Information Superiority from Product Leadership
Richard Veryard
In this Executive Update, we look at how product intelligence helps address challenges to achieving product leadership, as well as the general business improvements that improved product data and insight can drive.
Creating Competitive Digital Operating Models in Analog-Native Companies
Jonas Andrén, Lokesh Dadhich, Johan Treutiger
There are very few success stories of traditional analog-native companies becoming digitally mature enough to compete with the digital-native players. This drives an urgent need for the analog-native companies to adapt strategies, business models, organizational structures, and capabilities to remain competitive in the short term and relevant in the long term. Moreover, to build lasting differentiation and competitive advantage, this adaptation needs to be carried out while simultaneously preserving, enhancing, and expanding the core business.
Creating Competitive Digital Operating Models in Analog-Native Companies
Jonas Andrén, Lokesh Dadhich, Johan Treutiger
There are very few success stories of traditional analog-native companies becoming digitally mature enough to compete with the digital-native players. This drives an urgent need for the analog-native companies to adapt strategies, business models, organizational structures, and capabilities to remain competitive in the short term and relevant in the long term. Moreover, to build lasting differentiation and competitive advantage, this adaptation needs to be carried out while simultaneously preserving, enhancing, and expanding the core business.
Unlocking the Value of Acquisitions with EA: A Q&A
Gustav Toppenberg, Stefan Henningsson
In a recent webinar, Cutter Consortium Senior Consultant Gustav Toppenberg and Stefan Henningsson discussed the problem of growth by acquisition and how advances in enterprise architecture practices not only overcome obstacles but also enable value creation. In this Advisor, we share some questions asked at the end of the webinar that may help you to use EA to unlock the value potential of your own acquisitions.
Unlocking the Value of Acquisitions with EA: A Q&A
Gustav Toppenberg, Stefan Henningsson
In a recent webinar, Cutter Consortium Senior Consultant Gustav Toppenberg and Stefan Henningsson discussed the problem of growth by acquisition and how advances in enterprise architecture practices not only overcome obstacles but also enable value creation. In this Advisor, we share some questions asked at the end of the webinar that may help you to use EA to unlock the value potential of your own acquisitions.
The Cutter Edge: Why Agile Fails, Paradigm Shift in Healthcare, Automotive Industry Strategies, more!
Cutter Consortium
This week's edition of The Cutter Edge takes a look at why agile adoption fails, why digitization in healthcare is an imperative, how the automotive industry can amplify its competitive advantage, and more!
How Is the Pandemic Impacting Enterprise Automation Efforts?
Curt Hall
Even before the coronavirus pandemic hit, automation was deemed an important element of business survival and digital transformation strategies. Now we are constantly informed by vendors, the media, and IT advisory firms that business process automation is more necessary today than ever.
How Is the Pandemic Impacting Enterprise Automation Efforts?
Curt Hall
Even before the coronavirus pandemic hit, automation was deemed an important element of business survival and digital transformation strategies. Now we are constantly informed by vendors, the media, and IT advisory firms that business process automation is more necessary today than ever.
Value Stream Mapping as a Teaming Exercise
Catherine Louis, Karen Smiley
After doing some mini design thinking interviews at all levels of an organization to uncover hidden issues, the authors propose an 8-step value stream mapping exercise to help team members all get on the same page.
The Real Negotiation: Getting Over Your Collywobbles
Moshe Cohen
As IS executives, you negotiate constantly — whether it be externally with vendors, contractors, or other partners, or internally with different managers, departments, your project teams, or your direct reports. Some of these negotiations are formal, but most are informal, involving day-to-day interactions at work. These negotiations are consequential, determining your budgets, deliverables, schedules, availability of equipment or services, and other factors that influence your success. Unfortunately, many IS professionals never get exposed to negotiation skills and strategies as part of their education and training.
Bouncing Back from COVID-19, Part I: Consumer Electronics and Media
Karim Taga, Rohit Sethi, Gregory Pankert
The COVID-19 pandemic has led to sizable disruptions in international economic activity, impacting all industries, although at different magnitudes. It is now time for decision makers to expand their focus beyond immediate crisis management to actions that will strengthen their competitive play in the medium and long term. In this Advisor series, we take a look at the telecom, media, and technology sectors, in particular, which show relatively strong resilience to the adverse impact of COVID-19. Here in Part I, we begin with the COVID-19 impact to the consumer electronics and media world.
Bouncing Back from COVID-19, Part I: Consumer Electronics and Media
Karim Taga, Rohit Sethi, Gregory Pankert
The COVID-19 pandemic has led to sizable disruptions in international economic activity, impacting all industries, although at different magnitudes. It is now time for decision makers to expand their focus beyond immediate crisis management to actions that will strengthen their competitive play in the medium and long term. In this Advisor series, we take a look at the telecom, media, and technology sectors, in particular, which show relatively strong resilience to the adverse impact of COVID-19. Here in Part I, we begin with the COVID-19 impact to the consumer electronics and media world.
