Cutter Business Technology Council: We Called It!

We Called It!

The Cutter Business Technology Council

While other analyst firms prognosticate without explaining how they reached their conclusions, making the whole process seem like guesswork, the Cutter Business Technology Council approaches the identification of important new trends using a process adapted from the United States Supreme Court. The Council's strongly worded opinions and concurring and dissenting opinions display the thinking behind the predictions, including and explaining any contrary views. Learn more »

This unique process enables the Council to give you not only assertions, or trends, but also the attributable rationale behind each assertion, so your organization can more confidently bet on the future, and make decisions and develop the scenario planning that will enable you to react to events that the future will bring.

Here are some of the trends the Council identified, enabling Cutter's clients to be out ahead of the curve.

Continuous Partial Attention: All You'll Be Able to Expect

by Timothy Lister, The Cutter Business Technology Council (August 2002)

Continuous partial attention will become the most common mode of human interaction with the most popular technology, many work tasks, and much leisure time.

The Financial Mess

by The Cutter Business Technology Council (January 2008)

Let's face it, nobody today is thinking about anything other than the unraveling global economy and its effect on our companies and our lives. So we'd be crazy to write about any other subject. Our topic is trends, and this is the mother of all trends. Ending the last depression took a Roosevelt and a war. Who knows what will end this one?

The Dark Side of Your 'Net Neighbors

by Mark Seiden, The Cutter Business Technology Council (July 2008)

The forces that oppose crime and fraud on the Internet are almost completely overwhelmed by numerous and ingenious would-be exploiters.

Listening to Your Customer (Or Not)

by The Cutter Business Technology Council, Vince Kellen (September 2007)

If there's a mantra in IT, it's "Listen to your customer." We've had that preached at us -- and preached it ourselves at others -- almost from the beginning. In this month's Opinion, Council members, along with Cutter Consortium Senior Consultant Vince Kellen, look at the wisdom of this advice. Not surprisingly, they detect ways it can skewer you -- and ways that not following it can hurt you as well. So you almost can't win. What else is new?

Bye-Bye Browsers, Goodbye GUIs -- Hello ???

by Ed Yourdon, The Cutter Business Technology Council (April 2007)

Driven by ongoing technology trends of miniaturization and mobile computing combined with an increasing phenomenon of information overload, more diversified groups of users and types of application environments, and user backlash against user-hostile interfaces, computer-based products and systems will gradually shift away from traditional user interfaces in the next few years and will adopt a variety of new forms and factors.

The Defeminization of IT

by Lynne Ellyn, Christine Davis, The Cutter Business Technology Council (November 2006)

After decades of employment gains in information technology, women have quickly reversed the trend and are now rapidly abandoning IT -- leading to the defeminization of IT.