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Cutter is paying attention to IT governance in 2009. The September Cutter Benchmark Review (CBR) reports the results of the recent Cutter IT Governance Survey. The December Cutter IT Journal, which we're editing, is about IT governance. Recent CIO surveys done by others place IT governance in the top echelon of concerns.
Someone has an "ah-ha!" moment. She has read an article, talked with a friend, or heard a great presentation at a conference. "I think we should be doing agile in our company," she says. Some companies, particularly small ones, can simply try agile on their next project without much fuss. In large companies, it is usually a lot harder.
The industrial model that promoted manufacturing and engineering is slowly being phased out to usher in a new digital economy powered by developments in networking and information management. The old model placed controls on everything, including information flow, and permitted sharing of knowledge only through hierarchies of roles within the organization.
Data integration is a key issue for any enterprise. If data from multiple sources can't be mixed and matched, it gets hard to gather the right information at the right time. As a result, it becomes a major hurdle to make informed decisions within or across an enterprise and for employees to reach set goals. How can one overcome this obstruction of the lifeblood of a company (i.e., enterprise data)? One promising set of technologies is based on the Semantic Web.
The Internet and Web have enabled easy and nearly instantaneous dissemination and exchange of different types of information almost free of cost. Most information currently on the Web is document (page) based and presented in textual natural language, because it is primarily meant for use by humans. It's hard for computers to understand and make use of this information content, as it may lack structure, precise meaning, or context, or because a given word or phrase could refer to more than one thing.