Blockchain in Smart City Administration: A Look at OrgBook

Magesh Kasthuri

Magesh Kasthuri discusses how city administration can use blockchain. He provides various insights into decentralized architecture, including its technology benefits and security implementation. The article highlights a need for self-healing and auto-scaling services within a smart city architecture, which can be achieved by a blockchain network based on HyperLedger Fabric in a cloud environment. Blockchain can make cities more efficient and more resilient and adds greater transparency and security to a city’s digital processes. Applying DLT technologies in smart cities is an opportunity to reshape many aspects of how cities are organized and managed in order to better serve their citizens.


Blockchain in Smart City Administration: A Look at OrgBook

Magesh Kasthuri

Magesh Kasthuri discusses how city administration can use blockchain. He provides various insights into decentralized architecture, including its technology benefits and security implementation. The article highlights a need for self-healing and auto-scaling services within a smart city architecture, which can be achieved by a blockchain network based on HyperLedger Fabric in a cloud environment. Blockchain can make cities more efficient and more resilient and adds greater transparency and security to a city’s digital processes. Applying DLT technologies in smart cities is an opportunity to reshape many aspects of how cities are organized and managed in order to better serve their citizens.


Blockchain Regulatory Sandboxes

Patryk Walaszczyk

Patryk Walaszczyk discusses regulators’ role in blockchain adoption. He evaluates different approaches to regulatory sandboxes and questions their value in driving innovation and blockchain technology adoption. The author provides information about the scope and objectives of some blockchain sandboxes as well as their outcomes so far. It is to be hoped that current government efforts will accelerate blockchain adoption and that new business models across industries will emerge.


Beyond Cryptocurrency: There’s More to Blockchain

Pavankumar Mulgund, Ankit Sharma, Adarsh Srivastava, Lavlin Agrawal

This article examines the technical feasibility of DLT to handle enterprise requirements and demands. The authors investigate the strategic value that blockchain technologies bring to the table, examine potential use cases in various business domains, and discuss the challenges involved in the realization of these use cases. They explore how the nature of certain businesses makes them better suited for blockchain technology and discuss the best practices involved in developing blockchain-based applications.


Blockchain: New Industry Trends, Developments, Use Cases — Opening Statement

Karolina Marzantowicz

This issue of Cutter Business Technology Journal (CBTJ) continues the conversation we began in our last CBTJ and focuses on blockchain technology adoption beyond cryptocurrencies and financial services. The authors explore areas such as energy and utilities and government and present real examples of successful DLT implementations. They share their practical experiences in overcoming and addressing some of the known issues with blockchain projects.


Blockchain: New Industry Trends, Developments, Use Cases — Opening Statement

Karolina Marzantowicz

This issue of Cutter Business Technology Journal (CBTJ) continues the conversation we began in our last CBTJ and focuses on blockchain technology adoption beyond cryptocurrencies and financial services. The authors explore areas such as energy and utilities and government and present real examples of successful DLT implementations. They share their practical experiences in overcoming and addressing some of the known issues with blockchain projects.


The Rise of the Customer-Centric Business Model

Curt Hall

Today we are seeing a growing interest in the customer-centric business model among organizations that have come to see such models as a practical way to support a standard customer experience across all their various channels and brands.


Top Intriguing Business Agility & Software Engineering Excellence Articles for 2019

Karen Coburn

As has been our tradition for the last several years, we’ve compiled the five most intriguing articles published by the Business Agility & Software Engineering Excellence practice for today’s Advisor. How did we come up with this list? We chose the articles that garnered the most feedback from Cutter Members. Your questions and comments not only make it possible to create lists like this, they help focus Cutter’s Senior Consultants’ research on the areas that are most important to organizations like yours. So please keep your feedback coming.


Top Intriguing Business Agility & Software Engineering Excellence Articles for 2019

Karen Coburn

As has been our tradition for the last several years, we’ve compiled the five most intriguing articles published by the Business Agility & Software Engineering Excellence practice for today’s Advisor. How did we come up with this list? We chose the articles that garnered the most feedback from Cutter Members. Your questions and comments not only make it possible to create lists like this, they help focus Cutter’s Senior Consultants’ research on the areas that are most important to organizations like yours. So please keep your feedback coming.


Top Intriguing Business Technology & Digital Transformation Strategies Articles for 2019

Karen Coburn

We’ve compiled the five most intriguing articles published by Business Technology & Digital Transformation Strategies in 2019 for today’s Advisor.


Top Intriguing Business & Enterprise Architecture Articles for 2019

Karen Coburn

As has been our tradition for the last several years, we’ve compiled the five most intriguing articles published by the Business & Enterprise Architecture practice for today’s Advisor. How did we come up with this list? We chose the articles that garnered the most feedback from Cutter Members. Your questions and comments not only make it possible to create lists like this, they help focus Cutter’s Senior Consultants’ research on the areas that are most important to organizations like yours. So please keep your feedback coming.


Top Intriguing Cutter Business Technology Journal Articles for 2019

Karen Coburn

As has been our tradition for the last several years, we’ve compiled the five most intriguing articles published by the Cutter Business Technology Journal this year for today’s Advisor. How did we come up with this list? We chose the articles that garnered the most feedback from Cutter Members and clients and those that created controversy among Cutter Senior Consultants and Fellows.


