Dorota Zimnoch is an international fintech and insurtech expert, ranked in the Top 20 in the InsTech Power 100, PwC Global Power 100, and Woman in Finance Power 100. As a founder of Zing Business Consulting, Ms. Zimnoch advises corporate boards and focuses on business transformations and turning digital disruption into market-winning solutions allied to effective and high-quality implementation. She gained her experience working with leading financial brands such as Citi, AIG, Alico, MetLife, and 4finance, aswell as startups. Ms. Zimnoch is also a Strategic Adviser and the Fintech and…
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Kevin Brennan is a business architect and Professor at George Brown College, Canada. Mr. Brennan is best known for leading the creation and development of the Guide to the Business Analysis Body of Knowledge (BABOK® Guide) and other business analysis standards and was the lead author of Digital Product Management, available from BCS Learning. He has a Master's in Corporate Entrepreneurship and Innovation from Penn State and holds several industry certifications in business process and project management. He can be reached at kevin@newba.com.…
Charalampos Z. Patrikakis is a Professor in the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering at the University of West Attica (UniWA), Greece. He is also Director of UniWA’s Computer Networks & Services Research (CoNSeRT) Lab. Dr. Patrikakis has more than 100 publications in book chapters, international journals, and conferences and has made two contributions to national legislation. He is a senior member of IEEE, Associate Editor responsible for special issues in IEEE’s IT Professional, and counselor of IEEE’s student branch at UniWA. Dr. Patrikakis has acted as…
It's not an overstatement to say Lean thinking is all about customer value. Anything that does not create customer value is waste and should be eliminated.
July 7, 2016 | Authored By: Steve Bell
Sunita Lodwig is a Professor in information technology at the University of South Florida (USF), Sarasota-Manatee. Prior to academia, she worked in the corporate arena for more than 20 years in the field of telecommunications (with AT&T Bell Labs and Motorola). At USF, Dr. Lodwig shares her industry experience and insight to illustrate and explain complex concepts. For the last 12 years, she has been instrumental in developing and expanding USF’s IT program as well developing relationships with local industry and businesses to support an internship program. She can be reached at …
Bill Phifer is a Fellow at HP Enterprise Services, with responsibility for service assurance and service management strategies for Applications Management Services. He is an SEI-certified CMMI Lead Appraiser with over 35 years in IT, including 18 years in software process implementation and improvement, measurement, service management, and project management. Mr. Phifer is also a Lead Evaluator for Carnegie Mellon University's eSourcing Capability Model for Service Providers (eSCM-SP),…
Understanding individuals and how they interact with each other is one of the key priorities of Agile.
September 1, 2016 | Authored By: Bhuvan Unhelkar
Business continuity planning, information security governance, and IT governance are critical activities in managing the operations of today’s organizations. Traditionally, these areas have been handled as separate and distinct activities. Effective organizations can no longer afford to manage these activities separately if they wish to streamline planning, guarantee adequate response to business-impacting events, and control costs.
February 18, 2016 | Authored By: Philip Wisoff
Philip O’Reilly is a Cutter Expert and Professor of Financial Technologies and Information Systems at Cork University Business School, University College Cork (UCC), Ireland. He is the Science Foundation Ireland (SFI)–approved Principal Investigator of FINTECHNEXT, a multiyear, multimillion Euro research collaboration between UCC and Fexco. Dr. O'Reilly is also Senior Visiting Fellow at the University of New South Wales Business School, whose Information Systems & Technology Management group ranks fourth in the world by the Association for Information Systems (AIS) for publications in…
Karolina Marzantowicz acts as a technical executive, advisor, and catalyst who fosters curiosity to help lead the adaptation of rapidly changing IT environments and drive organizational agility. She bridges the technology, business innovation, and psychology worlds. Ms. Marzantowicz has been supporting companies in driving complex digital transformations; building and executing high-growth strategies; introducing emerging technologies; supporting innovative products and services for global international brands; as well as fostering hacking growth with startups around the world. She…
Jamie Griffin is a Senior Manager within Dell EMC Global Business Services, with over 10 years of professional experience in the technology industry. He is responsible for a team of 24 people across theglobe and currently manages Dell EMC’s Risk & Receivable Portfolios. A B.Comm graduate of University College Cork (UCC) and active member of the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants (CIMA), the Shared Services & Outsourcing Network (SSON), and the Irish Institute of Credit Management (IICM), Mr. Griffin is currently pursuing an MSc. in digital business from UCC. His…
Łukasz Paciorkowski is Principal Architect and cofounder of Architects for Business, an independent group of technical professionals on a journey to digitize the world. He focuses on translating business visions into technical solutions, particularly in the areas of the Internet of Things (IoT), cloud, mixed reality, and digitization. Previously, Mr. Paciorkowski worked at Accenture as Senior Manager and IoT Domain Lead, where he combined strategy, business, and technology views to create end-to-end engagement plans for global corporations from multiple industries; and at IBM as Executive…
Lori A. Damiano has fourteen years of experience in supporting strategic, regulatory compliance, and facility planning engagements for healthcare clients in both the private and public sectors. Ms. Damiano is skilled in data analysis, market analysis, research, project management and transforming data into strategic information. This background serves as a foundation to support client decision-making in a wide range of planning projects. Previously, Ms. Damiano was a senior staff member at Noblis. She received an MBA from Regis University.
