What is the role of a Major Incident Manager (MIM)? Should he or she be technically skilled or business savvy or process oriented? This Advisor suggests some core competencies for MIMs. 

Based on budgeting plans revealed in our survey that asked 103 organizations about their efforts to utilize blockchain technology, 2018 could prove a breakout year for organizations getting their blockchain initiatives underway.

Though innovation and disruptive technologies are mentioned as key themes for most organizations, many times the focus seems to divert to incremental improvements rather than preparing for major breakthroughs that could disrupt and add value to the market, economy, customers, and industry.

In this on-demand webinar, Cutter Senior Consultant Bhuvan Unhelkar goes in depth on why innovators in such a dynamic business space need to be extremely flexible and agile and why understanding the business value of innovations requires imagination and a capacity to map those innovations to existing business opportunities and challenges. He also reveals how big data, the Internet of Things (IoT) and the Cloud necessitate agility and imagination in order to demonstrate the value of an innovation.

The emergence of CX design as a key discipline practiced by many organizations has opened up some questions about how it relates to business architecture.

Connected insurance (from wearables usage to mobile health appli­cations) presents great potential for both the insurer and the insured. Such potential should be harnessed in a profitable way by targeting less risky clients and presenting them with an improved, better-priced value proposition. For this to happen, insurance companies will have to seek partners from both the technological innovation sphere and the medical field, keeping in mind that insurance’s role in the health system is changing from payer to player.

This Executive Update highlights several areas where European initiatives are helping to guide, bolster, and reinforce the structure of the cloud market toward one that encourages healthy competition. These are specialist frameworks and services that address very specific market requirements and remove friction in the adoption of cloud services. 

This Executive Update highlights several areas where European initiatives are helping to guide, bolster, and reinforce the structure of the cloud market toward one that encourages healthy competition. These are specialist frameworks and services that address very specific market requirements and remove friction in the adoption of cloud services. 

This Executive Update outlines a roadmap for big data adoption based on the Big Data Framework for Agile Business (BDFAB). My last two Updates on big data strategies addressed overcoming the big data strategy lacuna and the importance of extracting the 5th “V” for value from big data. This Update builds on my previous two by demonstrating how organizations can adopt big data.

Many long-standing problems like technical debt owe their longevity to two factors — not dealing effectively with their causes and not dealing effectively with their resilience. Because what limits our ability to deal with technical debt might not be technical, it is useful to explore possible psychological and political sources of the longevity of the technical debt problem. This Advisor takes a close look at five problem areas and suggests the ­outlines of a program for managing technical debt.

In this Advisor, we present the approach taken to set a roadmap for the journey of the Hellenic Telecommunications Organization (OTE), the incumbent telecom operator in Greece, toward digital transformation.

We believe that having a successful, well-connected, and respected enterprise architecture (EA) group with experienced enterprise architects is critically important in an organization’s effort to become a successful digital business. EA provides an approach for understanding and managing the complexity of digital transformation.

In this on-demand webinar, Cutter Consortium Fellow, Steve Andriole, focuses on how to make digital transformation projects successful by assessing the methods, skills and support at your disposal.

Customer journeys, value chains, value streams, and business processes are four organiza­tional views that tend to bring about questions and confusion. On the surface, each of these artifacts may appear to have some similar elements, such as the business vocabulary they use or the fact that they represent some concept of “flow.” However, as this Executive Update clarifies, all four views differ in both intention and representation and thus should be clearly differentiated from each other.     

How do end-user organizations feel about the potential for blockchain to disrupt their industries and lines of business? A Cutter Consortium survey that asked 103 organizations about their efforts to utilize blockchain technology helps provide some insight into this question.

Today’s leaders are racing to reconfigure their organi­zations to be more adaptive and competitive. However, when looking for guidance on how to do that, they will discover two competing schools of thought in the Agile community: “First fix the culture” and “First fix the org structure.” In reality, this debate between a culture-first or structure-first strategy is misguided. Leaders need to encourage a conversation that incorporates both perspectives. Through this two-sided conversation, they can guide an organizational transition that is both meaningful and sustainable.

In this Advisor, we report on research carried out at the State Street/University College Cork Advanced Technology Centre in Cork, Ireland. The challenge we address in our work is how to leverage and nurture the diversity of the crowd while still ensuring the crowd behaves in a safe, responsible, and informed manner.

The insurance arena is undergoing an evolution through technological developments, demand changes for coverage, and risk perception. A dire need for change is evident when we look at large disasters that have the potential to cause harm to diverse communities over sizeable geographical areas

The insurance arena is undergoing an evolution through technological developments, demand changes for coverage, and risk perception. A dire need for change is evident when we look at large disasters that have the potential to cause harm to diverse communities over sizeable geographical areas

Cutter Senior Consultant Roger Evernden has developed a comprehensive and integrated set of online modules and courses intended to help you develop your enterprise architecture knowledge and skills. 

In this on-demand recording, you'll hear William Ulrich and Whynde Kuehn's answers to Cutter Consortium members' questions about business architecture.

In this article, we reflect on the experiences gained in the digital transformation of a traditional insurance company in Germany.

In this article, we reflect on the experiences gained in the digital transformation of a traditional insurance company in Germany.

Connected insurance, enabled by big data, the Internet of Things (IoT), and artificial intelligence (AI), is disrupting a major industry that is traditionally resistant to change. Insurance technology — or insurtech — is a vast field and incorporates the interconnected landscape of connected insurance with its three pillars: health, car, and home. Microinsurance comes as a transversal opportunity that can help close the protection gap on the one hand and allow carriers to propose customer-centric products and services aligned with client expectations and behavior on the other hand.

Connected insurance, enabled by big data, the Internet of Things (IoT), and artificial intelligence (AI), is disrupting a major industry that is traditionally resistant to change. Insurance technology — or insurtech — is a vast field and incorporates the interconnected landscape of connected insurance with its three pillars: health, car, and home. Microinsurance comes as a transversal opportunity that can help close the protection gap on the one hand and allow carriers to propose customer-centric products and services aligned with client expectations and behavior on the other hand.