February 2012
January 2012
2012: The Dawn of a New Era
With the rise of social media, the ubiquity of consumer technology, and the emergence of Big Data tools and cloud computing, 2012 will go down in history as the transition to a new way of computing for organizations.
January 2012
"We have the opportunity here not only to 'take the pulse' of the IT industry on various topics -- adoption levels, HR activities, IT management strategies, and more -- but also to compare this year's snapshot with the past six years, giving us insight into the ever-changing landscape of business technology."
-- Joseph Feller, Editor
December 2011
Big Enterprises
Cross-silo communication is harder in large enterprises, but they’re the ones that need it the most.
Small Changes
Bad ITIL implementations often resist change because of risks, but making frequent, small changes can reduce the risks.
November 2011
By allowing an organization to analyze and visualize the entire business and apply business blueprints to both strategic transformation initiatives and ongoing business challenges, business architecture becomes an enabler of critical business strategies. This issue of Cutter IT Journal brings these factors to light through five articles by business architecture practitioners. These articles discuss business architecture in the context of strategic planning, requirements analysis, holistic business analysis, strategic transformation, and organizational transformation.
In this issue:- Business Architecture in Practice: Lessons from the Trenches -- Opening Statement
- The Town Planners of Enterprise Innovation
- Effective Customer Requirements Definition Using Business Architecture
- The Tale of Two BAs: Why Business Architecture Is the Business Analysis Practice’s Best Friend
- A Capability-Based Approach to Strategic Transformational Initiatives
- Creating a New Multidisciplinary Cancer Center Using Business Architecture