Trends are toward change ...
As we at Cutter Benchmark Review begin another year with our annual IT trends issue, there are some changes to share in areas other than IT. With this issue, CBR transitions to a new editor and to a quarterly journal.
Yet some things will remain the same: CBR will continue to bring you detailed, survey-based statistics and analysis on emerging and established IT trends, helping you make informed decisions about the business technology issues impacting your enterprise.
Gabe Piccoli, as many of you will remember, inaugurated our survey-based format in the fall of 2005. He helped develop the CBR model with its unique two-sided perspective, from academics and practitioners. Gabe came up with the cutting-edge topics that you've confirmed have been valuable to you. He worked tirelessly with our contributing authors to improve their articles. And he pulled each issue together thematically with his insightful and engaging commentary. Not surprisingly, Gabe's career has flourished, and he is in much demand, frequently finding himself in a different country -- and often on a different continent -- every few days. Something had to give, and that something was his editorship of CBR. We wish Gabe the very best in his endeavors and hope to perhaps see him in the pages of CBR in the future as a guest author.
Despite our sadness at Gabe's departure, fortune has smiled on CBR. I am delighted to introduce Joseph Feller as CBR Editor with this issue. Joe is both a Senior Consultant with Cutter Consortium's Data Insight & Social BI practice and a Senior Lecturer in Business Information Systems at the University College Cork (UCC-Ireland). He has contributed a multitude of top-notch Executive Reports and Executive Updates to Cutter Consortium's practices. Joe has also been a frequent guest author for CBR and is therefore intimately familiar with the journal and its format.
Joe discusses his involvement with CBR more fully in the Introduction to this issue. As his Introduction attests, Joe is a dynamic thinker and will be an outstanding editor for CBR. Please give him a warm welcome -- and stay tuned for future topics under his leadership. If you have any suggestions or feedback regarding CBR, please be in touch! All of us on the CBR team would very much like to hear from you.
Sincerely,
Cindy Swain,
Managing Editor, Cutter Benchmark Review