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When an organization decides to hire an outside IT provider, it first must review its previously established IT requirements and set guide

Web 2.0 and social networking sites are continuing to develop in response to user needs. They provide an important new form of communication and social interaction with numerous repercussions in the world outside, as reflected in recent stories about Facebook and YouTube celebrity and use in the 2008 US presidential campaigns.

This week, we're taking a look back at the five most intriguing articles published in Cutter's Innovation & Enterprise Agility practice over this past year.

A few months back I was at eBay's headquarters in San Jose, California, USA, having a conversation about performance reviews with one of its executives. Like most large companies, eBay offers bonuses to its employees based on individual performance, which is expected to have improved from the previous work period, be it yearly, semiannually, or quarterly.

Hace algunos meses estuve en las oficinas generales de eBay en San Jose, California, conversando con uno de sus ejecutivos acerca de evaluaciones de desempeño de empleados.

It's hard to discuss transformation when the current state is so anchored in the previous century. But as more and more 20th-century warriors pass the baton to the next generation of business technology leaders, we'll see major changes in the whole business technology relationship.

I had the pleasure of hearing Cutter Senior Consultant Michael Mah present to Latin American CIOs at the recent Cutter Latin America Summit in Mexico City.

Since we're approaching the end of the year, I thought I'd offer some predictions and comments on some of the key developments I see taking place with the market for, and the application of, BI and data warehousing in the New Year.