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The Virtual Team Is the New Team: Get Ready to Manage It

In this issue of Cutter Benchmark Review, we tackle the topic of virtual teams and their management. Like any team, virtual teams are groups of individuals with shared objectives and shared responsibilities. Unlike traditional or colocated teams, though, virtual teams draw members from multiple locations and thus cannot easily meet face-to-face.
June 30, 2006 | Authored By: Gabriele Piccoli

IT Trends 2010: IT Shop Holds Own in Turbulent Economy

  This month's installment of Cutter Benchmark Review is the fifth effort in our yearly series on IT trends and technologies for the coming year. As you know if you have been following CBR, at the beginning of every year we ask our practicing and academic contributors to take stock of current trends. Based on our benchmarking survey of investment priorities, we ask them to explain the results and extrapolate some guidelines for our readers on how to tackle the new year in the IT shop.
December 31, 2009 | Authored By: Gabriele Piccoli

Enterprise Mashups: Time to Get Down to Business

This issue of CBR was very interesting and a lot of fun to write. The topic, mashups, is cutting edge and receiving substantial attention -- at least in its most visible substantiation of consumer mashups -- and it is one of the engines of the Web 2.0 trend.
February 29, 2008 | Authored By: Gabriele Piccoli

Enterprise Mashups: How to Leverage One of the Engines of Agility

Mashups are one candidate gaining increasing attention. It is therefore a perfect time for us to produce an issue on this topic to provide you, our readers, with the conceptual framework, the vocabulary, and an overview of the issues surrounding this emerging approach to enterprise business and data integration.
February 29, 2008 | Authored By: Gabriele Piccoli

Strategic IT Planning: Making the Most of Limited (and Valuable!) Resources

In this issue of CBR, we set out to examine the ways in which strategic IT planning influences the value that IT delivers to the organization, as well as the degree to which the planning process is perceived to affect organizational outcomes and results. With this focus, we can both benchmark the planning process itself and, at the same time, tackle the question of its relationship to IT value. Given the current and ongoing economic struggles facing businesses both large and small around the world, this seemed like an excellent time to discuss the value of strategic IT planning.
February 11, 2011 | Authored By: Gabriele Piccoli

Web 2.0: A New Approach to the Web ... Or Not?

In an effort to take stock of this growing phenomenon -- and the surrounding propaganda -- and in an effort to provide you with some unbiased no-hype analysis and guidance, we focus this issue of Cutter Benchmark Review on Web 2.0. Our academic contributor on this installment is Joseph Feller, a Senior Lecturer of Business Information Systems at University College Cork (Ireland). Providing our view from the trenches of business is Tom Welsh, a Senior Consultant with Cutter Consortium's Enterprise Architecture advisory service and former Editor of Cutter Consortium's monthly Web Services Strategies. Together, Joe and Tom pool their years of experience and do a great job dissecting the Web 2.0 phenomenon in all its facets.
January 31, 2007 | Authored By: Gabriele Piccoli

Taking Action During an Economic Decline: Strategies for the IT Team

This month's Cutter Benchmark Review, taking its inspiration from the current economic situation, termed by many the "great recession," tackles management in a crisis. Amidst all the turmoil, IT shops within firms and governmental institutions have to keep the operations humming while contributing to the survival of the organization. Setting the course for the IT function in a financial and economic storm is a subject that requires insight from some special contributors. We have assembled one of the best duos of CBR contributors since I took over editing of the publication in 2006. On the academic side we have Dorothy Leidner, the Randall W. and Sandra Ferguson Professor of Information Systems and Director of the Center for Knowledge Management at Baylor University (USA). On the practitioner side, we have one of my favorite IT leaders: Tom Murphy, Senior VP and CIO of AmerisourceBergen, a US $54 billion wholesale distributor of pharmaceuticals and related healthcare products.
January 31, 2010 | Authored By: Gabriele Piccoli

Kanban for Project Management: Should We Buy In?

The adoption of a new project management methodology as part of our business practices is always somewhat of a gamble. Will it work? Will it be an improvement over the processes we currently have in place? Will the time, energy, and resources that we invest now in implementing it prove worthwhile in the long run? These are all questions each of us as IT and business professionals must consider as we make decisions to move our organizations forward. Keeping operations humming along in the face of change and (sometimes) major budget crunches and keeping business practices current and in line with industry practices and technology progress are perhaps the greatest ongoing challenges we face. In this issue of Cutter Benchmark Review, we discuss one of the most recent methodologies to enter the spectrum of possible choices for systems development: Kanban.
August 31, 2010 | Authored By: Gabriele Piccoli

Changing Workforce Demographics: Making the Most of the New Generation

In this issue of Cutter Benchmark Review, we do our part in unlocking the mystery of Gen-Yers/Net-Geners. We examine the powerful trend toward further integration of technology into everyday productivity and the creative processes of this highly innovative generation. Plus, we discuss ways in which we can successfully integrate these individuals into our organizations to the benefit of all involved.
July 31, 2010 | Authored By: Gabriele Piccoli

Creating and Managing the Agile Enterprise

This issue focuses on the management of the agile enterprise and on understanding how organizations can facilitate and foster agile practices through investments in IT infrastructure and technology practices. As such, the survey our contributors crafted tackles issues of strategy, relative positioning and competition, as well as technology infrastructure, software development methodologies, and IT architecture.
March 31, 2008 | Authored By: Gabriele Piccoli
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