, and others, to help your organization innovate and ultimately deliver high return-on-investment.
Business Intelligence
Cutter's BI practice addresses the full spectrum of business intelligence issues - everything from technology and product discussions to insight into organizational and cultural issues. Cutter's stellar team of experts provides strategic advice to help you transform your company's intellectual capital and knowledge assets, as well as your customer, sales, marketing, manufacturing, and financial data into meaningful reports, stories, and lessons to ensure business success. The content you get in the Business Intelligence Resource Center will show you how to turn data into one of the most important assets your company has, allowing you to make quick, insightful decisions that translate into increased profitability. Detailed discussions cover everything from portals to CRM to data mining to knowledge management, business performance and enterprise decision management, business semantics, data visualization, and more. Deliverables include monthly Executive Reports and Executive Summaries, twice-monthly Executive Updates, weekly E-Mail Advisors, and additional relevant research.
Business-IT Strategies
Business-IT Strategies focuses on the interface of business and IT interface; it's aimed at helping companies leverage IT for business success. The advice you get in this practice's deliverables will help you optimize your IT investments by ensuring you validate business requirements prior to making investments in technology, in technology acquisition strategies, and in day-to-day management of technology. The archives include a complete methodology for IT strategic planning, while current reports focus on organizational development for IT, business technology strategies, business modeling, risk management, business case development and other IT justification practices, and other topics key to senior IT executives. Deliverables include monthly Executive Reports and Executive Summaries, twice-monthly Executive Updates, weekly E-Mail Advisors, and additional relevant research.
Business Technology Trends & Impacts
The Business Technology Trends & Impacts (Trends) service is designed to ensure your company's strategic planning efforts are based on the most accurate forecasts available of the latest business technology trends. The service guarantees a continuous flow of valuable insights, clearly articulated opinions, and objective research from the Cutter Business Technology Council - some of the best thinkers in IT today: Rob Austin , Christine Davis , Tom DeMarco , Lynne Ellyn , Jim Highsmith , Tim Lister , Lou Mazzucchelli , Ken Orr , and Ed Yourdon . The key deliverable of this Resource Center is the Opinions that showcase the Council's unique method of collaborative forecasting: Opinions include the commentary of the individual Council members, including the strategic implications of the trend and advice on how enterprises can turn it to advantage. Opinions have dealt with topics ranging from the wireless Web to telecommuting as a competitive advantage, building a safe information-sharing culture to strategies for dealing with the aging IT workforce, the future of IT value creation to leveraging agile methodologies. Deliverables also include a weekly E-Mail Advisor and periodic Executive Updates.
Enterprise Architecture
The Enterprise Architecture service provides expert recommendations and advice on the best strategies and technologies to develop a robust, high-performance enterprise architecture and achieve true application integration. The service helps clients better manage their application portfolio, integrate information resources, take advantage of various EA frameworks, transition to a distributed enterprise architecture, cope with system challenges brought on by mergers and acquisitions, and stay current on emerging standards. Topics range from applying patterns to understanding component architectures to legacy transformation solutions, enterprise application integration, applying Model Driven Architecture, and creating a service-oriented architecture. Enterprise Architecture (EA) deliverables include monthly Executive Reports and Executive Summaries, twice-monthly Executive Updates, weekly E-Mail Advisors, and additional relevant research.
Enterprise Risk Management & Governance
The research provided by Cutter's Enterprise Risk Management & Governance (ERM&G) practice focuses on helping organizations assess their total risk spectrum and manage it as a whole. The top-level, critical, and objective advice will help your organization implement sound risk management and governance strategies that allow for innovation and profitability, even under the increasing pressures of compliance. From enterprise risk management frameworks to developing business continuity plans, identifying and managing operational and enterprise risk, achieving compliance with corporate governance directives, identifying IT security risk, understanding the impact of outsourcing on IT auditing, and more, you'll discover strategies for making better decisions, gaining the trust of corporate leaders, and creating a risk-taking culture that minimizes risk and maximizes valuable opportunities for your organization. ERM&G deliverables include monthly Executive Reports and Executive Summaries, twice-monthly Executive Updates, weekly E-Mail Advisors, and additional relevant research.
