Leadership is critical to the success of all enterprises. Nowhere is this need more apparent than in the IT world. The best technologists are often promoted and then left without guidance to learn the leadership ropes on the job, resulting in demoralized teams, overbudget projects, and a lack of project direction. This Executive Report argues that a more structured approach to leadership is both possible and necessary.

Enterprise architect teams struggle to explain and justify their role, and to demonstrate tangible, practical, and measurable benefits from their work. The rewards from architecting are seen as long-term outcomes, value from EA is not measured effectively, and EA is only seen as an optional consideration. This Executive Report shows how organizations are replacing this mind-set with one that regards enterprise architecture as essential and nonoptional. 

Measuring the value of IT can best be determined by building an IT investment portfolio where customer goals drive the IT projects.

Mobile BI consists of the ability to access, view, and interact with corporate data on smartphones and tablets via mobile reports, interactive dashboards, visualizations, ad hoc reporting, and other functionality. This Executive Report examines the application of mobile BI with a focus on the use of tablets in the enterprise. It includes potential business benefits afforded by using tablets for mobile BI as well as the technology, products, applications, and issues associated with implementing mobile BI applications.

Mobile BI consists of the ability to access, view, and interact with corporate data on smartphones and tablets via mobile reports, interactive dashboards, visualizations, ad hoc reporting, and other fun

As we explore in this Executive Report, your agile teams might not live up to their full potential due to an inappropriate work environment. Agile management innovations (AMIs) shape the organization’s environment to unleash the full potential of agile employees.

As we explore in this Executive Report, your agile teams might not live up to their full potential due to an inappropriate work environment. Agile management innovations (AMIs) shape the organization’s environment to unleash the full potential of agile employees. AMIs inspire innovations at the management level, providing greater success in terms of productivity, innovation, and employee retention. Agile management innovations (AMIs) help organizations work better with their agile teams and help those teams be more productive. AMIs create an environment supporting a state of flow for the employees through an emphasis on autonomy, mastery, and purpose.

Every discipline goes through phases when the terminology is ambiguous or requires frequent explanations, or when novices join the club an

A user experience analysis framework (UXAF) is an all-encompassing view of a user's experience with a business that transcends the "known" areas of usability of systems.

CIOs not only need to know what to do, they need to know how to go about it in a way that gains respect from two very different constituencies: businesspeople and technologists. This Executive Report addresses situations facing new CIOs based on where they were before and what happened to their predecessors.

Architectures and associated change programs are increasing in complexity.

Many, many years after enterprise resource planning and over two decades into data warehousing, many business executives are still frustrated over their inability to trust their company's data. They have spent millions on new technologies, only to find that the state of their data assets has deteriorated. This significantly reduces the business value of their investments. One big reason for this continuing data chaos is that companies do not manage their data as a business asset, and there is no one watching the store. In this Executive Report, we look at the role of chief data officer and why this role is so important. Not a Cutter client yet? Download a free copy of the report now.

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This Executive Report proposes personalized dashboards for all managers in an enterprise as well as an active business model based on the Value Delivery Modeling Language (VDML). The report describes the VDML concepts and facilities that model the operation of the enterprise, the mechanisms for integrating the model with operational business systems, and, finally, the implications of the shared VDML model and modeling facilities to the future evolution of the enterprise.

Organizational change is never easy. However, successful transformations can and do happen.

The role of the architect and the scope of architecture have steadily evolved from a focus purely on IT to one that also inc

As we explore in this Executive Report, the days of IT managed as a "cost overhead" need to end.

The rules of the game for attainment of commercial success by established firms are changing faster than anyone can say "change." Technological excellence, of course, still counts. However, it primarily counts as an element of nested business designs.

The rules of the game for attainment of commercial success by established firms are changing faster than anyone can say "change." Technological excellence, of course, still counts. However, it primarily counts as an element of nested business designs. In such designs, the ability of the company itself to be affected through learning and changing is as important as its aspirations to affect customers, markets, and value chains.

This Executive Report introduces the API Economy to CxO-level executives of industries outside IT. It follows a novel dialogue format, as if it were a transcription of an introductory consulting session with the CEO and CIO of a fictional company in the oil and gas industry. The report defines API and the API Economy, discusses some of the many API business models, argues that this economy extends a proven software architecture onto the Internet, presents that architecture as a tool for thinking about business models, and discusses the role of developer relations in making APIs successful. The report then applies these ideas to the task of solving one of the fictional company's billion-dollar business problems using an API-based approach.

Most mergers fail to live up to their promise, and the difference between success and failure lies mostly in the ability to integrate employees into a new whole after the merger

Today's data production occurs at a faster and faster rate.

Customer focus and attention to end-to-end processes are essential to success in improving business performance. This Executive Report outlines how organizations can deploy a process-based view and thereby become more adaptive and improve business performance. The tight linkage between process management principles and business architecture enables clarity in today's complex business-IT transformation landscape, facilitating closer business-IT alignment.

Getting a group of people to move together toward a common objective is never easy.