At around 16 pages, Executive Reports offer a deep, strategic look into a cutting edge issue, and serve as foundations to developing your own approaches. Short abstracts on the cover of each report help you immediately understand how the subject matter might impact your enterprise.
Meetings and Consensus Decisionmaking
Tom DeMarco, Cutter Business Technology Council, Cutter Business Technology Council, Cutter Business Technology Council
Domain
Collaboration
Assertion #114An accelerating trend toward consensus decisionmaking is overtaking Western economy companies. A direct side effect of this trend is a kind of Parkinson's Law of Meetings: "Time dedicated to meetings is expanding to fill the working day."
IT in a Hunt-Kill-Eat Economy
Cutter Business Technology Council
Taken together, the Cutter Business Technology Council Fellows meet and work with representatives of scores of IT organizations in any given month. When we put our heads together to find patterns in our experience, it's hard to miss one evident fact: the mood in IT these days is glum.
Time to Get Real: Moving Toward the Real-Time Enterprise
Stowe Boyd
Read the Executive Summary
Observe due measure, for right timing is in all things the most important factor.
Telepresence: Removing Barriers to Collaboration
Tom DeMarco, Cutter Business Technology Council, Cutter Business Technology Council, Cutter Business Technology Council
Domain
Collaboration
Assertion #89The gradual reinvention of the telephone, scheduled to take place over the next five to seven years, will strongly influence the ability of geographically distributed teams -- particularly IT teams -- to function.
Innovation Interruptus
Robert Austin, Cutter Business Technology Council, Cutter Business Technology Council, Cutter Business Technology Council
Domain
IT Industry
Business Continuity Planning
David Higgins
"Anything that can go wrong will go wrong."
-- Murphy's Law
MDA in Action: An Anatomy of a Platform-Independent Model
Terry Merriman