Radical Management applies Agile-like principles to the organizational level. The idea is not just theory: Hubert Smits has done it.

The reason for having a business is almost always centered around delivering a different type of value. Yet in the everyday hothouse-world of services and products, an improvement activity can become an end itself. The reason to improve -- delivering the valuable product/service -- falls out of sight... effectively forgotten.

Architect your enterprise for the cloud and gain a new way to source IT without needing the IT department.

It’s never been more important than now for enterprises to get the maximum business benefits for the dollars they spend on their application portfolio.

Advice on how to approach IT cost reduction is regularly featured in many IT journals. That advice usually centers around ideas like renegotiating vendor contracts, offshoring, and deferring upgrades.

The Consortium's team can help you write RFPs that will elicit proposals that meet your requirements. We'll help evaluate the proposals that result from the RFP and make recommendations based on those proposals and our experience with similar sourcing and/or large software/hardware deals. Our Senior Consultants will mentor your internal team throughout the evaluation and negotiation process.

Every IT project should deliver business value. The challenge is that traditional project management and PMOs focus on "on time" and "on budget," not achievement of business value. Cutter's Value Project Portfolio Management (Value-PPM) approach ensures organizations achieve all three goals.

Cutter Senior Consultants and Fellows are experts at facilitating IT strategy sessions. They bring to the process a deep knowledge of business and IT strategy, and many frameworks that can be applied, as well as extensive, hands-on experience assisting companies with this process.

There is often too little time to step back and think about the effects future technology trends will have on your company. Most organizations are under tremendous pressure to make this quarter more successful than the last.