Organizational Matters

Editor's note: Assertion #38 from the Cutter Technology Council states, "Success of e-business will depend on its awareness of, support for, and facilitation of conversations between different communities (customers, employees, etc.)." This assertion will be debated in an upcoming Council Opinion.

Editor's note: A recent assertion from the Cutter Business Technology Council states, "Groupware will come into its own (or at least the need for it). This includes shared whiteboards, document control over the extranet, effective cross-organizational to-do lists, e-mail improvements, and improved intranets."

A headline in a recent issue of Internet Week caught my attention.

A headline in a recent issue of Internet Week caught my attention.

When most of us think of the Object Management Group (OMG), we think of an 800-member standards body that defines abstract specifications for middleware architectures like CORBA and its recently announced Model Driven Architecture. It certainly does those things, but it also provides a meeting ground for many industry and domain groups that are developing their own frameworks and standards.

Traditional project management was driven by technically oriented project managers who worked in the traditional hierarchical culture of the broader organization.

Traditional project management was driven by technically oriented project managers who worked in the traditional hierarchical culture of the broader organization.

Although commonly accepted by many organizations as just an additional route to market, e-business builds heavily on an enterprise's technical infrastructure, directly affects PR and marketing strategies, and is subject to a number of cultural, legislative, and environmental constraints.

Although commonly accepted by many organizations as just an additional route to market, e-business builds heavily on an enterprise's technical infrastructure, directly affects PR and marketing strategies, and is subject to a number of cultural, legislative, and environmental constraints.

If you read the popular business magazines, you'll find a lot of discussion about the "new economy" and whether corporate investments in IT over the course of the last five years have really led to significantly higher levels of productivity.

Many miles away Something crawls to the surface Of a dark Scottish lake -- The Police, "Synchronicity II"