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November 2015
IT Budgeting in 2015: Folks, It’s Time to Remodel
This issue of Cutter Benchmark Review, the 10th and final installment in our annual IT budgeting series, can be summed up by the subtitle: "Folks, It's Time to Remodel." This theme manifests itself in three ways. The first two relate to IT budgeting practices; the third relates to CBR itself.
- IT Budgeting in 2015: Folks, It's Time to Remodel — Opening Statement
- IT Budgets: A Decade of Data
- 10 Years of the IT Budget Survey: A Look Back
- Cutter Benchmark Review: A Personal Farewell
- IT Budget for 2015: Survey Data
- Farewell to Cutter Benchmark Review: Thanks for the Insights and Friends
- Cutter’s Farewell to Cutter Benchmark Review
January 2015
Weather and Whither: IT Trends in 2015
"The annual IT trends issue deals with a very complex and hard- to-predict environment that is extremely important to our daily experience and endeavors."
— Joseph Feller, Editor
I was recently invited to give a technology forecast at a partner company's annual user conference. I agreed but made it very clear at the start of my presentation that I was going to provide the forecast in the style of Met Éireann.
April 2014
The Internet of Things: Welcome to the Global Computer
"Of all the different types of technological change we have experienced in the last 1,000 years, it is the technologies of information and communications that seem to most capture our imaginations."
— Joseph Feller, Editor
At the moment, the Internet is buzzing with folks who are disappointed that the year 2015 (in which the late 1980's film Back to the Future: Part II is set) is upon us, and there is not a single flying skateboard in sight.
March 2014
Does IT Lie on the Critical Path? A Look Back at the 2014 IT Budget
This is CBR's ninth annual IT trends issue. For nearly a decade we've gathered and analyzed data across a broad range of IT topics: analytics, IT spending, hiring and outsourcing, IT's role in innovation and value creation, social media, mobile computing, the cloud, security, and so on. Like all issues of CBR, each IT trends issue gives you an up-to-the-moment look at the "vital signs" of the industry. But more importantly, because we are able to look at how signs change over time, every year each IT trends issue just keeps getting smarter and smarter.
February 2014
Gaining Momentum, But Where Are We Going? IT Trends in 2014
This is CBR's ninth annual IT trends issue. For nearly a decade we've gathered and analyzed data across a broad range of IT topics: analytics, IT spending, hiring and outsourcing, IT's role in innovation and value creation, social media, mobile computing, the cloud, security, and so on. Like all issues of CBR, each IT trends issue gives you an up-to-the-moment look at the "vital signs" of the industry. But more importantly, because we are able to look at how signs change over time, every year each IT trends issue just keeps getting smarter and smarter.