If you are with a conventional company (probably one established before 2010), it’s very likely that you have a command-and-control structure with a board dominated by shareholder representatives and operationalized starting with the CEO. There may be many levels of command, down to section- or unit-level supervisors. This structure is time-tested, beginning with the Pharaohs of Egypt! It has the advantage of clearly delineating authorities, responsibilities, decision-making roles, and accountabilities.

We call out the hardware, the software, the applications, the information, and even the business processes, as we visualize the different layers of the enterprise. However, we stop just short of defining the enterprise stack fully; what is noticeable by its absence is the most important part of the enterprise: the people.

In this webinar, Cutter Consortium Senior Consultant Whynde Kuehn reveals how, through the combination of business architecture and CX design, organizations can gain more insight into where and how to align and transform their business models so they can focus on the ongoing needs of their customers while driving organizational efficiencies.

In this webinar, Cutter Consortium Senior Consultant Whynde Kuehn reveals how, through the combination of business architecture and CX design, organizations can gain more insight into where and how to align and transform their business models so they can focus on the ongoing needs of their customers while driving organizational efficiencies.

Banking and financial services companies were among the first to apply artificial intelligence (AI) in strategic applications. Initially, this took place in the mid- to late 1980s in the form of expert and knowledge-based systems for credit and loan approval and mortgage processing, and so on, and then in the early to mid-1990s, when neural network-based applications for credit and bank card fraud detection, and profitability management, began to be deployed.

In this Update, we examine some of the more temporal aspects of using the ADF activities as part of a systems development process. We begin by revisiting the ADF activity structure and, by choosing an example development process, examine how the activities that comprise that process exchange information. We shall then look at the viability of a typical development sprint timescale in being able to accommodate all the activities necessary for large, complex development involving business analysis.

Join Cutter Consortium Fellow and Ivey Business School Professor Robert D. Austin for this hour-long webinar in which lay out the new digital business strategy map. He’ll talk about new rules and new realities that you need to know to proof your business against disruption in a “hub" or “platform" economy. Rob’s objective is to help you down a path toward equipping all your managers for survival in a digitally transformed world.

Cutter Consortium is conducting a series of surveys on how organizations are adopting, or planning to adopt, artificial intelligence (AI) technologies. We also seek to identify important issues and other considerations they are encountering or foresee encountering in their efforts. Here in Part V, we look at findings pertaining to the industries and domains where organizations see AI having its most significant impact.

Cutter Consortium is conducting a series of surveys on how organizations are adopting, or planning to adopt, artificial intelligence (AI) technologies. We also seek to identify important issues and other considerations they are encountering or foresee encountering in their efforts. Here in Part V, we look at findings pertaining to the industries and domains where organizations see AI having its most significant impact.

Given the risk/reward tradeoff inherent in disruptive technology adoption, this Advisor aims to identify the motives, pressures, and efforts that influence continued adoption intention and usage of a disruptive technology after the initial adoption stage.

An organization is likely to base its digital disruption upon the markets and geographies in which it already operates, and the existing workforce understands the customers and needs of both the current market and the current geographies. It is therefore essential that leaders utilize their existing resource pool by providing employees with the learning and tailored development to facilitate their transition to the digital era.

In this on-demand webinar, Cutter Consortium Senior Consultant Frank Contrepois shares advice, forged from his experiences with AWS, on how you can avoid wasting money on cloud services by keeping an eye on — and acting upon — three things.

In this on-demand webinar, Cutter Consortium Senior Consultant Frank Contrepois shares advice, forged from his experiences with AWS, on how you can avoid wasting money on cloud services by keeping an eye on — and acting upon — three things.

Organizations should focus their attention not on integrating, storing, or even analyzing data, but on the effective use of time.

Miklós Jánoska provides a perspective on how we can shift architecture from a governor to more of an enabler. 

Bob Galen lays out nine rules of Agile architecture to inform us in how to think about architecture and help us strike the right balance between architecture and agility. 

The authors explore Agile architecture and architectural agility and how these two fundamentally different paradigms can reinforce one another. They describe the pitfalls or “anti-patterns” for both enterprise architecture and Agile — and then make a case for how they can be overcome by combining the practices. 

The authors point out how the worlds of Agile and architecture can’t quite fit together. To resolve this, they introduce a new architectural approach, asserting that by “architecting for antifragility, busi­nesses can gain real agility and deliver systems with a higher level of quality.” They describe the challenges of complex systems and then define an Antifragile Systems Design process.

The authors articulate con­crete ways in which we can shift our perspectives and act to “agilify” our organizations. 

This article focuses on business architecture and discusses how it can be leveraged as an enabler along the strategy realization path to harmonize the execution of business direction across organizational boundaries and initiatives.

According to the principle of yin and yang, all things exist as inseparable and contradictory opposites. In this issue of Cutter Business Technology Journal (CBTJ), we explore the relationship between architecture and organizational agility as a powerful paradox: architecture is the way to agility.

Analytics can be performed at various points in the deployment of a solution. Certainly, there are situations where “localized” analytics may be more appropriate than analytics performed in the cloud, and still others where analytics on the organization’s network might be more appropriate. The location of analytics can also determine where and when to integrate data into the analytical solution.

In this Advisor, we present a sample of core thinking — a set of practices needed to build a Lean/Agile organization — grouped under three different categories: (1) foundational thinking, (2) designing, and (3) redesigning.

With the arrival of private blockchain platforms that integrate nonfunctional requirements arising from typical market conditions (i.e., privacy, confidentiality, controlled access), the barriers to creation of a digital economy become less significant and easier to overcome.

This Advisor describes several EA techniques in an IoT context.