Innovation & Enterprise Agility
Innovation &Enterprise Agility has been designed to help your enterprise focus on value creation so it can leverage technology for business success. It provides a rich and comprehensive set of diagnostic tools - including research by Cutter Fellows and Senior Consultants, our exclusive Innovation Mapping methodology for making innovating a reliable process, and Inquiry Privileges with the Innovation team. Cutter's focus on innovation by iteration and the interdependence of team members has repeatedly proven successful in helping knowledge-based workers achieve the kinds of results that catapult firms ahead of their competitors.
Social Networking
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Sourcing & Vendor Relationships
The Consortium's Sourcing & Vendor Relationships service provides objective information, advice, and data that will enable your company to make sense of all sourcing options as well as manage all your vendor relationships - with outsourcing service providers and partners, as well as packaged application vendors - successful. You'll learn how to develop, implement, and manage a sourcing strategy that frees up scarce and expensive resources so you can concentrate on development projects that are crucial to gaining or maintaining a competitive edge. You'll discover how to negotiate agreements, navigate difficult conversations with ease, and choose the most appropriate vendor from a product, service and cultural perspective. Sourcing issues addressed include: making the right sourcing decision, structuring outsourcing contracts, relationship management, offshore outsourcing, ASPs, service levels, and other essentials. You'll be able to determine when sourcing - outsourcing, insourcing, partnerships - is the right option for you. Deliverables include Executive Reports and Executive Summaries, twice-monthly Executive Updates, weekly E-Mail Advisors, and additional relevant research.
IT Management/Cutter IT Journal
Cutter IT Journal is internationally known for its technical excellence and objective coverage of the vast strategic, managerial, and technical challenges IT managers face and the trends they must explore. The Cutter IT Journal Resource Center houses current and past issues dating back to 1998, as well as archives of the weekly Cutter IT E-Mail Advisor.
Metrics/Cutter Benchmark Review
The Cutter Benchmark Review gives your organization 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. In addition to current and past issues of CBR, the Metrics/Cutter Benchmark Review Online Resource Center includes timeless advice on measurement from Cutter's acclaimed IT Metrics Strategies newsletter.
Enterprise Suite
With an Enterprise Suite license, your organization will gain access to the complete library of information available in Cutter's Online Resource Centers. With the content available in the Cutter Consortium Enterprise Suite, you get advice that will enable you to concentrate on strategies you can employ to make IT not only a differentiator, but a hyper-differentiator that gives your enterprise a key competitive edge.
Advisory Services
- Agile Product & Project Management
- Business Intelligence
- Business-IT Strategies
- Business Technology Trends & Impacts
- Enterprise Architecture
- Innovation & Enterprise Agility
- Enterprise Risk Management & Governance
- Social Networking
- Sourcing & Vendor Relationships
Journals
Cutter's research deliverables have been created to deliver far-reaching, immediate benefits to the client - right up to the highest level of the organization. They are designed to save you valuable time. In addition to the current content that is continuously added to each online Resource Center, client organizations have access to the practices' archives, additional relevant research, and direct delivery of the weekly E-Mail Advisors directly to each individual participating in their license. And print copies are provided to executives for reading on airplanes and trains.
Executive Reports
At around 20 pages, Executive Reports provide offer a deep look into a cutting edge issue within the practice area. Strategic in nature, these reports serve as foundations to developing your own approaches. With short abstracts on the cover of each report, you'll immediately understand how the subject-matter of that issue might impact your enterprise.
Executive Summaries
These two-page documents accompany each Executive Report, summarizing the key points of the in-depth Report. The fast-reading Executive Summary is perfect for determining what to read and what to route to other members of your team.
Executive Updates
Twice-monthly Executive Updates, usually 2 - 4 pages, comprise analysis of data from Cutter's ongoing industry research efforts, a brief treatment of topics that don't require the in-depth research provided in an Executive Report, revisits and updates on topics that have been previously address by the practice, and more.
E-Mail Advisors
Weekly E-Mail Advisors provide a continuous flow of information, analysis, and news impacting each practice area.
Additional Research
In addition to the regularly published deliverables, Resource Centers include recorded Webinars, podcasts and other research published by Cutter and/or written by Senior Consultants.
Each Resource Center's deliverables vary. Specific deliverables are described by following the links throughout this page.