1 | 2001

Introduction
Rob Austin

Letters to the Editor
Tom DeMarco

Organizing for E-Business: Lessons from the Retail Drug Industry
George Westerman

Anatomy of a Modern E-Finance Business Unit
Lester Shuda and Surya Kolluri

Patterns for Managing the Rhythm of E-Commerce
David Kane, David Dikel, and James R. Wilson

E-Business: Building It Right from the Ground Up
Monty Sharma

Legacy.NET
Don Estes

The Rise and Fall of Information Janitors
Tomek Byzia, Marek Gmerski, and Borys Stokalski



Next Month's Issue

Security
As next month's guest editor Jeffrey Voas observes: "Digital information is our newest measure of wealth, and that provides the incentive to engage in information warfare, cyber-terrorism, and other malicious activities against information assets." In the February issue of Cutter IT Journal, we will discuss how organizations can protect themselves from such attacks and why preventive measures are not enough to ensure survivability.


Reorganizing IT for e-business is a very broad topic. Its breadth, in fact, is one of the major reasons it presents a formidable challenge to most businesses. Unlike many of the changes business leaders have long had to contend with, such as shifts in interest rates, labor costs, or customer preferences, the emergence of commerce on the Web forces reexamination of every aspect of what a company does.