Proactive Risk Management with SRA Modeling
Michael Bissonette
I’ve always hoped to make risk-adjusted project schedule commitments while having teams buy in to working toward more aggressive target schedules. And I wanted to do so in support of the notion that great organizations must continuously strive to do more with less. This might sound contradictory, but it does not need to be — not if an organization also practices (and assimilates the results of) proactive risk management with the use of schedule risk analysis modeling and simulation tools and techniques.
The Heart of Architecture
Balaji Prasad
An architecture is designed collaboratively. Architects are also, sometimes, part of the collaborative process. Yes, “also, sometimes, part of.” The collaborative nature of architecture in enterprises is what makes it so challenging, intriguing, and even vexing to those who are entangled in what is a very multidimensional process.
Q&A: What's Up and Coming with Blockchain?
Karolina Marzantowicz
Advances in blockchain technology have been unwavering. Thanks to a slew of current and emerging trends, blockchain is now viewed as a mature and accessible technology and business solution for those seeking to make transactions with greater security, transparency, speed, efficiency, and cost savings. In a Cutter Consortium webinar earlier this year, Karolina Marzantowicz revealed some new blockchain-based innovations — such as the growth of global blockchain consortiums, stablecoins, digital currencies, new service offerings from big tech giants, and decentralized finance platforms — that are revolutionizing the banking and finance industry by transforming both the business and consumer experience in positive ways. In this Advisor, we share six questions asked at the end of the webinar that may help you in your blockchain journey.
Reskilling and Retraining During and After COVID-19
Cui Zou, Wangchuchu Zhao, Keng Siau
While the coronavirus pandemic has disrupted the economy and work routines, it also provides opportunities for organizations to implement continuous learning and make progress toward upskilling and reskilling employees. We recommend managers and companies consider the four types of learning technology for workforce training, professional development, and onboarding described in this Advisor.
Operational Planning & Risk Mitigation: Managing Risk with AI & ML
Tom Teixeira, Craig Wylie
In the third installment of their webinar series, “Using AI/Machine Learning to Manage Risk,” Cutter Senior Consultants Carl Bate, Craig Wylie, and Tom Teixeira answered some questions about new risk models that utilize artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) to understand and respond to the changing business landscape.
Operational Planning & Risk Mitigation: Managing Risk with AI & ML
Tom Teixeira, Craig Wylie
In the third installment of their webinar series, “Using AI/Machine Learning to Manage Risk,” Cutter Senior Consultants Carl Bate, Craig Wylie, and Tom Teixeira answered some questions about new risk models that utilize artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) to understand and respond to the changing business landscape.
Fast Feedback Processes, Measurable Outcomes, and Empowerment: Lessons from COVID-19
Borys Stokalski
In Poland, the lockdown started at the beginning of March 2020. Instantly, the business, education, healthcare as well as social and cultural life switched to a new “modus operandi,” based on online relationships, sharing of digital assets, and digitally enabled processes. Digital habits, which used to be an optional way of handling daily routine tasks, have suddenly become the only possible way of achieving personal, professional, or political goals.
Fast Feedback Processes, Measurable Outcomes, and Empowerment: Lessons from COVID-19
Borys Stokalski
In Poland, the lockdown started at the beginning of March 2020. Instantly, the business, education, healthcare as well as social and cultural life switched to a new “modus operandi,” based on online relationships, sharing of digital assets, and digitally enabled processes. Digital habits, which used to be an optional way of handling daily routine tasks, have suddenly become the only possible way of achieving personal, professional, or political goals.
Innovex: Global Innovation Excellence Benchmarking
When you’ve benchmarked your ability to innovate with Innovex, you’ll be not only be able to identify areas for improvements, but you’ll also be positioned to develop better ecosystem capabilities, stronger core innovation processes, and develop breakthrough approaches.
Overcoming the “Four Horsemen” of Ineffective HR Practices
Robert Ogilvie, Jeffrey McNally
This Advisor explores long-term and short-term solutions to the issues posed by the "four horsemen" of not-so-strategic HR practices.
Breaking Down Business Architecture: 5 Things to Know
Whynde Kuehn
As business architecture gains more and more attention and adoption worldwide, every once in a while it can be useful to lift up, step back, and refresh on a few key concepts. If you’re new to the discipline, these will help you to accelerate your understanding and navigate the wealth of information available. If you’re experienced with the discipline, these will help you to ensure alignment with the latest and greatest evolution. This Advisor lays out the top five foundational things you need to know about business architecture.
Dissecting the Aches and Pains of Implementing Business Agility
Borys Stokalski, Aleksander Solecki
This on-demand webinar looks at the processes and practices that support business agility from the perspectives of value innovation and product portfolio management. You’ll discover why “crossing of the Rubicon” is a useful metaphor to describe the challenge of rolling out an innovation that fundamentally changes the way an organization works, and why to achieve truly transformative changes, you’ll need to reevaluate skills, priorities, resources, and power.
The Cutter Edge: Residuality Theory to the Rescue, Improve Acquisitions with EA, and more!
Cutter Consortium
This issue of The Cutter Edge explores how the software system design process can be streamlined and improved by applying Residuality Theory, how engaging enterprise architects in the acquisition process allows for a more comprehensive strategic planning framework to facilitate better acquisition performance, and more!
