"Efficiency is not the winning card. The competitive game is won by businesses that know how to balance entrepreneurial and managerial modes of organizing in the innovation process."
-- Daniel Hjorth, Guest Editor
The trial-and-error approach to innovation is risky, ambiguous, and offers uncertain ROI. We need to take a more predictable approach to developing innovative solutions.
This month's Cutter Benchmark Review marks the third installment in our annual series on IT budgets and the yearly IT budgeting process. The budgeting process is one of critical importance to IT and business professionals in our subscriber base. It is the importance of this process that leads us to address it each year. Doing so also allows us to comment on year-over-year changes and monitor how the priorities of the organizations we survey change over time.
In this issue we look at forecasting and forecasting techniques in the business and organizational setting.
"There appears to be a bit of a paradox between the massive and recent consolidation in ES and the excitement for and growth of SaaS and E 2.0. If E 2.0 and SaaS are such great opportunities, why are vendors still consolidating?"
-- Vince Kellen, Guest Editor
Enterprise software (ES) is changing. Adoption of SOA, SaaS, and E 2.0 technologies is breathing new life into the ES market. This bodes well for firms seeking more ES flexibility and ease of use.
"The prevailing traditional project management paradigm is, at best, struggling to deliver to the increasing expectations of business and government clients. At worst, it has become increasingly focused inward on certification, bureaucracy, and formal complexity."
-- Rob Thomsett, Guest Editor
