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Opportunity Knocks

Jim Brosseau

Is Your Organization Ready for CRM?

Lisa Loftis
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The Rewards of Risk Management

Robert Charette

[Excerpted from an article in the September 2000 Business-IT Strategies Executive Report.]


Outsourcing and Management Agility, Part 1

Michael Mah
  Outsourcing and Management Agility series: Part 1 Part 2

BPM

Paul Harmon

Web Services Security Products

Tom Welsh
  For more on Web services security products, see the February 2004 issue of Web Services Strategies, available from Cutter Consortium at +1 781 641 9876, fax +1 781 648 1950, or e-mail service@cutter.com.

 


Tiger Squads

Jim Highsmith

Assessing IT Portfolios to Maximize IT's Bottom-Line Impact

Bob Benson, Tom Bugnitz, Tom Bugnitz, Tom Walton, William Walton, William Walton, Kaleb Walton

Microsoft and Sun

Paul Harmon

Developing Common Sense

Robert Charette

[Excerpted from an article in the March 1995 issue of Cutter IT Journal . Used here with permission from the ITABHI Corp.]

Commonsense decision making separates the great companies from the merely good. True common sense, however, is not innate but acquired.

The great companies have learned -- most often after suffering painful failures -- that commonsense decision making requires:


Building a Disruptive Organization

Ken Orr

Sometimes I wish that I worked for a large organization; one with lots of fancy, expensive technology. I have a small organization and we have a very limited budget for gadgets and new toys. I sometimes feel a little deprived. But recently, while visiting a client, it occurred to me that working for a small organization in this day and age is a distinct advantage.