In this Advisor, we propose a maturity framework that addresses the data management challenges for organizations seeking to develop and deploy IoT platforms.

IT can be a powerful force in helping organizations go digital. But many CIOs need to overhaul their own organizations first. This 10-day assessment will help you position IT to drive DT.

This on-demand webinar tackles how organizations and entire industries must rethink value — creating and capturing it ­— to meet the challenges of digital disruption. Evernden goes beyond the surface analysis of digital disruption to spell out the formidable and complex changes that digital will bring to our lives.

Cutter Consortium offers Executive Education days — singly or in a series — designed to move your entire team up the Digital Transformation learning curve.

Leaders who implement digital transformation through a top-down approach, consultant-led approach, or IT-led approach often ignore the conditions that prompted the need for digital transformation in the first place. They decide how to solve the problem without considering the organizational dynamics, behavioral habits, and culture that created the problem. In a rush to make a significant change, leaders decide to postpone dealing with human issues until after critical decisions are made and the transformation is underway. This approach spells failure. 

This engagement will help your organization increase the effectiveness of its strategy execution life cycle, starting with strategy and objective formulation and translation, to business and IT initiative planning, through project execution. You'll discover fast and effective ways to turn business strategy into action, ensuring not only survival, but prosperity.

This engagement will help your organization increase the effectiveness of its strategy execution life cycle, starting with strategy and objective formulation and translation, to business and IT initiative planning, through project execution. You'll discover fast and effective ways to turn business strategy into action, ensuring not only survival, but prosperity.

In this Executive Update, Cutter Senior Consultant Whynde Kuehn highlights some of her responses to a recent Q&A session from a webinar and expands on some key aspects of successful business architecture practices.

Effective digital IT strategies and successful execution of long- and short-term plans enable organizations to realize the goals of digital business strategies and provide guidance to enterprise architecture.

Discover how pilot projects for digital innovations can benefit from adopting an Agile development approach. 

In this final webinar of the series, you will gain a deep understanding of how to develop performance management baseline (PMB) that sustains the EVM method for an Agile Project.

Advice on technology strategy, the skill gaps, and the new roles and responsibilities you need to ensure you have the expertise and the streamlined, agile organizational structure that digital demands.

Business architecture provides the transparency needed to proactively avoid crises through risk and compliance management — and to respond in kind when crises do arise.

Cutter Senior Consultant James Mitchell has developed a revolutionary way to determine how you can optimize your cloud use. Whether you’re moving to the cloud or looking to save on your cloud investment, Dr. James Mitchell provides the tools and insight to help you understand cloud procurement and optimize your cloud computing spend.

Cutter Senior Consultant James Mitchell has developed a revolutionary way to determine how you can optimize your cloud use. Whether you’re moving to the cloud or looking to save on your cloud investment, Dr. James Mitchell provides the tools and insight to help you understand cloud procurement and optimize your cloud computing spend.

Several kinds of architectural assets help connect the enterprise. In this Executive Update, we focus on the conceptual reference model, which provides the foundation needed for any “connection” architecture, capability, or project.

Blockchain is expected to see considerable application in insurance, including for claims management and processing; P2P insurance; managing policy, documentation, and other insurance information; automating sales and underwriting; and for supporting compliance efforts.

Peer-to-peer financing in the form of crowdfunding is increasingly filling a funding gap for companies that are unable to obtain traditional financing or are too early in their lifecycle to attract angel investors and venture capitalists.

Driving business risk down is just smart business. Software-related business risk is an increasing portion of business risk, so knowing how to assiduously reduce software risk has become part and parcel of today’s business reality.

For an enterprise architect, the key point is to understand digital disruption as well as you can and plan the best possible response given this understanding.

Jan-Paul Fillié and Hans Boer talk about the “hills” an organization must surmount to implement Agile at scale. Based on their experience with numerous transformations, Fillié and Boer offer helpful advice on resolving such challenges as changing the organizational culture, coping with teams that deliver at different speeds, coordinating dependencies, and distributing Agile practices.

One of the hallmarks of a mature Agile team is continuous learning. “But,” asks author Jeff Dalton, “do Agile leaders know how and what to teach?” Dalton argues that after decades of “vo-tech” style learning, it’s time for a return to “the collaborative, interpersonal, and analytical skills that ... are so important for successful Agile adoption.” He introduces the Agile Performance Holarchy.

Bob Galen tells of IT leaders who turn to him in frustration as their Agile adoption efforts sputter. Why won’t their teams take the initiative? Why do team members wait to be told what to do? Galen has some uncomfortable news for these clients — it may not be the team but the leader who is at fault.

Jesse Fewell discusses the debate between proponents of a “culture-first” approach to Agile transformation and those who favor a “structure-first” strategy. He describes the pitfalls of each and makes the case that Agile adoption succeeds best when leaders “encourage a conversation that incorporates both perspectives.” He offers three tips for bridging the divide, then introduces the Agile Leadership Canvas.

This article focuses on “Leadership Agility.” The author has done extensive research on leadership and created a leadership development model that works exceptionally well in companies undergoing an Agile transformation.