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Executive Summary
Developing and Implementing a Core Competence-Based Strategy
All people gravitate toward their strengths. The best cook makes the meals for the family. The mechanically inclined person fixes the squeaky door. The plant lover tends the garden.
Domain
Software Development
Assertion #43The "task and artifact" focus of traditional process improvement has run its course. The next wave focuses instead on skills and relationships. This trend requires process specialists to gain new skills, retool, and rethink their relationship to software projects.
As described in Cutter Consortium's Business-IT Strategies Executive Report, " The New Risk Management" (Vol. III, No. 9), today's business environment contains more diverse kinds of risks and rewards than ever before, ones that few organizations have much, if any, experience in managing.
Responses to a recent Cutter Consortium survey on e-business strategy raise interesting questions about the role IT organizations are playing in the move to e-business.
Executive Update
Obstacles to Getting More from IT
Cutter Consortium's online business-IT strategies survey asks respondents to identify the leading obstacles to getting more from information technology in their companies. Figure 1 summarizes the results, which are surprising in some areas. See how the results compare to your situation, and consider how these obstacles can be overcome.
I spent a wonderful couple of hours with one of my favorite CIOs yesterday discussing the pros and cons of outsourcing. This is a person who over the last couple of years has pulled more and more of her organization's IT functions back into her shop.
