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There have been a lot of "studies" on job migration and outsourcing over the past five years that try to position outsourcing as something political: outsourcing creates jobs; outsourcing is the inevitable consequence of globalization; outsourcing will destroy the US labor force. But what's really going on? How do we avoid the spin that proponents and critics of outsourcing present every time the topic comes up?
Over the years, I've had the pleasure of working in a range of IT organizations around the world, and I've often worked with, or at least reviewed, many of the enterprise architecture (EA) teams within those organizations. In all cases, the EA team is staffed with some of the best and brightest within IT, all of whom have the organization's best interests at heart.
The latest announcement by open source reporting tools vendor JasperSoft that it has a new business intelligence (BI) server designed to make it easier for corporate and commercial software developers to build reporting environments got me thinking the other day about the extent to which organizations are actually embracing open source BI tools.
In this issue of Cutter Benchmark Review, we focus on a topic that is dear to my heart and to that of many IT professionals I know: innovation in IT departments.
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IT Innovation Is Alive and Well
In this issue of Cutter Benchmark Review, we focus on a topic that is dear to my heart and to that of many IT professionals I know: innovation in IT departments.
INTRODUCTION
In our recent survey, we asked people to tell us about a particular instance of their use of IT as a tool for, and a source of, innovation in their business. In his article, George describes and interprets these data as they give us specific insights into the shape and vigor of IT innovation in the real world. I'm taking a somewhat more distant view, rearing back a bit for a glimpse of the whole. I'm looking more at questions raised than at answers presented.
In this issue of Cutter Benchmark Review, we focus on IT innovation. Our contributors this month are George Westerman, a research scientist with MIT's Center for Information Systems Research (CISR); and Lee Devin, Professor of Theater Emeritus at Swarthmore College and author on the subject of innovation.