In this issue of Cutter Benchmark Review, we focus on a topic that is dear to my heart and to that of many IT professionals I know: innovation in IT departments.
May 2006
May 2006
In the first installment of "Securing Cyberspace," we asked, "Is it time to rethink our strategy?" The answer was a resounding "yes." In next month's issue, our authors discuss a bevy of innovative ways we can protect our cyber infrastructure, from managing cyber risk through cyber insurance to reengineering the base protocols of TCP/IP.
In this issue:- Securing Cyberspace: What Exactly Should We Be Doing?
- Opening Statement: Securing Cyberspace: What Exactly Should We Be Doing?
- How to Stop Talking About - and Start Fixing - Cyber Security Problems
- Moving Beyond Security: The Resilience Imperative
- Contracting for Information Security in Commercial Transactions: A New Tool for Managing Risk
- The Role of Cyber Insurance in Fighting the War on Terror
- Payments System Security: No Longer Just a "Company Issue"
- Forging a Public-Private Partnership: The "Wonk-Free" Approach to Cyber Security
April 2006
Since this is the halfway point of my tenure as editor of Cutter Benchmark Review, I thought this would be a good time to give you, our readers, a tour of our production process. When preparing for a new issue, we typically start by looking at the set of Cutter Online Resource Centers and, trying to balance our coverage of topics amongst them, formulate ideas about what you, our readers, would most value: knowledge management, security, privacy, new IT trends, IT innovation (next issue), and so on.
In this issue:April 2006
Why are seminars on measuring IT performance so well attended but implementation of performance management programs so rare? Could it be that we are afraid to manage IT like a business? Tune in next month as we look IT performance management full in the face — and live to tell the tale. Our expert authors will show you how to design a dashboard with leading indicators that help you take action.
In this issue:- The CIO Dashboard and IT Performance Management: Key to Demonstrating IT’s Value?
- Opening Statement: The CIO Dashboard and IT Performance Management: Key to Demonstrating IT’s Value?
- Getting on the Same Page: Dashboard Development from Planning to Implementation
- Mitigating Metrics Madness: How to Tell KPIs from Mere Metrics
- Action-Oriented Metrics for IT Performance Management
- Measuring Business Value from IT Investments
- In Pursuit of Value
- CIO Dashboards: Flying by Instrumentation
March 2006
Whether they're driven by the need for business-IT alignment, the spread of service-oriented architectures, or other factors, enterprise architecture (EA) programs are clearly proliferating. In this month's Cutter IT Journal, you'll see how Subaru's EA effort transformed a maze of overlapping applications and unsupported technology platforms into a simple, flexible IT environment that keeps pace with changing business needs.
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