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.
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.
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.
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 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).
