In each free biweekly edition of The Cutter Edge, you'll find research, insight, and advice crucial to helping you navigate the spectrum of challenges facing business executives. From the impact of technology change to the impact your organization has on the environment; ways to improve corporate culture; how to make innovation a differentiator, and more, The Cutter Edge hits upon all the diverse business and technology strategy issues today's executives are facing.

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Recent Issues

Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Strategies, Project to Product: Fact or Fiction?, more ...

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This issue of The Cutter Edge explore strategies for making diversity, equity, and inclusion a strategic priority in your organization, why software development and change should be managed as a process, and more.

Scaling Agile Right, Heart of Architecture, more.

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3 November 2020

Welcome to The Cutter Edge. In each free issue, you'll find research, insight, and advice crucial to helping you navigate the spectrum of challenges technology change brings.


Why Make a Digital Shift, Paving a Path to Innovation, more!

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This week's Cutter Edge explores why and how to make a digital shift, how to pave a path to innovation, the strategies to increase creativity and innovation in your organization, and more!

Five-Stage Strategy Execution, Fast Feedback Processes, Production Line IT

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In this edition of the Cutter Edge, you'll explore a five-stage strategy execution scenario and the role of business architecture within each stage; how fast feedback processes, measurable outcomes, and empowerment can help businesses improve the quality and efficiency of their work; how shifting to IT development production lines can enhance software delivery, and more.

The Cutter Edge: Why Agile Fails, Paradigm Shift in Healthcare, Automotive Industry Strategies, more!

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This week's edition of The Cutter Edge takes a look at why agile adoption fails, why digitization in healthcare is an imperative, how the automotive industry can amplify its competitive advantage, and more!

The Cutter Edge: Residuality Theory to the Rescue, Improve Acquisitions with EA, and more!

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This issue of The Cutter Edge explores how the software system design process can be streamlined and improved by applying Residuality Theory, how engaging enterprise architects in the acquisition process allows for a more comprehensive strategic planning framework to facilitate better acquisition performance, and more!

The Cutter Edge: Creating Value Streams, Sustaining Digital Shift Momentum, Embracing Complexity Science

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The edition of The Cutter Edge explores how agile budgeting can create value as a revenue stream generator, why communication is so essential in a digital shift, how to improve software system design, and more.

The Cutter Edge: Crisis Planning Urgency, Whole-Company Transformation, Business Agility Aches and Pains

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This edition of The Cutter Edge examines business strategies necessary to prepare for crises, identifies the tactics to whole company transformation, explores the processes and practices that support business agility, and more.

The Cutter Edge: Agile - Not Just for Software, Time Management in the New Norm, EA for Strategic Transformation

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This edition of The Cutter Edge explores adapting agile practices to non-software organizations, time management in a new norm, leveraging EA for strategic transformation, and more!

The Cutter Edge: Capability Models for Business Advantage, Social & Emotional Project Dynamics

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This edition of The Cutter Edge discusses the business advantage of capability models, improving project performance by identifying the social and emotional dynamics, and more.

The Cutter Edge: Disrupting Agile, 5 Keys to Digital Shift Success, Intelligent Automation Research

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This edition of The Cutter Edge discusses why disruption is needed to keep agile alive and relevant, identifies five key factors essential to delivering value and realizing a digital shift, and more.

The Cutter Edge: Successful Ecosystems Require Solid Business Architectures, Enterprise Agility Use It or Lose It, more

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In this edition of The Cutter Edge, you'll discover practical exercises that will help your organization achieve enterprise agility, how to create a solid business architectures that underpin successful business ecosystems, and how to prepare for the post-Corona era in the oil & gas industry.

The Cutter Edge: Three Practices to Improve Employee Engagement, Post-Pandemic Auto Industry Recovery, and more.

In this edition of The Cutter Edge, you'll explore three practices to improve employee engagement, strategies for post-pandemic auto industry recovery, and more.

The Cutter Edge: Misunderstanding the COBOL crisis, DevSecOps red flags, automotive industry tips ...

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This edition of The Cutter Edge highlights a long-overdue infrastructure issue brought to light by COVID-19, the missteps taken with DevSecOps efforts, tips for the automotive industry, and more.

The Cutter Edge: Lessons in Wartime Medicine Decision Making, Managing Risk with AI and ML, EA Virtual Training

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in this edition of The Cutter Edge, we explore decision making lessons in wartime medicine, the impact of COVID-19 on the business technology sector, managing risk with AI and machine learning, and more!

The Cutter Edge: CEOs Share Crisis Planning Insight, Blockchain for Healthcare Monitoring, High-Stakes Decision Making

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In this edition of The Cutter Edge, 25 CEOs and business leaders share their response to the COVID-19 crisis, the use of blockchain in healthcare to manage and monitor COVID-19 patients is explored, and more!

The Cutter Edge: Softer Side of Remote Work, Lizards & COVID 19, Distributed Team Virtual Training

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This issue of The Cutter Edge discusses the softer challenges of remote work such as trust, morale, and culture; how COVID-19 can help architects design systems to survive unpredictable situations, and more ...

The Cutter Edge: Cybersecurity in 2020, Autonomous Systems Rising; Risk Management in a Time of Coronavirus

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In this edition of The Cutter Edge, we address the trends in Cybersecurity that will impact the year ahead, how autonomous systems are at a tipping point with the convergence of new technologies, what you can do to address and manage the risks inherent in a crisis, and more!


The Cutter Edge: 3 Business Architecture Predictions, Disputing Agile's Relevancy, and more.

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This issue of The Cutter Edge explores three specific business architecture scenarios that will lead to increased relevance and leadership, why the validity of agile practices are being questioned, and more!


The Cutter Edge: Technology Regulation Failure, What's Behind Information Mistrust, and more ...

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This edition of The Cutter Edge explores ten critical areas in need of technology regulaton, the factors leading to information mistrust, the roadblocks to digital transformation success, and more!


The Cutter Edge: Strategic Architecture, Path to Legacy Transformation, Digital Business Roadblocks

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This issue of The Cutter Edge discusses the use of an architectural strategy for digital business success, why complementary paths to legacy transformation offer an easy way to acquire new digital capabilities and intellectual capital, and the three roadblocks standing in the way of digital transformation. 


The Cutter Edge: Is Blockchain Here to Stay?, 3 Digital Architecture Pillars, Digital Transformation

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This issue of The Cutter Edge explores how the next two to three years will be important for blockchain in terms of implementing proper regulations and standards to enable wider adoption; why architecture must refocus on three core principles to play a pivotal role in business transformation, and more!


The Cutter Edge: Keeping the Digital Train on Track, Disrupting Business Architecture

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This issue of The Cutter Edge explores how to keep the digital train moving with minimal friction, cost, and effort; the characteristics that encapsulate how successful business architecture practitioners think and act, and more!


The Cutter Edge: AI’s Potential for Social & Economic Disruption, the Cognitive Enterprise, Winning with Digital Transformation

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This edition of The Cutter Edge explores the social, economic, privacy, and ethical issues associated with AI adoption; how the cognitive enterprise offers a business-driven vision for organizations, and more!


The Cutter Edge: Adapting to Next Software Frontier, Mastering Sustainable Software, Blockchain Trends Webinar, Digital Shift

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This edition of The Cutter Edge discusses how leaders can prepare themselves for the changes in the software industry; how to master sustainability as technology continues to evolve; what's up and coming with blockchain, and more!