Top Intriguing Data Analytics & Digital Technologies Articles for 2019

Karen Coburn

As has been our tradition for the last several years, we’ve compiled the five most intriguing articles published by the Data Analytics & Digital Technologies practice this year for today’s Advisor. How did we come up with this list? We chose the articles that garnered the most feedback from Cutter Members and clients and those that created controversy among Cutter Senior Consultants and Fellows.


The Global State of Business Architecture: Where We Are and Where We’re Going

Whynde Kuehn

As we near the end of another year, it is a good time to reflect and look forward. Whether you are think­ing over your organization’s business architecture practice or your own business architecture career, an awareness of the bigger picture is important for comparison and inspiration. That is the purpose of this Executive Update.


Blockchain: Here to Stay? — Opening Statement

Karolina Marzantowicz

In this Cutter Business Technology Journal (CBTJ), we take a broad look at the opportunities and disruptions that blockchain creates. Our authors explore reasons why blockchain application is still slow regardless of overall interest in the technology. Enterprises are still struggling to find a blockchain that fits their needs, especially from a scaling perspective. A key observation from these articles is that regulation and compliance can help drive blockchain technology adoption. Blockchain (and related use cases such as cryptocurrency and digital assets) is currently subject to very limited regulation. In this issue, the authors provide researchers and practitioners with an overall view of the current state of blockchain adoption and what industry participants perceive as its challenges. They present real-world examples of DLT implementations and demonstrate how this new technology can deliver new value.


Blockchain: Here to Stay? — Opening Statement

Karolina Marzantowicz

In this Cutter Business Technology Journal (CBTJ), we take a broad look at the opportunities and disruptions that blockchain creates. Our authors explore reasons why blockchain application is still slow regardless of overall interest in the technology. Enterprises are still struggling to find a blockchain that fits their needs, especially from a scaling perspective. A key observation from these articles is that regulation and compliance can help drive blockchain technology adoption. Blockchain (and related use cases such as cryptocurrency and digital assets) is currently subject to very limited regulation. In this issue, the authors provide researchers and practitioners with an overall view of the current state of blockchain adoption and what industry participants perceive as its challenges. They present real-world examples of DLT implementations and demonstrate how this new technology can deliver new value.


Guiding the Adoption of Artificial Intelligence with Business Design

Whynde Kuehn, Mike Clark

Senior leaders are feeling the push from shareholders to continue driving their organizations forward, but is AI the answer? Just because AI is front-page news, is it right for your organization? Are the implications truly understood? These questions and more are crucial for leaders as the AI evolution continues to shape the next wave of work. Clearly, AI will profoundly transform our lives in the years ahead. Finding the balance between opportunity and implications is key to our success as well as to our future. This Executive Report explores these opportunities and implications, discusses how business design can be a crucial guide for AI, and provides key recommendations for moving into action.


Guiding the Adoption of Artificial Intelligence with Business Design (Executive Summary)

Whynde Kuehn, Mike Clark

Senior leaders are feeling the push from shareholders to continue driving their organizations forward, but is AI the answer? Just because AI is front-page news, is it right for your organization? Are the implications truly understood? These questions and more are crucial for leaders as the AI evolution continues to shape the next wave of work. Clearly, AI will profoundly transform our lives in the years ahead. Finding the balance between opportunity and implications is key to our success as well as to our future. The accompanying Executive Report explores these opportunities and implications, discusses how business design can be a crucial guide for AI, and provides key recommendations for moving into action.


3 Implications of Changes in Software Development

Kaushik Dutta, Sunil Mithas, San Murugesan

The expectations end users have of software today are significantly different than those they had just a few years ago. This Advisor examine three implications of these rising expectations.


Keeping the Digital Train on Track

Dinesh Kumar

This Advisor explores three major disciplines that “Good to great” organizations follow to govern their portfolio and examines practices that enable organi­zations to keep the digital train moving with minimal friction, cost, and effort.


5 Strategic Considerations in Approaching Big Data Quality

Bhuvan Unhelkar

To realize value in big data, organizations must establish a proper quality function around the unique characteristics of big data.This Advisor explores five strategic considerations in developing a quality environment in a big data initiative.


Be the Change: Disrupting Business Architecture

Whynde Kuehn

We have a growing body of evidence that points us to what makes a business architecture team successful. In this Advisor, we share a few characteristics that encapsulate how successful business architecture practitioners think and act.


CX Management in the Enterprise, Part VII: More Leading CX Technologies

Curt Hall

This Executive Update series examines the extent that organizations are using or planning to use CX practices and technologies, the status of implementing CX management, the establishment of dedicated enterprise CX groups, and the reason such groups oversee CX initiatives. Here in Part VII, we examine some of the advanced technologies organi­zations are interested in adopting for CX.


The Cutter Edge: AI’s Potential for Social & Economic Disruption, the Cognitive Enterprise, Winning with Digital Transformation

Cutter Consortium

This edition of The Cutter Edge explores the social, economic, privacy, and ethical issues associated with AI adoption; how the cognitive enterprise offers a business-driven vision for organizations, and more!


The Cutter Edge: AI’s Potential for Social & Economic Disruption, the Cognitive Enterprise, Winning with Digital Transformation

Cutter Consortium

This edition of The Cutter Edge explores the social, economic, privacy, and ethical issues associated with AI adoption; how the cognitive enterprise offers a business-driven vision for organizations, and more!