In each free biweekly edition of The Cutter Edge, you'll find research, insight, and advice crucial to helping you navigate the spectrum of challenges facing business executives. From the impact of technology change to the impact your organization has on the environment; ways to improve corporate culture; how to make innovation a differentiator, and more, The Cutter Edge hits upon all the diverse business and technology strategy issues today's executives are facing.
Recent Issues
The Cutter Edge: Survival of the Fittest, Software Delivery Talent Wanted, Industry 4.0 Skills Shortage
In this issue, you'll discover why it's survival of the fittest in the digital game, why software delivery talent is so hard to find, how to meet the challenges of the skills shortage, and more!
The Cutter Edge: Be Cautious of AI Consequences, 6 Steps to Design Thinking, CX Survey Results
In this edition of The Cutter Edge, explore the how the growth of AI technology implemention has also increased our our awareness of its negative, unintended consequences; the six key steps to a design thinking mindset; whether or not CX practices are living up to expectations, and more.
The Cutter Edge: Today's Best Architecture, What's Hindering CX Efforts, Bookstore Event, On-Demand BA Webinar
This edition of The Cutter Edge discusses how architecture should no longer aim to provide robust, detailed frameworks for mandated solutions and componentry but instead should focus on strong general design principles.and provide guardrails for security, scalability, availability, etc. It also reveals the factors hindering CX management inititatives, according to a recent Cutter survey.
The Cutter Edge: Prepare a Security Incident Response Plan, Span the Customer/Work Gap, Fall Bookstore Sale
In this edition of The Cutter Edge, you'll explore a multi-pronged approach to creating a strategic incident response plan focusing on continuous process improvement, learn what a team has to do to span the gap between its work and the customer market, and more!
The Cutter Edge: Building Performance Capabilities, Addressing the Skills Crisis, Pushing Beyond Status-Quo
This edition of The Cutter Edge explores what it takes to push beyond the status quo and achieve high-performance results, how to address the skills crisis, how to facilitate strategy execution with BA, and more!
The Cutter Edge: Business Architects and Storytelling, Enabling Early Tech Adoption, Innovation Model Differentiators
In this week's The Cutter Edge: Find out how business architects play a vital role as guides in an organization’s transformation story, explore the common elements/steps organizations should consider to deliver value to core businesses or to new markets, and identify the current and future state of disruption among industries.
The Cutter Edge: Digital Transformation in Regulated Industries, Transparency: A Success Story, Cognitive Enterprise Vision
In this week's The Cutter Edge: three questions those in regulated industries should consider to help kick-start their digital transformation efforts; how a company established a fully transparent information system to enable company-wide decision-making; and what it takes to become a cognitive or highly adaptive enterprise.
The Cutter Edge: Power of Dissent, High-Quality Idea Generation, Innovation Models Across Industries
In this issue of The Cutter Edge we explore the idea of allowing and encouraging dissent in organizations, four best practices that can help address innovation challenges, and innovation models across industries.
The Cutter Edge: Leveraging BA Visuals, Automating Software Development, Strategy Execution's Secret Weapon
In this week's edition of The Cutter Edge, we'll explore how to leverage visuals to make your BA initiatives more effective, and examine the five technologies that could help automate your software development efforts.
The Cutter Edge: Comprehensive Digital Marketing, Out-of-the-Box Agile, Architecting Digital Transformation
This issue of The Cutter Edge explores a comprehensive vision for digital marketing, new applications of out-of-the-box agile, upcoming webinars, calls for papers, and architecting digital transformation.
The Cutter Edge: Sustainable Agility Through HR, Ensuring Analytics Success for Leaders
This issue of The Cutter Edge explores strategies for sustainable agility, and the technical, process, and people challenges that must be overcome to achieve analytics project success.
The Cutter Edge: Architecture and Toys, 4 Design Thinking Success Stories, Is Software Eating the World?
