The Optimization Review, typically two days, is designed to identify the most promising opportunities for change by identifying what separates a company from the norm. Areas in which an organization's capabilities are better or worse than the average represent terrific areas of opportunity. The successful processes/approaches that are already working in the organization can be propagated.

The offshore outsourcing specialists on Cutter Consortium's team are prepared to lead trips to India, Poland, or other countries, for client companies that are investigating offshore opportunities. The Consortium will prequalify service providers, highlighting those that have the capability to meet your requirements. We can then create an itinerary, saving you preparation time, and do preliminary onsite due diligence for you.

The amount of money at stake in any large negotiation is staggering. Buying an enterprise application — even if you take the SaaS route — can cost millions of dollars; and the ensuing systems integration can cost four times the purchase price plus require negotiating with yet another vendor! And with outsourcing, whether for only one project or your entire IT function, the ongoing costs (many of them hidden) can be enormous.

Take advantage of the opportunity to take a more thorough look at how efficient and productive your software development efforts are ... and can be. The most pragmatic approach to discovering opportunities for improvement is to conduct a benchmarking effort. A streamlined benchmarking program will enable you to determine which processes are working well and which are not.

The breadth, depth, and volatility of the knowledge required to deliver world-class information systems is truly daunting. Learning more efficient ways to find, access, and use the expertise of people both inside and outside one's own organization can increase the effectiveness of your application delivery management. Our Senior Consultants help you determine where and how to target your knowledge management efforts, and help you outline a program to measure those efforts.

Establish Your Own Strategic Planning Team

Cutter can advise firms on best practices in IT risk management and board-level governance of IT. This can include guidance in establishing and operating an IT Oversight Committee, how to ensure the committee's effectiveness, pitfalls to avoid, and roles and responsibilities for executives including the CIO and CEO.

There are a multitude of data protection regulations and laws with training and awareness requirements, and it is important organizations provide effective education that fits their unique organization requirements.

Bob Benson presents a comprehensive set of tools for managing all of the financial aspects of IT. He will educate your organization in how to apply IT Financial Management information so it can successfully manage corporate and IT capital and operating budgets.

Through a qualitative and quantitative evaluation of your architecture and organization, Cutter's maturity assessment program provides a relative comparison of the organization to industry norms and identifies strengths and areas needing attention. Cutter's approach to architecture assessment is to first understand the goals and drivers of the architecture program and then to evaluate the initiative in terms of meeting those goals.