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.
Who Owns Strategy? Everyone
Meeting Business-Driven IT Requirements
Meeting Business-Driven IT Requirements
Cybersecurity Communication Primer
Thinking Counts When It Comes to Strategy
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.
Leveraging IT and Data Management
Software Quality Certification
Supply Chain Intelligence: Development Issues (Part VII)
Improve Your Chances of Becoming Agile: Part I
Improve Your Chances of Becoming Agile: Part II
Agile Requirements Approaches
Business Technology Management: Annual Overview of 2002
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
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:
More on Business Process Change
Business Process Change
The Role of Program Management for BI
Business Process Outsourcing: An Emerging Business Strategy
Business process outsourcing (BPO) is a corporate strategy that is gaining in popularity.
Business Process Outsourcing: An Emerging Business Strategy
Business process outsourcing (BPO) is a corporate strategy that is gaining in popularity.
Funding: Who Pays the Technology Bills?
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
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
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.