In this Cutter Edge: Will architecture be ready when our toys come alive? Four success stories about design thinking for digital transformation. Call for Papers: Is software eating the world? Why using a business architecture and value delivery–based approach to digital strategy is critical.
The Cutter Edge: Agile Reboot, 4 Innovation Models, Digital Architecture Webinar
In this edition of The Cutter Edge, you'll discover some core agile concepts that are being applied in non-software settings, 4 models for breakthrough innovation, and how to achieve sustainable digital transformation.
The Cutter Edge: Playing the Infinite Game, Blockchain Opps, Digital Architecture, CX, Cutting Edge Agile
Architects need to be incremental in their build-outs, so they may win the battle in the finite game of a single capability. But looking to the future is critical for an enterprise's success. What kind of management and architecture practices are needed to go the distance and play the infinite game? Find out in The Cutter Edge.
The Cutter Edge: Agile Leveraging AI, Automation Challenges, Cutting Edge Agile, CFP Industry 4.0
It's Agile's turn to leverage the benefits of AI. But how? AI can significantly enhance team performance with data collection and analysis, and provide Agile coaches with the insight they need to steer team efforts in the right direction.
The Cutter Edge: Business Architecture for Non-Profits and Small Businesses, AI and Agile Teams, Security and Privacy Fallout
Although the values and focus of for-profit and nonprofit organizations may differ, Cutter Senior Consultant Whynde Kuehn suggests that employing a business architecture from the very beginning can help any type of organization avoid challenges as it begins to scale, transform, and improve.
The Cutter Edge: Growing Use of Drones, Why You Need a Semantic Business Model, Webinars, Bookstore Sale
It's a good bet the future will include our coexistence with drones in the sky similar to that of motor vehicles on land, says Cutter Senior Consultant Helen Pukszta.
The Cutter Edge: Six Rules for Managing Analytics, CX Technology Trends, Achieving Organizational Balance
Cutter Fellow Vince Kellen discusses the six new rules of analytics and the technologies that enable them. He encourages organizations to embrace these rules and shift their cultures to ensure that data and information are shared assets.
The Cutter Edge: Improve Risk Monitoring, Key Business Priorities, Ambidextrous Organizations
Tom Teixeira, George Simpson, and Immanuel Kemp discuss how to use key risk indicators and provide a series of steps executives should take to improve risk monitoring ... and more.
The Cutter Edge: Technology Trends, CEO Lost in Space and Time, Breakthrough Innovation
Discover the 7 technologies you should pay attention to in 2019 ... and more.
The Cutter Edge: Cloud and Shadow IT, Merging Agile and DevOps, CX Management Research
Cloud has enabled a shadow IT to emerge. That sounds scary (mostly to IT people) right? But we have also learned that shadow IT is not totally a bad thing, as long as there is communication, coordination, architecture, and governance.
The Cutter Edge: Accelerating Product Time-to-Market, Data Democratization Challenges, Industrial Agile Webinar
Why does it take so long (years, even decades!) to get a new product out of the manufacturing plant? Learn how to drastically reduce that time to delivery by applying Agile principles to physical product development.
The Cutter Edge: Identifying the Agile Product Owner, AI Powering Supply Chains, Industrial Agile
When using agile methods, the product owner is the voice of the customer, deciding on the delivered content of a release and prioritizing the features. Let's take a look at who the fills the role of product owner as well as their roles and responsibilities.
The Cutter Edge: Industrial Agile, Intrapreneurship, CX Research, Cloud Computing
Compared to software, industrial delivery takes longer, is more complex, and requires a broader set of skills. Explore how the principles of Scrum can help manufacturers realize more efficiencies in the production process.
The Cutter Edge: Hybrid Cloud, 5 Key Innovation Success Factors, Customer Experience Research, Automation
A hybrid cloud — a public and private cloud duo — combines two different implementations of a similar capability. As such, a hybrid architecture makes it possible to introduce elements of the future while respecting investments of the past.