In this issue of Cutter Benchmark Review, we focus on a topic that has been in and out of the limelight since the mid-1990s when it became one of the hottest topics in boardrooms, management publications, and consulting briefs: knowledge management (KM).
March 2006
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.
In this issue:February 2006
"Development is about delivering value through the proper management of projects; governance is about managing portfolio resources and funding the right projects at the right time."
- William B. Walton, Guest Editor
In this issue:- The Role of Strategy, Planning, and Budgeting in an Agile Organization
- The Role of Strategy, Planning, and Budgeting in an Agile Organization: Opening Statement
- Investing in Agile: Aligning Agile Initiatives with Enterprise Goals
- Agile Strategies for a Dynamic Environment
- Get Real with Strategic Budgeting
- Agile Strategies for a Dynamic Environment
- Coping with the Unexpected: Integrating HRO and Agile
February 2006
Forecasting the future - or more precisely, attempting to forecast the future - is an exercise as old as mankind itself. The ancient Greek and Roman civilizations, for example, engaged in all kinds of rituals and propitiatory sacrifices to ensure good fortune in their future endeavors. Back then, as it is still today, there were all sorts of individuals whose role was to "peer into the future" for the benefit of the uninitiated. More often than not, these foretellers offered up more questions than answers.
January 2006
In the last issue of CBR, we focused on an important and timely topic: security and IT risk management.There I made the case for why the "uninitiated public" has a strong incentive to care about security: "The increasing prevalence of computer systems as well as the growing amount of our personal data that is stored by business firms, nonprofit organizations, and governmental entities (and can therefore be compromised) suggests that even the uninitiated public should pay attention." But, as we learn from our experts in this installment of CBR, our personal data being compr