Many people think of outsourcing as a way to cut costs, but after nearly two decades of global outsourcing, we know that outsourcing initiatives don't always yield the expected value. In next month's issue, we'll explore the many factors organizations must address when deciding where best to source IT services.
In this issue, we tackle the following question: how are we doing with the acquisition and retention of mainframe skills in the face of the looming mass retirement of baby boomers?
More than ever, companies are responsible for ensuring the privacy of the personally identifiable information (PII) in their care. The fact that PII is often in the hands of personnel using powerful mobile computers and storage devices away from corporate facilities only complicates matters. Not surprisingly, information security and privacy incidents are on the rise, along with growing public awareness of them.
This issue of Cutter Benchmark Review focuses on a topic of great interest to both information systems (IS) professionals and executives in other areas: strategic information systems alignment. For the purpose of this issue, we define alignment as the fit, or correspondence, between business and information systems strategy.
Once dismissed as a vacuous Silicon Valley buzzword, Web 2.0 is gradually becoming recognized as an important collection of technologies, business strategies, and social trends. In this issue, we will discuss the technologies and concepts that underlie Web 2.0 — and what they mean for the enterprise.
