Find analysis of data from Cutter's ongoing industry research efforts, brief treatments of topics that don't require the in-depth research of an Executive Report, updates on previously-covered topics, and more, in 2-4 page Executive Updates.

Thinking Counts When It Comes to Strategy

Steve Andriole

Some companies constantly adjust their strategy -- business models, processes, and responses to the competition -- while other companies have offices of strategic planning, which conduct annual strategic planning exercises that involve lots of senior people and take several months to complete.


Supply Chain Intelligence: Development Issues (Part VII)

Curt Hall
  Supply Chain Intelligence: Development Issues series: Part I

Improve Your Chances of Becoming Agile: Part I

Wayne Bailey
  Improve Your Chances of Becoming Agile series:Part I Part II

Improve Your Chances of Becoming Agile: Part II

Wayne Bailey
  Improve Your Chances of Becoming Agile series: Part IPart II

The IT Burnout Phenomenon (Part I)

Ed Yourdon
  The IT Burnout Phenomenon: Part 1

The IT Burnout Phenomenon (Part I)

Ed Yourdon
  The IT Burnout Phenomenon: Part 1

Business Technology Management: Annual Overview of 2002

Steve Andriole

Sometimes it helps to step back a little and assess how we're doing, to identify the management trends that seem to be taking hold. The data we have collected over the past year suggests a number of trends -- mostly good -- that we should identify and discuss. These include:


Business Technology Management: Annual Overview of 2002

Steve Andriole

Sometimes it helps to step back a little and assess how we're doing, to identify the management trends that seem to be taking hold. The data we have collected over the past year suggests a number of trends -- mostly good -- that we should identify and discuss. These include:


Business Process Outsourcing: An Emerging Business Strategy

Robert Reynolds, Jr.

Business process outsourcing (BPO) is a corporate strategy that is gaining in popularity.


Business Process Outsourcing: An Emerging Business Strategy

Robert Reynolds, Jr.

Business process outsourcing (BPO) is a corporate strategy that is gaining in popularity.


Funding: Who Pays the Technology Bills?

Steve Andriole

How much are you spending on technology? Who pays for what? How do you determine funding responsibilities? And how do you determine how to pay for infrastructure, applications, R&D, and ongoing technology management? These are huge issues -- especially when you consider that the US spends more than one trillion dollars a year on hardware, software, and services. Yes -- a trillion dollars!


Organization: A Trend Emerges

Steve Andriole

How many of us wrestle with the question "who should report to whom?" several times a year? Have your efforts to "reorganize" the business-technology relationship been proactive or reactive? Often, because some influential people complain about the relationship, things change. But reactive changes usually don't last long.


Organization: A Trend Emerges

Steve Andriole

How many of us wrestle with the question "who should report to whom?" several times a year? Have your efforts to "reorganize" the business-technology relationship been proactive or reactive? Often, because some influential people complain about the relationship, things change. But reactive changes usually don't last long.