The Crowd Is a Great PartnerCrowds -- whether employees, customers, or the anonymous global community -- represent a flexible and powerful resource for firms seeking to accomplish tasks, process information more efficiently, or accelerate product, service, and process innovation. |
We're in the midst of another tough economic year. That's clear across the board for anyone who doesn't have his or her head in the sand, or in the clouds. Pick your metaphor here, but in either case it's a reality that almost all IT professionals and business managers are battling a continued tough slog through rough fiscal terrain. This issue of Cutter Benchmark Review is thus an especially important one in its relevance to the very real challenges that we all face these days.
Our goal with this issue is to provide some benchmarking data on the state of the adoption and use of post-PC devices in an attempt to understand whether they have become pervasive and how organizations are approaching their integration in the firm's overall infrastructure. If you need ammunition to spur your action into better action when it comes to a tablet strategy, you can find it here — we have done our job!
The Real DealThe cyber security threat is a grave and growing national security concern. | A Real StealNonsense. Most cyber threat warnings are being hyped for personal gain and profit. |
"What is the cyber security threat, and how worried -- if at all -- should we be?"
-- Robert N. Charette, Guest Editor
Old Wine in a New BottleThe value chain concept dates to 1985, so if it was able to ground business-IT discussions in a rational assessment of IT's contribution to value generation, we'd know it by now. The revival of this notion among architects is going to make IT sound as if they care about business concepts, but the only sure benefit will be to consulting firms' revenues. |
