Today, every company needs to become digital, but what this entails will differ depending on industry, company size, and competitive landscape. Focusing on the right aspects of the digital shift — and getting the balancing act right between maintaining productivity and accelerating change — is vital if a company is to thrive rather than fall by the wayside. This issue of CBTJ will help you navigate what could be the most important journey your business will ever take.

With all that is new and changing before our eyes, we asked the Cutter Consortium team of experts to weigh in on the technologies, strategies, and business models that will have the most relevance this year and beyond. Their responses — delivered in this issue of Cutter Business Technology Journal — range from the need for more tech­nology regulation to what technologies will be most transformative, from guidelines for keeping our data safe to minimizing the profusion of misinformation. 

This issue of CBTJ will help you understand that a data architecture should be much more than merely a technology roadmap. To be of any value to people in an organization, the architecture should guide the people in an organization to an understanding of how to organize for ever-changing information requirements.

This issue of CBTJ continues the conversation we began in the last CBTJ and focuses on blockchain technology adoption beyond cryptocurrencies and financial services. The authors explore areas such as energy and utilities and government and present real examples of successful DLT implementations. They share their practical experiences in overcoming and addressing some of the known issues with blockchain projects.

In this Cutter Business Technology Journal, we take a broad look at the opportunities and disruptions that blockchain creates. Our authors explore reasons why blockchain application is still slow regardless of overall interest in the technology.