One of the most important disruptive technologies that businesses can employ today is video. Video can benefit several business activities, including training, corporate communications, collaboration and knowledge sharing, and CRM.

Customer focus and attention to end-to-end processes are essential to success in improving business performance. This Executive Report outlines how organizations can deploy a process-based view and thereby become more adaptive and improve business performance. The tight linkage between process management principles and business architecture enables clarity in today's complex business-IT transformation landscape, facilitating closer business-IT alignment.

Global competition, increasing customer power, and quantum advances in technology have combined to demand a new and more adaptive approach to managing the business. In spite of significant advances in methods to improve business performance, such as TQM, Six Sigma, Lean, BPR, ERP, CRM, SaaS, and the cloud, many organizations continue to struggle in executing improvements to business performance.

One reason for slow cloud adoption within the enterprise has been a justifiable fear of vendor lock-in and proprietary systems partially caused by a woeful lack of cloud computing standards. Cloud migration or onboarding has long been hampered by the lack of virtual image standardization.

Big Data and analytics are of growing importance to the enterprise. These areas have developed so swiftly and contain such levels of potential complexity that they are creating a variety of staffing issues.

Big Data and analytics are of growing importance to the enterprise. These areas have developed so swiftly and contain such levels of potential complexity that they are creating a variety of staffing issues.

In this report, Cutter Senior Consultant Jens Coldewey draws from his years of experience helping organizations transition to agile to identify some of the unexpected problems organizations encounter as they proceed. You'll discover common misconceptions companies have during agile transitions, patterns in conversations with new adopters, and frequently asked questions posed by key stakeholders.

I recently worked with two client management groups on the basics of trust and partnership between IT and business. This is a continuing and ongoing issue that affects our profession and is somewhat amazing to me, since we have been dealing with this problem for so many decades.

In my Advisor "Reassessing Your Software Process," I drew a parallel between transaction cost and velocity. According to classical economic theory (see R.H.

One of the more interesting issues of IEEE Software journal has just hit the proverbial newsstands, and it couldn't have come at a more exciting time.

There has been a lot of noise in the application development area around what are being called "systems of engagement" (SOE).

Decomposition is a popular technique for analyzing many aspects of enterprise architecture, such as software applications, processes, or business products.

Each time I fly, I notice flight attendants taking passengers' food and drink orders on a pad of paper. I've thought for some time now that would be a perfect scenario for using a tablet device. So you can imagine just how pleased I was to learn recently that American Airlines (AA) is going to be doing just that.

Each time I fly, I notice flight attendants taking passengers' food and drink orders on a pad of paper. I've thought for some time now that would be a perfect scenario for using a tablet device. So you can imagine just how pleased I was to learn recently that American Airlines (AA) is going to be doing just that.

"Is it possible to invent or innovate in a more open or collaborative manner, leveraging the intellect of inventors outside of a traditional corporate structure, given the current frameworks for IP protection?"

-- Claude R. Baudoin, Guest Editor

"Is it possible to invent or innovate in a more open or collaborative manner, leveraging the intellect of inventors outside of a traditional corporate structure, given the current frameworks for IP protection?"

-- Claude R. Baudoin, Guest Editor

"Is it possible to invent or innovate in a more open or collaborative manner, leveraging the intellect of inventors outside of a traditional corporate structure, given the current frameworks for IP protection?"

-- Claude R. Baudoin, Guest Editor

Innovation is the key to survival and prosperity. This is particularly true today, when the rapid advance -- and obsolescence -- of technology regularly changes the business environment.1 Such innovation is facilitated by opportunities to collaborate on electronic platforms.

Innovation is the key to survival and prosperity. This is particularly true today, when the rapid advance -- and obsolescence -- of technology regularly changes the business environment.1 Such innovation is facilitated by opportunities to collaborate on electronic platforms.

Innovation is the key to survival and prosperity. This is particularly true today, when the rapid advance -- and obsolescence -- of technology regularly changes the business environment.1 Such innovation is facilitated by opportunities to collaborate on electronic platforms.

We teach our children that sharing is a good thing. In the technology world, this is not always true. To be sure, many companies today benefit from, and even depend upon, jointly innovating with other entities. But sharing the wrong information with the wrong party, or even with the right party on the wrong terms, can be a disaster.

We teach our children that sharing is a good thing. In the technology world, this is not always true. To be sure, many companies today benefit from, and even depend upon, jointly innovating with other entities. But sharing the wrong information with the wrong party, or even with the right party on the wrong terms, can be a disaster.

We teach our children that sharing is a good thing. In the technology world, this is not always true. To be sure, many companies today benefit from, and even depend upon, jointly innovating with other entities. But sharing the wrong information with the wrong party, or even with the right party on the wrong terms, can be a disaster.

Innovation has been a key driver of economic growth, at least since the Industrial Revolution, whose beginning is usually assigned the birth date of 1750. The innovation process has been continually enhanced since then, and the protection of intellectual property (IP) is a key element of innovation. Yet there are several alternative ways to consider contributions to this long march forward. In this article, I highlight the importance of "collateral innovation," a mechanism that isn't studied in mainstream publications on innovation.

The recent blockbuster verdict in the Apple v. Samsung patent infringement case has journalists and pundits arguing with equal fervor about whether it represents the best or the worst of the American patent system. And while analysis of the trial's impact and the subsequent emotional arguments will continue, the case verdict reaffirms just how central patents are to today's technology industry.