Jagdish Bhandarkar is a technology geek with 20+ years' industry experience with various Fortune 500 companies. He is the CTO at SLK Software Services, responsible for driving the company’s technology vision of continuously enhancing innovation on behalf of customers at a global scale. Dr. Bhandarkar has authored various articles for journals and conferences. He earned a master’s degree in engineering and a PhD from MIT. Dr. Bhandarkar is an alumnus of the Indian Institute of Management Calcutta, India, and graduated from Mangalore University, India. He can be…
The use of vendor panels has been standard practice in business and government for some time; indeed, you probably don’t give it much thought. However, panels are grossly underutilized, despite receiving the highest “very satisfied” score with customers relative to sole sourcing (single suppliers) and head contracting (prime contractors with subcontractors).
Explaining the poor utilization of panels is not so simple. There are a myriad of traps that organizations fall into. This Executive Update explains the common traps and provides the tricks to leverage your use of panels.
February 22, 2016 | Authored By: Sara Cullen
Annie C. Bai, CIPP/US, CIPM, is a graduate of NYU School of Law. Ms. Bai is Privacy Counsel at Single Stop, a national anti-poverty nonprofit and speaks on modern privacy law for New Directions for Attorneys at Pace Law School. She consults with for-profit and notfor-profits on privacy and data security on privacy audits in a variety of industry sectors. Ms. Bai is a member of the Technology Operations Committee for Per Scholas, an IT workforce training nonprofit. She can be reached at anniecbai at me dot com; Twitter: @AnnieCBai.
Whynde Kuehn is a Cutter Expert, a member of Arthur D. Little’s AMP open consulting network, and Managing Director of S2E Transformation Inc. She is also a Fellow at the Institute for Digital Transformation and author of the book Strategy to Reality. Ms. Kuehn is passionate about bridging the gap between strategy and execution. She has extensive experience in enterprise transformation and planning and was a key player in one of the largest business transformations in the world. Ms. Kuehn has developed and taught comprehensive, large-scale business architecture training programs.…
In this issue of The Cutter Edge: Digital Transformation Modeling | Agile Thinking | IoE and Security
August 9, 2016 | Authored By: Cutter Consortium
Danette McGilvray is President and Principal of Granite Falls Consulting, Inc., a firm that helps organizations increase their success by addressing the information quality and data governance aspects of their business efforts. Focusing on bottom-line results, Ms. McGilvray and her team promote the intentional management of information assets with the same rigor used to manage other company assets such as products and human and financial resources. A skilled facilitator, program, and project manager, she has worked with people in all levels of the organization and from all functional areas…
Architects are moving from single frameworks to instead work with a set of frameworks -- each finely tuned to serve a particular purpose. This new report by Roger Evernden explores a simple and pragmatic approach to developing a set of architectural frameworks that can evolve and be used as a constant guide to direct and manage EA. (This report is complimentary for Cutter Members. To purchase, please click the button below.)
August 9, 2016 | Authored By: Roger Evernden