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.

Learn where the innovation gaps lie between members and groups in your organization. And discover how to close those gaps.

Small and medium-sized insurance companies need to engage with insurtechs to fully take advantage of the insurtech wave and leverage it successfully. In this article, we highlight avenues for sourcing, curating, and building long-term relationships with the insurtech firms that are most suitable for the incumbent organization’s strategic requirements. 

This issue of Cutter Business Technology Journal (CBTJ) takes a wide look at insurtech. It looks at trends and opportu­nities and offers a suite of solutions — from several perspectives — about how to leverage emerging technologies in insurance models and processes.

This issue of Cutter Business Technology Journal (CBTJ) takes a wide look at insurtech. It looks at trends and opportu­nities and offers a suite of solutions — from several perspectives — about how to leverage emerging technologies in insurance models and processes.

There are several key challenges that prevent companies from pursuing innovation effectively by using emerging and disruptive technology trends. In this Advisor, we explore these challenges and offer some key strategic questions for innovation planning.

In this Advisor, we discuss the conceptual reference model, which provides the foundation needed for any “connection” architecture, capability, or project. A conceptual reference model defines the terms and concepts used by the enterprise and the communities in which the enterprise operates. It is referenced by other strategic, operational, and architectural assets as a way to federate and pivot between different processes, communities, schemas, and systems without coupling them together.

As we discuss in this Executive Update, the risks in the infrastructure as a service (IaaS) market must be mitigated to avoid market failure and deliver a stable cloud computing market.

As we discuss in this Executive Update, the risks in the infrastructure as a service (IaaS) market must be mitigated to avoid market failure and deliver a stable cloud computing market.

This Advisor examines the way the data collected over the IIoT ecosystem of interconnected humans and machines can be collected, managed, and exploited. The authors focus particularly on a concept they call "enterprise personal analytics" (EPA) and provide a digital transformation roadmap companies can use to adopt EPA.

This Executive Update continues from where I left off in Part V by examining more domains and industries where blockchain technology will have the most significant impact.

This Executive Update continues from where I left off in Part V by examining more domains and industries where blockchain technology will have the most significant impact.

This Advisor provides a framework for scaling up innovation so that new ideas are not presented by just one team or segment of the organization, they are accumulated from every nook and corner.