Managing IT Innovation: Spotting the Next Big Thing

Robert Austin

Few areas of business have produced as many surprises as has IT. If we look back over the past 40 years or so, we see an accelerating pattern of advance, driven by Moore's Law, in which technologies rise, propagate, and are then eclipsed by new and better technologies. And IT companies come and go almost as rapidly (e.g., Wang, Digital).


Managing IT Innovation: Spotting the Next Big Thing

Robert Austin

Few areas of business have produced as many surprises as has IT. If we look back over the past 40 years or so, we see an accelerating pattern of advance, driven by Moore's Law, in which technologies rise, propagate, and are then eclipsed by new and better technologies. And IT companies come and go almost as rapidly (e.g., Wang, Digital).


Managing IT Innovation: Spotting the Next Big Thing

Robert Austin

Few areas of business have produced as many surprises as has IT. If we look back over the past 40 years or so, we see an accelerating pattern of advance, driven by Moore's Law, in which technologies rise, propagate, and are then eclipsed by new and better technologies. And IT companies come and go almost as rapidly (e.g., Wang, Digital).


A Market Snapshot: Insights From Cutter's Web Services Survey

Tom Welsh
A MARKET SNAPSHOT: INSIGHTS FROM CUTTER'S WEB SERVICES SURVEY

Everyone is talking about Web services, but the information on offer is heavily skewed.


A Market Snapshot: Insights From Cutter's Web Services Survey

Tom Welsh
A MARKET SNAPSHOT: INSIGHTS FROM CUTTER'S WEB SERVICES SURVEY

Everyone is talking about Web services, but the information on offer is heavily skewed.


IT in a Hunt-Kill-Eat Economy

Cutter Business Technology Council

Taken together, the Cutter Business Technology Council Fellows meet and work with representatives of scores of IT organizations in any given month. When we put our heads together to find patterns in our experience, it's hard to miss one evident fact: the mood in IT these days is glum.


IT in a Hunt-Kill-Eat Economy

Cutter Business Technology Council

Taken together, the Cutter Business Technology Council Fellows meet and work with representatives of scores of IT organizations in any given month. When we put our heads together to find patterns in our experience, it's hard to miss one evident fact: the mood in IT these days is glum.


Tough Love? Or Empowerment?

Steve Andriole, Robert Austin, Christine Davis, Tom DeMarco, Lynne Ellyn, Jim Highsmith, Tim Lister, Ken Orr, Ed Yourdon
Do the business management mantras of the 20th century apply to the business demands of the 21st?

CRM: Strategy or Technology?

Paul Harmon

A group of packaged application vendors, including Siebel, SAP, UpShot, Avaya, Knowlagent, and PeopleSoft, is currently running a special advertising section on customer relationship management (see CRM).


Measurement Strategy: Leveraging What You Know

Steve Andriole
  For more on metrics and IT performance, see the November 2002 issue of Cutter Benchmark Review, available from Cutter Consortium at +1 781 641 9876, fax +1 781 648 1950, or e-mail